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wSaturday, January 15, 2005 | |
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Indoor - Iballas super grubby The opening day of the London Indoor Windsurfing Championships has launched the 2005 PWA World Tour in radical style. The crowds that have flocked to the London Boat Show were treated to some of the most radical action ever seen in the indoor arena with massive back loops off the jump ramp, nail biting competition on the slalom course and outrageous never seen before in the indoor moves on the freestyle pool.  
Iballa - huge backloop; Daida leads the racing Almost inevitably, it was a Moreno who staked their claim on the number one slot in womens freestyle, but for once it was Iballa, not Daida who sailed to victory. Despite some nice flat water forwards from Daida and an excellent vulcan from Nayra Alonso, Iballa secured her place at the top with a superb grubby that she exited so fast she only just manage to stay in the pool. The womens slalom final saw sibling rivals, Iballa and Daida Moreno (Mistral, North) go head to head on the seventy meter pool. Dominant once again, Daida repeatedly out-gybed her sister to finish clean ahead and back in her usual number one slot. Spurred on by earlier success, it was a new revitalized Iballa Moreno (Mistral, North) who was the first to rack up serious points in the womens jump landing a massive forward. Daida Moreno then continued to trade blows with her sister, doing her best to match the example that Iballa set. The icing on the cake for Iballa was the almost clean back loop that chalked up a massive score and left her untouchable as the queen of the pool so far here in London.  
Nayra Alonso - great talent in the pool; Taty Frans - first indoor air chachoo ever In the mens competition Taty Frans (Starboard, Gaastra) was really pushing the limits, nearly completing an air-chachoo (duck gybe forward loop) off the ramp. Once again however, it was consistency and experience that paid off and with a perfect planning back loop combined with a tweaked table top, it was Angulo who showed he still has what it takes to be number one. After the opening tasters of today, there can only be more to come in what is expected to be a radical display on front of packed crowds here in London. Tickets for the show are still available, but for those not lucky enough to make it to London, you can check out the action live, in full screen Technicolor, on www.high.tv. photos: PWA/Carter posted by editors at 1/15/2005 11:21:00 AM |
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