The first day of the PWA started with ideal conditions. The forecast for the next week is perfect:
The opening ceremony was at 6 pm after the day's competition and included a parade with drums and all the Pros walking down the street and up to the stage.
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Kiri Thode is on fire and undoubtedly so far ahead of the pack. Gollito's reign is over by the looks of it. Kiri's performance is obviously best and he is followed, after a gap, by 4 or 5 others who are also awesome and then there's another gap between them and the rest. Kiri will definitely be World Champion this year! The moves are executed flawlessly. There was an amazing back to sail, fully powered gybe, lots of switch stance, one handed, clew first variations and combinations of all the moves - vulcans, spocks, konos, flakas...
Kiri
We had a great day of windsurfing too now that there's finally some wind! Got a shot of the lucky Severne sailors - Dieter Van Eyken in the photo with my son Alex and wife Anna.
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Great shot of Alex jumping - looks like he's jumping over Andy "Bubble" Chambers!
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The women's final winner's heat ended up with Lorne Treboux losing to Sarah Quita in the first elimination.
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There were 16 men's heats after the wild cards competed against each other to enter the first elimination. In the final men's heats, Taty and Kiri fought it out in the men's winner's final and Goletto fought it out with Steven van Broeckhoven in the loser's final.
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