14 July 2008

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06 May 2008

We started this season with a new eventformat which is called the “best move” format. It was developed to make the Freestyle show more radical and to bring more action with more overview to the public. Not the amount of moves, but the difficulty and style are what the judges want to see. The moves per tack are limited to a certain amount, depending on the conditions – in Podersdorf with really light winds, the race director extended the heat duration to 10 minutes with 6 moves each tack counting and 3 discards. This means, after 6 moves each tack the judges won’t count your moves anymore…

This makes it a real tactical game… It also helps to make the competition more fair, even in really difficult conditions.

Back to my Podersdorf result… I was seeded 15^th because of my good 4^th place in the EFPT in Tarifa a month ago. In the 48 men fleet, that placed me straight into the second round – I was really happy about that, because it seemed to be really exhausting the first day as many of the heats were cancelled due to not enough wind. Anyway, the new format proofed to be working…

I met an Austrian local, Tom Föda (AUT 315), in the second round. I had a pretty good heat with Double Flaka, Shaka, Switch Chachoo…although there wasn’t really a lot of wind…. And that let me pass into the 3^rd round and set me straight against Jose “Gollito” Estredo – Freestyle World Champion 2006…

On day 5, Saturday, they ran our heat. The conditions were pretty light, but OK – It was right after a little thunderstorm passed by, so the wind shifted to north, which was very sideshore… perfect for the public to see some action very close to the shore! It was a 10 minute heat, 6 moves counting each tack with 3 discards.

Again I had a good Double Flaka, Shaka, but unfortunately was crashing in the Ponch and the Switch Flaka (not so easy with 5,8 and light wind). Anyway, what should I say, the heat duration was 10 minutes and I felt like after 5 minutes it was more than clear that Gollito would leave me no chance at all to win this heat… No doubt, he was sailing amazingly!!

PWA-pressrelease said:

“It could be argued that Roßmeier would have advanced had he been up against most other competitors, showing both depth and diversity in his routine. He was however, pitched against an on form Gollito who had no intension of being knocked out at this stage in the elimination. A no handed flaka Diablo within touching distance of the crowd sealed Roßmeier’s fate, advancing Gollito to the next round.”

Well – that was it for me… I finished in 9^th place and I am very happy with it. A good position for further PWA and EFPT events, as the seeding is always set up through your current ranking in both tours.

Now it is about going back to work!!  We are working on the next edition of the Tricktionary – the great, new Tricktionary 2 and we are in the final phase!

More news soon!

Endresult PWA Podersdorf / Austria 2008:

1. Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (Fanatic, North Sails, MFC)
2. Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Brown (Mistral, Gaastra)
3. Tonky Frans (F2, Gaastra)
4. Antxon Otaegui (JP, NeilPryde, MFC)

Pix by Sandra Schennach:

02 April 2008

After two years of bad luck with the EFPT (European Freestyle Pro Tour) competition in Tarifa in south of Spain, finally I could make it to the Event and also achieve a good result this year.

There were surprisingly good conditions during Thursday and Friday at the Eventspot in front of Camping Torre de la Pena. It was pretty strong Poniente which is side-onshore from the right. It was very wavy and pretty choppy, we were sailing on 4,7 and 5,2 fully powered up.

I won my first heat was against a brazilian newcomer Samuel Teixeira Francisco – after that I could win against another brazilian, Edvan Souza de Pedro – had some pretty good moves and could enter the 3^rd round where I was set up against Andre Paskowski from Germany, the current European Champion. Seems that it was a close decision as we both were crashing several times. I came to the beach and actually was thinking Andre won, but looking at the results, it said I advanced into the final! My first final Heat was against Kevin Mevissen from Netherlands – I was trying my best, but Kevin was too strong in this heat, which threw me into the loosers-final. There I met Antxon Otaegui from Lanzarote, a very strong sailor, to fight for the 3^rd and 4^th place. I lost this heat and finished the first single elimination in 4^th place. However, one hour later we started the double elimination. That means everybody has a second chance to advance, loose or confirm his place from the single elimination – it’s called the loosers round for the single elimination and after this “double” the result is more accurate. I could relax and wait for my next heat – somebody would come up to my position and try to beat me in a 2 man heat. I was pretty sure Andre would fight his way up and we’d have another heat together, but due to some misunderstandings in his heat against Egor Propretinsky from Russia, he missed and therefore lost his heat. But it wasn’t Egor who finally advanced through quite some heats and ended up against me – A guy from Belgium – Steven Van Broeckhoven– quite a noname on the tour until now, surprised by beating Remko de Weerd and Egor Propretinsky and therefore was set for the fight about the 4^th place against me. It was a tough heat and I crashed too many times in my switch moves, so I lost this heat and was kicked to the 5^th place. In the double elimination, every rider has to confirm his position from the single by winning one heat and advances one place by winning two or more heats. If you loose your first heat in the double you loose one place.

We tried to run another single elimination, as there was wind (Levante) on Saturday. We had almost done two rounds, but then the wind turned too far outside / offshore and was just too gusty to go on with the competition.

Anyway, with the 5^th place I am very happy. It is a good starting position for the further EFPT-events, especially for the next big Event in Podersdorf / Austria.

The final result EFPT Toro Andaluz – Tarifa
1. Normen Günzlein (G-186)
2. Kevin Mevissen (H-79)
3. Antxon Otaegui (E-169)
4. Steven Van Broekhoven (B-72)
5. Michael Rossmeier (AUT-256)

12 January 2008

Hi everybody,

Since Maui i am at home in Tirol / Austria. We had -20°C already around new year. There isn't that much snow, but it is quite cold... Well Friday and Saturday, 4th and 5th of January, there was "Foehn" here in Tirol. Strong wind from the south - it lets the temperatures get positive, the snow melts and usually it's pretty nice almost spring-weather for a few days.

However, it was not really inviting to go windsurfing, as we had just around 6°C, but i was not sailing since a month, so it was upon time... Check out my video from those 2 days...


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Don't have many moves there...it's really hard to film yourself...believe me... :)

The weird thing was, on the first day, the lake (Achensee) was half on ice! I was just sailing a few meters next to the around 10cm thick icefield. On Saturday, just one day later, ALL the ice was gone...hmm...maybe not gone completely..it was broken apart and building a 5 meter wide belt along the shoreline....

First day i was on my 5,2 360Free and IStyle 94, the wind was more constant than on the second day, when i was on 4,7 with the same board.

It is not really fun to sail, but actually - it reminds me of several really great sessions in winter at our lake. For example, I did my first 3 flakas on 26th of December some years ago at this lake!! Will never forget that...

Keep windsurfing...
ciao
Rossi