Balz, if you were allowed to steal three abilities, things or similar from other riders, what would they be?
Oh, I have lots of things I can think of. Of course I would like to steal a lot of things from other riders if I could. Marcilio Browne works very professionally, he always has everything rigged up, is highly focussed in training and at the World Cups, has a caddy with him and does everything very seriously. But sometimes I think you don't need that much. He always has six or seven different wave boards with him, and I always think that one board and two sails should be enough, and you have to rock it with them! But we are Formula 1 and you need this mountain of equipment. Marcilio is very, very professional and I'm quite the opposite.
And what else would you like to steal from another professional if you were allowed to?
Hmm, that's much more difficult than you might think. I think about it for a moment.
More windsurfing pros and their "steal lists":
How about a Shifty that can cope with all conditions?
Hey, that's a bad example, I invented that trick, that's my move! But I would love to jump the shifty forward. It's a backwards rotation tweaked with a push loop and then the front loop.
What else would you like?
At the last World Cup on Sylt, Victor Fernandez rode the hard breaking waves under land in perhaps 15 knots of wind at world-class level. His competitors, on the other hand, raged around on the outer sandbank and then went into the windward jam for the last wave and the last minute of the heat. But Victor mastered everything so well at the front, which is why I think he is the real winner of the wave elimination!
