Johara%20Sykes-Davies%20revient%20sur%20le%20PKRA%20du%20Venezuela

robbynitroz · 2008-05-09T10:37:06.000Z

Voilà un bon compte-rendu du PKRA Venezuela de la rideuse Flexifoil Johara Sykes-Davies. Une rideuse encore peu connue mais qui ne devrait pas tarder à gagner en popularité (elle ne ride que depuis 2 ans)! Désolé, encore un texte en anglais. Flexifoil, PKRA rider Johara , reports on Round 3 of the 2008 PKRA - Venezuela The third round of the 2008 PKRA was to be held in stunning Venezuela. The first day would be on the small island of Coche, with a long pristine white beach, only a couple of hotels and bang offshore wind with turquoise pond-flat water. After that the event would move onto the main island of Margarita to the beach at El Yaque. This is the home of the best freestyle windsurfers in the world and some top Venezuelan kitesurfers. The beach is lined with little restaurants and windsurf and kitesurf schools with strong cross to cross off-shore winds and choppier water than the Coche flatness! The village has a lovely, laid back vibe, all the locals are super friendly and you can get to know everyone in town within a couple of days. I spent a month training in El Yaque in the winter and loved it so was so excited when a PKRA event was announced there. I went a couple of days early to spend a day at each spot and remember how to ride there as did many of the other riders! J It was great to be back! I had a quick evening session in El Yaque the day we got there; I couldnâ€™t wait to get out!! Then I trained on Coche with Sam Light, Tom Court and Susi Mai on the first full day. It was amazing conditions with the super flat water. I was cruising happily on the 7m Ion3 even though it was quite light and the guys were on big kites. However, the only down side was the jelly fish! There were some huge ones which apparently arenâ€™t a problem, but it was the little stringy ones that you couldnâ€™t really see that really hurt!! Susi and I got stung quite a lot so took a break in the hammocks at Cocheâ€™s Flexifoil kite school, run by the amusing commentator for this event Chris, until the stings stopped hurting then we went back out for an amazing session! We discovered if you stay close to the beach there are not so many jellies, so we fared better on the later session!! I decided the next day to register in El Yaque and make the most of getting back into the choppier conditions there. It was super windy so I was on the 5m Atom08 which I was stoked about! Wednesday morning all the riders, judges and staff gathered with big kit bags in tow at the jetty at the bottom of El Yaque to catch the boat to Coche. Typically for Venezuela, the big boat which was meant to take us all over had broken down! So we hung around, catching up with where everyone had been since France and waited for the little Coche boat to ferry us over!! After a rather damp boat ride everyone started to pump up and get ready for the single elimination. Sam was up first against Alex Pastor and they both started the competition well. Sam pulled out some really good passes but Alex just won. Tom and Aaron stomped their way up the singleâ€™s heats after they had â€˜bysâ€™ for high ranking in the first round. Jo Wilson won against Audrey with some awesome powered riding but then just lost the next to Susi. I was up against Pauline Boussard who has been on Coche training for three months. I had a super good heat staying upwind by the judgeâ€™s tower the whole time. I landed the second railey to blind and then downloops and surface passes etc. Pauline took the lead in the last minute when she landed a blind judge in the bottom of the competition area but I was stoked with the heat anyway. We got through the first half of the singles with the rest to be finished the next day in El Yaque. There was then time for us all to head out for a sunset session which was AMAZING J Towards the end I landed awkward toeside and thought Iâ€™d really hurt my leg so hobbled in. Typical, on the flattest water you could get!! But it wasnâ€™t as bad as I thought and just had a strange penguin limp for one day! So the first day on El Yaque beach they finished the single eliminations and started the first round of the guyâ€™s doubles until the wind dropped off late afternoon. Poor Karolina had a bad luck double kite-mare day as she ripped her kite practicing before her heat, so borrowed Jo Wilsonâ€™s, which then deflated after a hard landing during her Karolinaâ€™s heat against Susi. It was great to see the guys were straight on the case with both Aaron and Alvaro heading straight out with kites for her. She continued her head, landed a slim chance, but unfortunately was disqualified as sheâ€™d taken the kite off the boys whilst in the competition area. Well done anyway Karolina! The singles guyâ€™s final was unsurprisingly against Kevin and Aaron. They both put on an amazing show, and despite Kevin landing the first kiteloop 7 heâ€™s landed in competition, Aaron was unbeatable. Super stoked ! Sam won his first heat of the double eliminations then the wind dropped off so

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