Dag 1 in Mauritius voor zowel de freestyle als de wave riders die daar de komende 10 dagen kijken wie de beste riders zijn. Geen wave actie op One-Eye maar bij Bel Ombre, iets naar het oosten van Le Morne. Helaas is er geen live camera actie omdat het maar een level 4 event is maar er zijn wel dik 90 kiters op af gekomen. Voor Nederland zal in ieder geval Jalou Laneree voor het eerst in lange tijd weer eens deelnemen aan de GKA Wave.
Dag 1:
Good evening everyone and welcome to the Kite Globing / C-Beach Club spot at Bel Ombre in the southeast corner of the beautiful island of Mauritius. This is the second double event of three this season that will see both the Freestyle and Kite-Surf disciplines on the GKA Kite World Tour take place over the following ten days.
Stand out rider of the day was on the water in the first heat, Brazilian Pedro Matos. Smooth, powerful and confident, his vertical strikes and sense of finding the gap to get one more lip smack in as well as his ability to pick out the biggest waves of the session were very impressive.
The results were:
HEAT 1
Pedro Matos (BRA) beat Sylvester (MRU)
HEAT 1B
Charlie Wise (AUS) beat Arsenio Dias (CV)
HEAT 2A
James Carew (AUS) beat Joshua Emmanuel (SA)
HEAT 2B
Sebastian Ribeiro (BRA) beat Simon Joosten (BAR)
HEAT 3 A
Reece Myerscough (CAN) beat Ricot (MAU)
HEAT 3 B
Oswald Smith (ZAR) beat Camille Delannoy (FRA)
HEAT 4 A
Mitu Monteiro (CV) beat Martin (MRU)
HEAT 4 B
Willow-River Tonkin (MRU beat Pablo Amores (ESP)
Earlier today 91 riders from 25 nationalities registered for the GKA Kite World Cup Mauritius as follows:
Kite-Surf Men: 32
Kite-Surf Women: 20
Freestyle Men: 30
Freestyle Women: 9
The race crew put the emphasis on starting the Kite-Surf men today, with likely more of the same for Saturday and then Sunday looking more onshore and too big a swell for the southeast facing reef here to be workable for real wave riding, so better for Freestyle at that point.
There are two live event pages for the week: Freestyle or Kite-Surf depending on which discipline is running at the time, where you’ll find the liveticker of heat info.