West Coast Paradies

Once again,-and for that time finally at the beginning of the season I am back in Western Australia.
Juhuuuu!! After two weeks in Mauritius I flew directly to Perth with a 7hrs flight. Pretty easy going.
A good friend of mine- Stian- was already in Perth, just waiting for me to go up north again with his fully equipped camping car.... So in a three days time we made it back up to the "G-Spot" of the West coast. This time an incredible confortable trip!
At our arrival we were immediately welcome with a huge- I mean huge- swell!!!
This spot looked totally different then later in the season. The tide was scary low 8 like it is many times in september)- the reef clearly visible- and the waves were not only biiig, but massive!!!!!!! I went straight out sailing! Took me some time though to get used to this "New Place". the wave was sometimes really really sucky, Bubbles coming up all of a sudden and some broken gear was seen that day. Fortunately not mine...maybe i took it too easy...
The first three weeks up there were just great. Temperatures still very nice, not too hot, big waves, good surf, a second HUGE Swell. and tons of wales passing by on her way down south.
Now we are on a shopping trip back down in Carnarvon, getting food for another three weeks in Paradies!!
How much I love this place!!!!!

So next news will be at the end of my trip....
Hope you all had a good summer!
ULI

Sumbawa Story online!!

Hallo!
Finally i can announce that my story from my trip to sumbawa is online under:

http://www.windsurfersmag.de

enjoy!!

Surfing and Kiting time in Mauritius

Hi!
Already ten days in Mauritius now. Having a great time. Unfortunately the swell never has the right size. Either it is dead flat- thats when it is kiting time for me...funny and quick to learn...
Or..yesterday the swell picked up to a 3.8m and 18seconds period. All channels in Le Morne were closed and we had a great day surfing in Tamarin!!
Still Paradies here. The evening ended with some great Barbecue!!

Mauritius once more...

Uli in One Eye

Babsy Table Top



Hi!
I arrived here in Mauritius with my friend Babsy Strasser one week ago.
We are sharing a great time here!
Although the swell is not the biggest at the moment we had already good sessions in Manawa, One eye and some jumping on the little reef. Also getting on my kite some more when it is really flat and practising some jumps,- getting in the waves with the kite is not far away anymore..
Some more days to wait and it will get really biiiiig again! Enjoy life!
ULi

Pics Pozo

Hallo !
Finally I got some more pics from the Comp in Pozo, Gran Canaria ( thanks to John Carter) and some days sailing in Fuerteventura! In the meantime I am back home in Austria since one week. Nice weather. Back in the mountains. Mountainbiking, climbing, next week in internship on the surgery departement of an hospital in Linz. For short time serious again.....

Gran Canaria Worldcup is over...

Hallo!

Finally I give you some updates about my contest in Pozo, Gran Canaria. I was quite crestfallen after the results- but now I am finally back on my computer...
This year i only did the wave- comp.
The days before the competition we had really good sailing in Ojos de Garza and also in Pozo. Nice waves and i felt pretty good for the comp. although i did not sail for a long time..
the waveriding started straight away on the first day of competition. Waves were a smaller than the days before, but ok for Pozo.
In my first heat I was against Laure Treboux- the amazing freestyle sailor.
I got a nice wave right at the beginning,rode it and tried to hit the endsection...but too close to the rocks...And up there I was. On the nice slippery pozo rocks, right in the onshore corner of the bay..like a turtle. Not soo nice..I spent 3-4 min there until I made it back on the water after the set. Still had a good forward and a tabletop and another waveride- which I maybe did a little bit on the secure side..Actually I thought it would still be enough to advance as Laure is not the big jumper. But concerning the judges it was not. I was quite broken after that, but tried to keep myself head up for the duoble elimiation to come back!!
then the waiting game began......6 days without any waves. the wind getting stronger and stronger each day- and still flat.
I got a little impatient those days to be honest. Sitting on the beach in that wind killed me- and not geting to sail alot, as the bay was " closed" for the freestyle and slalom sailors..Maybe I lost focus a bit. That´s not really me , as normally i am quite competitive- do not know what happened..maybe still sad about the result in the single.
Finally on the second last day we could conplete the double.
I won my first heat against the Isreal girl: Lee-el Kortsiz, but not with a good performance to be honest. The next heat I was against Junko Nagoshi from Japan. that was a pretty hard seeding right at the beginning of he double. I could have beat her with a relly good perfromance.- But I missed out a second jump. I had a solid forward, but did not find enough steep ramps. Had a crashed backllop, but no safe tabletop....Too bad. Out! Over for me. With a ninth place. How bad!
My worst result since i am doing competitions...
Guess it was a mental problem here. did not figure it out yet...

Now i am a week on fuerteventura. Easy nice wavesailing with 4.7m, a bit of kiting, visiting friends...good for the soul!!

Here some pics- hope I get the new pics from Pozo soon!
ULI

Some memories-Slideshow from Australia

Hi there!

Here in Pozo we did already the first single elimination yesterday....Conditions were "so-so". Windy for my 3.7m, in the morning still some nice waves, getting smaller and smaller when the tide came in. Riding small waves seems not to be my strong suit.....dropped out far too soon. Now I can only give my best in the double elimination and make my way back!!!!
Let´s hope for some waves in the next days to have a fair competition for everybody!!
Today there was only slalom racing for the men. Antoine Albeau still on the TOP!!
In the meantime- getting bored today in the stones here- I sorted out some pics of my trip this winter to Australia...some better waves..Enjoy!