Samsung Mobile Indoor Windsurfing – Day 1
Saturday April 15, 2006
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The show kicked off with freestyle in the massive pool. Nicolas Akgazciyan (F-400, RRD/ Neil Pryde) convincingly demonstrated to the world that is truly is the undisputed indoor freestyle king by winning yet another elimination of indoor trickery. With a big scoring funnell and an amazing one handed switch chachoo 540 landing him a staggering 31 points, the Frenchman was on fire leaving the competition behind. Kevin Mevissen (H-79, JP/ Neil Pryde) celebrated his first ever indoor contest with a solid second place in freestyle racking up serious points with a radical shove it spock. Third went to Marcilio Browne (BRA-105, Naish/ Naish), who would go on to have a very successful night further in the contest. In the women’s freestyle Karin Jaggi (Z-14, F2/ North Sails) had the edge over the competing riders, with Iballa Moreno (E-63, Mistral/ North Sails) coming in second and Silvia Alba (E-67) in third.
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The night was wrapped up with the main event, the jump. While the ramp initially appeared to be more challenging than the riders are accustomed to, both men an women redeemed themselves in the finals with a mindblowing repertoire of massive jumps. The men’s final was a showdown between Josh Angulo (CV-1) who now officially represents Cabo Verde, Thomas Traversa (F-3, Tabou/ Gaastra), Kauli Seadi (BRA-253, Quatro/ Naish) and Marcilio Browne (BRA-105, Naish/ Naish). Man of today’s jumping match has to be Browne, who stuck the most perfect backloops of the evening including a 30.5 one on his opening jump. Kauli Seadi (BRA-253, Quatro/ Naish) was giving his training buddy a run for his money with three huge pushloops, one perfect and two unprecedented one footed pushloops that the Brazilian nearly stuck. Browne secured his victory with a big one footed forward. Angulo kept pushing for the one handed backloop and came remarkably close twice, but it wasn’t enough to bring him the win. Browne went for the jackpot on his final run with a double forward, but didn’t quite get the second rotation around. Still it was more than enough to bring him his first indoor jumping elimination victory.
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All results are posted below. The action continues tomorrow, so makes sure to stay tuned to www.pwaworldtour.com for the second and final day of the Samsung Mobile Indoor Windsurfing 2006.
MEN’S JUMP RESULTS
WOMEN’S JUMP RESULTS
MEN’S SLALOM RESULTS
WOMEN’S SLALOM RESULTS
MEN’S FREESTYLE RESULTS
WOMEN’S FREESTYLE RESULTS
