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Sato and Polakow take trophies home  We have had an amazing day here on Maui. Conditions were as good as they can get with sunshine, steady winds of 15-20 knots and PERFECTLY peeling waves. Before the eyes of hundreds of spectators the final heats were sailed, beginning with the quarterfinals of the women. Again the best two waves were scored in 20 minute heats. Iballa R. Moreno, Jennifer Henderson, Annemarie Reichmann and Karin Jaggi fought hard, but only 2 of them would make it: Karin and Jen. Then Karin won the next heat against Jen by being the more fearless, doing a huge aerial in a closed out section of the wave. With that as a warmup, she also managed to beat Jenny Ellefson, inspite of being washed out over the rocks far downwind. Yet, Karin was without a chance in the finals. Motoko Sato clearly had the better wave selection, whereas Karin broke a mast and had to give away precious minutes when waiting for Annemarie to sail out the other equipment and switching boards (the latter done in a fantastic time of 35 seconds)! Former wave champion Karin Jaggi seemed tired by that time, having sailed in every women s heat before. Still, Motoko rightfully took advantage of knowing Hookipa by heart, pulled of good aerials and won with a flawless performance. Winner of the men s competition is Jason Polakow, who won despite being in the loser s pool after the first single elimination. In everyone s eyes it was a difficult decision between Josh Angulo, who had won the single, and Polakow. We have clearly seen some of best waveriding ever in a PWA contest, with huge one-handed and incredibly tweaked aerials, upwind 360s on the face of the wave and lipslides over masthigh, gnarly sets of waves. Congratulations again to the winners and all those who had made this event happen, especially Severne Sails and the PWA organizers!    posted by Anonymous at 4/04/2004 04:53:00 AM |
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