PWA Freestyle Fuerte-Gollito 2nd,Laure 3rd&Yoli 4th!

2008/07/28

Gollito Estredo is one step closer to the World Title! He finished a brillant second place in Fuerteventura even though he was handicapped by a serious ankle injury. Right before the event he hurt is ankle and was still competing under pain!

Gollito is still leading the overall Freestyle ranking and will be back in shape for Sylt, showing full performance again!

PWA Grand Slam Fuerteventura – Day 10, 28.07.08:

Jose Estredo overthrows Marcilio Browne to win the third and final elimination of the event!
In the women's fleet, Fanatic ladies Laure Treboux finished 3rd and Yoli de Brendt 4th, both showing off with great performances during the event!

Big congrats to all three of them!!!

Mens Freestyle Results Fuerte:
1. Marcilio "Brawzinho" Browne (BRA-105)
2. Jose "Gollito" Estredo (V-1) Fanatic
3. Ricardo Campello (V-111)

Womens Freestyle Results Fuerte:
1. Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU-91)
2. Daida Ruano Moreno (E-64)
3. Laure Treboux (SUI-4) Fanatic
4. Yolanda Freites de Brendt (V-26) Fanatic

Mens Freestyle Results after Fuerte:
1. Jose "Gollito" Estredo (V-1) Fanatic
2. Marcilio "Brawzinho" Browne (BRA-105)
3. Ricardo Campello (V-111)

Womens Freestyle Results after Fuerte:
1. Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU-91)
2. Daida Ruano Moreno (E-64)
3. Laure Treboux (SUI-4) Fanatic
6. Yolanda Freites de Brendt (V-26) Fanatic

PWA Grand Slam Fuerteventura – Day 9, 27.07.08:

Gollito´s foot is getting better and today he toppled Marcilio Browne in top form to claim the elimination win!

In the winners final, Browne sailed a solid heat, but had nothing on rival Estredo. More determined than ever, the Venezuelan threw down the biggest, and without a doubt, the best air chachoo seen all competition. Also landing a spock 900, a sky-high air flaka and a pushloop, Browne was eventually condemned to second position.

Laure Treboux was sailing against Daida Moreno in the final.

PWA Grand Slam Fuerteventura – Day 8, 26.07.08:

Marcilio Browne and Sarah-Quita Offringa fight their way to the top of the second single elimination, then fend off attacks from Ricardo Campello and Daida Moreno in the double to cement their positions at the top of the podium.
First on the day’s agenda was to finish up the second single elimination, which had been started the previous day. In the men’s fleet, this was quickly narrowed down to a semi final of Estredo (Fanatic, North, MFC) versus Browne (Mistral, Gaastra) and Tonky Frans (F2, Gaastra) versus Campello (JP, NeilPryde, MFC).
Advancing into the final, Browne defeated Estredo to take the victory, leaving Estredo in second. And in the losers final, Campello beat Frans to take third, with Frans in fourth.
In the women’s fleet, a Daida Moreno (North) versus De Brendt (Fanatic, North) and Nagoshi (Simmer, Dakine) versus Offringa (Starboard, NeilPryde) semi final, saw Offringa and Daida Moreno emerge victorious, meaning they advanced into the final. The subsequent brawl was won by Offringa, with Moreno taking second, De Brendt third, and Nagoshi fourth.
After a short break, the second double elimination kicked off. In the wings, Browne and Offringa endured their second painstaking wait, while their rivals fought for the opportunity to challenge them for first place.
In the men’s double, Otaegui (JP, NeilPryde, MFC) made the most impressive comeback, rising through four heats before he finally fell at the hands of Thode (Starboard, Gaastra). Thode then departed courtesy of Tonky Frans.
Frans went on to battle with Campello, and despite landing a super clean air chachoo, couldn’t match Campello’s crazy shuvit spock and pushloop. With the stakes getting higher, Campello advanced to duel with Estredo. The awesome heat saw air flakas from both sailors, a backloop from Campello, and a one handed air funnel from Estredo. It was a tough call to make, but Campello was ultimately rewarded with victory, meaning he’d go on to battle with Browne in a repeat of the first double elimination.
Dropping off the boil, Browne made the mistake of giving Campello a bit of breathing space. Campello seized the opportunity, landing a shuvit spock, and an air funnel to defeat Browne.
To take the elimination, Campello then had to overthrow Browne one more time. Both sailors hit the water again, but this time it was Campello who had slacked off.
Browne punished the Venezuelan’s mistakes, landing an air funnel, and a before unheard of, air cana brava. The super slick display was enough to stop Campello in his tracks, and award Browne his second successive elimination victory.
In the women’s fleet, Treboux (Fanatic, North) bulldozed her way through the opposition, leaving victims Iballa Moreno (North), Alonso (Fanatic, Severne), Nagoshi (Simmer, Dakine) and De Brendt (Fanatic, North) in the wake of her resurgence.
Her stumbling block would come when she met Daida Moreno. A barrage of loops, and fully planning sliding moves condemned Treboux to third place, while the ever-determined Moreno advanced to take on the might of Offringa in the final.
The pair were evenly matched, Offringa landed a flaka and a funnel, to Moreno’s reply of a one-footed forward, and a ponch. Right into the final minute of the heat it looked almost impossible to call a winner, then Offringa nailed an air flaka, and a flaka diablo. The moves were a killer blow for Moreno, who’d let victory escape her grasp. Winning, Offringa claimed her second elimination win of the event so far, and took one step closer to becoming 2008 World Champion.

PWA Grand Slam Fuerteventura – Day 7, 25.07.08:

Double elimination victories for Browne and Offringa earns them the early event lead, ahead of hungry second place rivals Ricardo Campello and Yolanda De Brendt.

Men’s Double Elimination:
Picking up the double elimination where it left off yesterday, Quincy Offringa’s (Starboard, Severne) run of form was halted by Leo Ray (Naish, Naish, MFC), who looked like he might go on to do big things. Unfortunately for Ray, he was on a collision course with Ricardo Campello (JP, NeilPryde, MFC) who shattered any hopes the Frenchman had of progressing further.
Ian Mouro Lemos (JP, NeilPryde) showed promise, but was shot down by Antxon Otaegui (JP, NeilPryde, MFC). However, Otaegui’s run was to be short lived thanks to crazy air chachooing Taty Frans (Starboard, North).
Frans then fell at the hand of Kiri Thode (Starboard, Gaastra), who subsequently departed courtesy of Campello, who was gaining more and more momentum with every heat, and was one of the few sailors fully utilizing the set waves for their jumping potential.
Campello’s steamroller like run remained on its course for Browne, who sat in waiting ready to defend his previous day’s single elimination victory. Next on the hit list was team mate Normen Günzlein (JP, NeilPryde), who had little in the way of a reply to Campello’s fully planning backloops, and awesome tweaked pushloops.
Moving on to battle with Tonky Frans (F2, Gaastra), Frans had some bad luck, breaking his fin moments into the heat. By the time a replacement board had been handed to him by brother Taty, the damage had already been done by Campello, who advanced to face Jose Estredo (Fanatic, North, MFC) in the next round.
The ensuing showdown was one of the most explosive heats of the competition so far. Estredo worked the crowd into a frenzy with a monster one handed air flaka, only for Campello to reply with a perfectly landed air chachoo. When the dust finally settled, defiant Campello had edged ahead on the judges’ score sheets, and finally had his shot at Browne’s throne.
Starting well, Browne looked like he’d hold off Campello, but some costly errors towards the end of the heat allowed the Venezuelan to edge ahead, meaning the pair would have to go head to head one last time to finally settle the scores.
Back on form, Browne launched a full-scale attack, which included a crazy air funnel, a huge ponch, and a monumental ten-foot high air flaka. Campello rose to the challenge with a routine that included a misty flip and a pushloop. It was always going to be a close call, but Browne’s technical and consistent run ultimately earned him the double elimination victory.

Women’s Double Elimination
With eye’s firmly set on Offringa (Starboard, NeilPryde), who sat in waiting after winning the single elimination the previous day, Daida Moreno (North) mounted a sustained attack from the depths of the elimination ladder to within touching distance of the young Aruban.
Defeating Anna Johansson (Naish, Naish), Nayra Alonso (Fanatic, Severne), Laure Treboux (Fanatic, North), and sister Iballa (North), Daida only had topple Junko Nagoshi (Simmer, Dakine) and Yolanda De Brendt (Fanatic, North) before she had a shot at Offringa’s first position stronghold.
Nagoshi piled on the pressure early with solid forward loop and a flaka, however Moreno was on devastating form. She nailed a one-footed forward loop, a clew first forward loop, and a fully planning spock to convincingly defeat the Japanese freestyler.
Lining up De Brendt in her sights, it was no longer plain sailing for Moreno. De Brendt, firing on all cylinders, threw down a puneta, a shuvit and a flaka. The comprehensive run proved too much for Moreno to match, putting a premature end to her impressive run.
Advancing, De Brendt was given another shot at Offringa. The subsequent brawl raised the bar of women’s freestyle to a whole new level. Both sailors went off, Offringa funneled, De Brendt replied with a puneta, Offringa pulled a switch stance chachoo, De Brendt nailed a fully planning spock 540. They were literally inseparable.
The decisive blow would come when Offringa executed a massive air flaka. De Brendt had no reply to the epic move, granting Offringa the victory, and the first double elimination as hers.
The day also saw inroads made into the men’s and women’s second single elimination. All the big names in the men’s fleet have advanced through to the semi finals, however contenders Andre Paskowski (Fanatic, North), Antxon Otaegui, Nicolas Akgazciyan (Starboard, Gun Sails) and Cheo Diaz (RRD, Simmer) have fallen by the wayside.

PWA Grand Slam Fuerteventura – Day 6, 24.07.08:

The strongest wind of the event so far, confused chop, and a building ground swell marked the first day of freestyle competition in Fuerteventura.

Fanatic´s Gollito & Yoli are both 2nd in the first Freestyle final! Yoli lost 1/2 point to Sara - super impressive, and also Gollito was challenging himselve competing under pain with an injured ankle in such strong wind and still finished 2nd! Big congrats to both of them!!!

Challenging Estredo, Günzlein had his work cut out to match the ex-World Champion. As always, his moves were super clean, and executed with pinpoint accuracy, but to topple Estredo you need something extra on top of a polished routine, and Günzlein just didn’t have the spice required to overthrow the Venezuelan. Estredo advanced, moving the focus of his assault onto the winner of Browne versus Tonky Frans.

Trademark shuvit spocks and gravity defying forward loops from Frans meant Browne would have to step his game up if he wanted to continue onto the final. Luckily for Browne, his bag of tricks is arguably the most extensive in the fleet, and a tactical heat eventually rewarded him with a place in the final.

The elimination final was a showdown that’s been sailed many times before this season, Browne versus Estredo. Browne commented, “The final was really windy, I got a couple of moves but also had a few crashes. On my way out I landed a ponch, a one-handed air flaka, a clew first ponch, an air chachoo, and a clew first flaka. On the way in I got a shaka, a one handed funnel, a burner, a one handed burner, and a gozada. I just did what I know I can do, but it was really hard sailing out there, really choppy, and really gusty.”

Gollito Estredo, who was competing with an injured ankle, threw moves back at Browne, but didn’t have enough to convince the judges he was the better man. In a 4-1 judging decision, Browne claimed the first single elimination as his, and will now have to wait for his challenger to arrive, and defend his position in the double elimination.

In the women’s single elimination, the first big match up came when Laure Treboux (Fanatic, North) dueled with stable mate Iballa Moreno (North). Treboux’s downfall started when she fell on many of her ‘safe’ moves, giving her very little fall back. Moreno then crippled Treboux, landing a big backloop and an equally big forward. Moreno advanced.

Story of the elimination was Yoli De Brendt (Fanatic, North), who was on biblically good form. The Venezuelan underdog slayed Nina Tjernberg (F2, North), heavy weight freestyler Daida Moreno (North), and Junko Nagoshi (Simmer, Dakine) to claim her place in the final against Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard, NeilPryde).

In the losers final, Iballa Moreno challenged Nagoshi for third place. The super close heat saw flakas and planning spocks from both sailors, with a split decision eventually awarding Nagoshi the victory, and third place in the elimination.

The De Brendt versus Offringa final was another close affair. Both sailors were matched on points until Offringa landed a huge ponch on the way out, Offringa: “In the final I started off with a flaka, but not a very good one, I just made it. Then I did a one handed puneta 540 and I fell on a spock on the way out. Coming back in, I started to get a bit nervous, I don’t know why. I didn’t land anything though. I finally got it together and landed a big ponch. Overall I didn’t sail my best heat. I was overpowered on my 3.7m, and it was really choppy, so hard to do moves. I was actually pretty surprised I won, as Yoli was sailing really well!” Offringa’s victory was impressive, but a wake up call for her given the 3-2 split judging decision.

The day also saw the start of the men’s double elimination. The most impressive inroads were made by Quincy Offringa (Starboard, Severne) and Ian Mouro Lemos (JP, NeilPryde), who will be looking to continue their run of form through to tomorrow.

Source: PWA