SPANISH CHAMPION COURSE RACING 2010!!

This year is being awesome for me!! I’m getting results I Could not imagine I could get, at least so soon! It’s being only 9 months since I took the break from my job to focuss 100% on the kitesurf and here you have the results: 1st in Vietnam and Philippines in the KTA, 4th in PKRA Thailand, 2nd in KTE Austria, and SPANISH CHAMPION in Lanzarote!
And now I’m just back from Lanzarote (Canary Islands) where the Spanish Championship was held from the 6th till the 11th of July in Playa de Famara.
More than sixty riders from all over the country were registered in the event and I’m super stoked with my first place in the Course Racing event, winning 7 out of 7 races and also with the second place in Freestyle.
We had one day of no wind and another of super light conditions, which made impossible to run the doubles eliminations of waves and girls freestyle.

Here you have a few pictures from the contest.
Now I’m on the plane to St.Peter Ording (Germany) for the PKRA event which will take place from the 17th till the 25th July and where I’ll meet a few of the LF crew. I’ll keep you posted!

Getting ready for the Spanish Championship

Hey!

I'm just getting ready for the Spanish Championship. This past week I've been in St. Pere Pescador training hard for the competition. In the photo you can see all the gear i'm using this 2010: Liquid Force Havoc Kites (perfect for all styles: waves, freestyle and racing), Aura board and Aura harness, and the Flyworks racing board.
In two days I'm leaving to Lanzarote where the contest will be held from the 6th to the 11th in Famara beach. I'm really excited about it 'cos the spot is amazing, I just hope we'll have good conditions too!

Back home in St. Pere Pescador

It's been 10 days since I got back from Cape Hatteras. I miss the people i met there but It's always nice being back home and visit the family and friends. I've spent the last week in St.Pere Pescador looking for wind and training before the Spanish Championship in Lanzarote next week, but I only had 2 days of wind. I took the GoPro with me because I wanted to try it in the water and I made a small video showing my homespot, my friends and a bit of racing.
I hope you enjoy the video ;)

St.Pere Pescacar, my home spot and my people from Nuria Goma on Vimeo.

Life in Cape Hatteras

I've been here for 3 weeks now, and I have to say that the more I'm here, the more I like this place. The spot is awesome! Amazing flat water, fun waves and the best set up of sliders and kickers I've ever seen!
This is my first time in Cape Hatteras and I didn't know what to expect as this is a very popular spot in North America, but when I got here I realized this is a world class spot! I love this place!!
It's been crazy hanging up with all the LF team and with legends like Mauricio, Jason and Moe. They really push me to ride hard and motivate me to try new things as hitting sliders and kickers!!
Now I have the motivation to go back to Europe and do more of that!!

Getting to Cape Hatteras (US)

Last week I spent more hours in the airport than in my home!!
I've been traveling quite a lot lately. After Podersdorf I went home for one day before taking the next flight to Cape Hatteras, in North Carolina (US).
It was a very loooong trip as all airports were with delays and cancelled flights due to the volcano ashes.

My flight departed 1h late from Barcelona but the big surprise was that the flight lasted 2 hours more than expected as we had to go up to Amsterday to avoid the ashes. Once we landed in Newark airport we had to wait inside the plane for 40 min and after that, add 1 more hour to get through the customs. Obviously I lost my connection flight.
I met James Boulding, LF team mate, in the same flight to Norfolk, and the rest of the team happen to have also delays in their flights, so we all got to the final destination about the same time ;)
Two hours driving by car and we got to the amazing Liquid Force house in Cape Hatteras.

European Championship Podersdorf (Austria)

I just got back yesterday from wonderful Austria!! We had there the first stop of the Kitesurf European Tour, and I'm just supper happy for my results, both in freestyle and Course Racing.
I'd lide to give special thanks to Ronald and Julie for "adopting" me and treating me sooo good. Thank you guys!!
In freestyle, althought it is not my priority at all, I ended up in 4th place. I have to say that the conditions were not easy at all, as the first day, when the single elimination was done, the wind was super gusty and sometime with more than 30knots.

My great surprise was in Course Racing were I finished in 2nd place, after being 3rd the whole event. On the last day of competition, they decided to do the skippers meeting at 7am and we had the firts announcement at 8. Very light wind came but that gave me one winning race and a 2nd place on the last one, so I got a final 2nd place!!
The only bad thing about all, was that a jetski run into my 6m kite and they hat to cut the lines to relise it...
On the other hand, I'm gonna miss the next stop of the Tour as tomorrow I'm leaving to Cape Hatteras (US) for one month for a fotoshoting with all the Liquid Force Team. I'm really excited about it and I just hope Barcelona Airport will be opened tomorrow (volcano aishes). I won't miss indeed, the competition in Germany (Sylt) end of June!
So CAPE HATTERAS...here I come!!!!

Trip to North Spain

Sometimes you fly miles away looking for the perfect spot and the perfect conditions, and you don't realize you have it just next to you, in your own country!!

That is what happened to me. I've been travelling around the world the last few months, and it is true i've seen magic places, but for a while I forgot how wonderful my country is!!

One day I'll write about my kite home-spot, St.Pere Pescador (Girona), but today I wanna write about the north of Spain, specially Galicia and Santander.

I've just fallen in love with its countryside, its food and its people. We kited in O Vicedo, a small town with a huge spot in Galicia. Thanks Pablo for your hospitality, it was great seeing you after Philippines.

And on the way back home, we stopped in Liencres (Santander). You can see how perfect the spot is on the picture. For sure we're comming back!!