up and downs...

Wow, how many up and downs were we able to live in the last few days of our lifes... The good thing is that with every curve in our life we learn something new and that way we´ve just learnt like travelling in a time machine i guess.... thanx to the responsable !!!!

At the same time we are right in the middle of our We Want You Event in El Yaque.... It´s not really windy, actually no wind in the last two days, but still we´re on the water each day, for some Freestyle Basics and Sailgames.... Nice !!!!

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Windsurf Clinic El Yaque...

Today we just started our first week of the Windsurf Clinic "We want You" in El Yaque... Unluckily the windforecasts exactly for this week are not the best, but we´ll have fun and improvement anyway... And forecasts are not always right, less in so local and specific windsystems like it is at El Yaque... at least that´s what we hope :-) We will keep you updated daily with Pics and Clips... To know more about the Clinics you can just check my website Tom-brendt.de at the clinics part... see some event videos and Info....

A green Island...

Most parts of the Island of Margarita start to get brown and dry by this time of the year... but not this time... lots of rain keeps the island green as almost never before... which is really nice at one hand but also causes a bigger population of mosquitos...

At least it`s still windy, actually really windy in the last days....

Impressive how Douglas Eduardo, last year still PWA Worldcup Rider, is rippin with his core kites.... good job and hope this career will last a little longer than his windsurfing one....

El Yaque Slalom Race...

Yesterday the Club Mistral and Club Margarita organiezed a Fun Slalom Race for all Pro Sailors and Clients in El Yaque... It was really Funny and fast... also the Club Clients showed off with some really nice Boardspeeds... But in the end it was Freestyle Guru Gollito Estredo who won the race in front of Diony Guadagnino, Ricardo Campello, Andre Paskowski and co.....

Teaching : Business, Vacationjob or Passion...???

I am back for around one month now at the Island of Margarita, and after two years without teaching at Windsurfing Centers, only at my Clinics and working with people like Gollito Estredo and Yoli de Brendt, and seeing many people teaching other Windsurfers, I started asking myself what means Instructing windsurfing to me. For many it looks like it is only a Business, for some more students only a Vacation Job to pass their time at the Beach. For me it is still Passion, just loving to see new clients every day improving their Skills and getting more and more Motivation, just because you push them there.... I guess that´s what I really like at this Job, doesn´t matter if it is with high Level Freestylers or Beginners..... Thinking of different methods to teach for each person, makes it even more interesting..... I love to live my Passion and being on the water at the same time.... If you don´t do so... you should try :-)

Hope to see you on the water one day too.... hopefully with a big smile on your Face !!!!!

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About Remko, Cheo, Andre, Laure and Taty....

Remko de Weerd and Cheo Diaz just left the Fanatic Team, Cheo also the North Team, but I´m pretty sure we will see both again on Worldtour but still it´s not sure with which Equipment.

Remko

Cheo

Welcome to Andre Paskowski and Laure Treboux in the Fanatic Team and Laure and Taty Frans also in the North Team. Seems like it could be a great season for both Teams with new, young and sympathic Sailors on Tour.....Andre

Laure

About People and litter..... and wind of course....

Finally most national tourists went home, I wouldn´t say back to work because still nothing works normal, but at least the Beach is clean of Tourists, but not from the litter they´ve left for us before leaving.... So now we try to get our Beach clean for all our Windsurfing and Kitesurfing Tourists... and we got the time at the moment, since it started raining again and we might only get some stormy gusts in the next three days to bring our Boards on the water..... But anyway, we´ll have more than enough wind this winter and we had already some really nice days.... so all good !!!!! Next time I´ll have some more new action >shots for you, promised !!!!

the small difference....

Two weeks, and many pretty ignorant People within the national Tourists at one side but at the other side also some really nice people. So in the end it has been a good christmas and new Year season so far.... and we got some more of those people from both sides addicted to Ride... !!!! Just love it :-) I like the enthusiasm of some guys practising on their huge BeginnerBoards every day, just to advance as fast as they can.... Like Ari from the venezuelan Pop/Rock Band Malanga ( www.myspace.com/grupomalanga ) who is on the water each day.... I´m pretty sure they will all be back to continue with their new Sport.... See you all soon, back in El Yaque

Windgods got mad at us ???

Maybe we should have sacrified a good bottle of Rum as usual at New Years eve to our Windgod, but we didn´t and so he showed us his anger already in the early morning with a huge 5 minutes storm.... flying Kite and Windsurfers totally out of control, heavy Rainshowers... and only for a couple of minutes before he calmed down and brought the sun and some wind for our nice 5,4 sails back to el yaque bay... Thanx and sorry... next year you´ll get the best bottle we can find :-)

Happy New Year 2008 !!!!

After some really busy days and a nice New Years Night at El Yaque Beach we reached 2008 !! Let it be a great year !!! wish you all the best for the whole year and hope to see some of you very soon at one of the various spots in the world !!!!