Summer's Arrived and I’m going Loop-tastic!
Name: Lucy Robson
Age: 24yrs
Home town: Brighton
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During summer, Brighton can either be really cool and vibrant or just plan irritating as hoards of students and holidaymakers migrate here and make a usually busy town completely ram packed! Your perception is generally determinable by your mood and my outlook has been decidedly bright 'n' breezy (sorry couldn't resist) with the fantastic low pressure systems that have been sitting out in the Atlantic bringing some great south-westerly winds to our town and therefore some great windsurfing! Work has transformed itself from the repetitive dull drum to a bearable means to an end, an 8 hour stint after which I know I can head straight to the beach at 5pm and shed my lawyer disguise!
The van and I have now parted ownership and I have replaced it with a not so new car: a lively Astra Estate courtesy of my dad (he's good like that) which means I can now get to the beach in record time and stuck into the task of improving my windsurfing.
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LOOP-TASTIC
I decided that this summer is going to be the one where I learn big, clean forwards so this has been my goal. Whilst I have been having a go at these for a few months now (well in honesty, taking off, sheeting in, looking behind whilst closing my eyes and hoping that something miraculous might happen) the time had come for a little more commitment! This is when it is definitely good to be out sailing with people that are better than you. I was watching Matt Pearch at Shoreham doing perfect forwards and then he had a look at what I was doing and mimicked me.... well that was enough for me to realize that I need to be far more proactive and committed to the move that I thought!
IN FUERTEVENTURA
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| With this in mind I have been training for my next trip which is the "Roxy Girls Freestyle Training Camp" being run by Daida and Iballa Moreno and Karin Jaggi in Fuerteventura from 16 - 23 July. The string of emails I have been receiving on this tell me that (a) most of the 30 female participants are all PWA sailors and (b) I am going to get my ass whipped! However I am pretty assured that this will be an amazing experience and one that will inspire me to move up to the next level. As a girl that sails and competes in the UK you can become caught in an exclusionary mindset where unlike the men's pro fleet there is less expectation and the standard is more attainable. I am therefore totally of the opinion that it is good to broaden your horizons and check out the level of the girls sailing abroad - if nothing else than to convince you to go for those moves you had been putting off!
So my feeling was that whilst I cannot transform my sailing within a week to be ranking at PWA standard I can prepare by getting as fit as possible so at least I am not disadvantaged in the equipment department.... how I love getting up at 6am every morning to go running before work.......!!! |
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Lucy will be giving us a full report from the Girls only Freestyle Camp next issue. |
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