Non perdetevi l’intervista al double world champion Philip Köster direttamente dal KIA Cold Hawaii PWA world cup oggi venerdì 20 settembre ore 11:00. Potete inviare sulla pagina del livestream direttamente le vostre domande!
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Le previsioni per oggi rimangono pessime mentre per domani sono buone e si dovrebbe ripartire con la gara. Lo staff del PWA dopo due giornate dedicate al SUP ha deciso per oggi di promuovere una gara di pesca di altura. Parteciperanno a questa premiere: Dany Bruch, Florian Jung (Germany), Adam Lewis (Britain) e Alex Mussolini (Spain).
Duncan Coombs, PWA head judge: “No wind tomorrow, high pressure dominates, the swell should arrive Saturday night through Sunday with increasing winds and a moderate to fresh westerly airflow. The forecasts show promising conditions for the competition to be completed just before dusk on the final day.”
IL VIDEO DEL DAY 4
Matthew Pryor, l’international press officer del PWA KIA Cold Hawaii 2013, ha fatto “quattro chiacchiere” con il Campione del Mondo e attuale leader del tour wave, Philip Koster, a proposito del triplo Forward. Come più volte ho scritto Philip è l’unico in grado di eseguire perfettamente controllate due rotazioni laterali durante i suoi doppi. E questa è la strada giusta verso il triplo… le rotazione devono necessariamente essere laterali e non verticali. Non ci sono tanti altri contendenti a questa impresa, forse solo Ricardo Campello. Vi propongo l’intervista a Philip di ieri pomeriggio effettuata dallo staff del PWA.
Philip con suo papà
What’s the difference between a double and a triple in feeling safe? “It’s trying it, it’s just a mind thing. Just doing one forward (loop) is really hard, with your mind, doing the rotation and then you know also that you can hurt yourself.”
Has he hurt himself trying to do it? “Not really, just my back hitting the water hard,” he says. “I think I hurt my back on once, my vertebrae, I was twisted and I couldn’t breathe properly. I waited two days, and I thought it would be alright, but it was hurting when surfing, I think I should have been waiting longer, like two weeks. That was the week before the world cup event in Tenerfie (in August), so I was still hurting (when he won).”
He is intent on retaining his world championship title. “I don’t want to give it away,” he says, “I want to win it again and it gets tougher to win each time. I love this competition in Klitmøller, I love being her and I always want to win. You can get perfect waves sometimes, it’s pretty nice. We’ve had a lot of luck with the conditions before so I hope Saturday is still a possibility (to finish the competition).”
But the quest for the triple is what is keeping him motivated as he trains at home in Gran Canaria. Does he worry anyone will beat him there, Ricardo Campello, the flying Brazilian perhaps?
“I think Ricardo is crazy enough,” he says laughing. “He’s definitely one that could do it.” But when does this end, is there a 12-year-old whose going to do a qraduple in ten years?”.
“Well, you never know. Not so many years ago a forward was like the craziest thing. Things improve, so maybe in five years.”
Has he been doing physical training for it?
“No, no special preparation. Normally I eat a pizza before I try.”
Köster is one of those naturals often misunderstood by the rest of the world. Journalists and windsurfers looking for advice cannot fathom him – they are looking in the wrong depths. “People come and ask about the moves, but I normally don’t know how to explain them, because I don’t think about it, I don’t think about how I do it,” he says. “People don’t really believe that it’s true that I don’t think about it.”
Köster is not arrogant, he is more a shy teenager still and would prefer to be out on the water than on the Cold Hawaii sofa – though he is not ungracious. Last year after becoming world champion in Klitmøller he said: “I can make time slow down,” by way of explanation. It was not said at a boast, it was a fact.
