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I’ve just returned from the competition in France and now I’m in training in Tarifa.

We haven’t been very lucky because we had pretty strong levante but tomorrow starts poniente. I’m very happy because I enjoyed a few days with my mm and Pepi, a very good friend. We’ve been very relaxed and we had good fun!

On the 5th of September I’m going to Fuerteventura because there is a meeting of Airush, which is the kite company I use. We will test new material 2010 and we will meet with owners and designers. Read more ...

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I’m right now competing in Dunkerque at the World Cup. I’ve been here since Monday, but conditions weren’t that good. The truth is that was a boring week! The second day of the event was able to do a course race, but until today Saturday the wind didn’t come back. Today has been running the simple elimination of freestyle.

The conditions were super unstable. Sometimes there were no wind and suddenly gusts of 20 knots, it’s incredible! Actually this competition has been pretty complicated. It was hard to choose the right kite for the heat, so we decide it at the last minute. It was a bit stressful! Luckily I have my father who helps me a lot. He had another bigger kite in the air if the wind drops. But I’m very happy because I get the first position. After advancing some heats I have faced in the final against Kari Shibevaag. Kari went overpowered with her 7m. She tried many handlepasses but only landed a Railley Blind. I was completely flying away with my 7.5m! So I did high jumps and big kiteloops. I also landed a Blind Judge and a Slimchance. Here I leave you a photo! Read more ...

Hey!!

I’m right now competing in Dunkerque at the World Cup. I’ve been here since Monday, but conditions weren’t that good. The truth is that was a boring week! The second day of the event was able to do a course race, but until today Saturday the wind didn’t come back. Today has been running the simple elimination of freestyle.

The conditions were super unstable. Sometimes there were no wind and suddenly gusts of 20 knots, it’s incredible! Actually this competition has been pretty complicated. It was hard to choose the right kite for the heat, so we decide it at the last minute. It was a bit stressful! Luckily I have my father who helps me a lot. He had another bigger kite in the air if the wind drops. But I’m very happy because I get the first position. After advancing some heats I have faced in the final against Kari Shibevaag. Kari went overpowered with her 7m. She tried many handlepasses but only landed a Railley Blind. I was completely flying away with my 7.5m! So I did high jumps and big kiteloops. I also landed a Blind Judge and a Slimchance. Here I leave you a photo! Read more ...

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After completing the rehabilitation in Barcelona I could finally comeback to Tarifa a few days to train. The truth is that I feel very well, with less pain in the knee. Ferrán my physiotherapist told me that it continue hurting a little for a while.

I am now in Dunkerque, France, because it’s celebrated the World Championship. As it is very close to home, my father and I decided to go in the Pathfinder that Nissan has provided us to travel. It is very comfortable! Read more ...

Hey!!

After completing the rehabilitation in Barcelona I could finally comeback to Tarifa a few days to train. The truth is that I feel very well, with less pain in the knee. Ferrán my physiotherapist told me that it continue hurting a little for a while.

I am now in Dunkerque, France, because it’s celebrated the World Championship. As it is very close to home, my father and I decided to go in the Pathfinder that Nissan has provided us to travel. It is very comfortable! Read more ...

Hi everyone!

As I am not competing at the World Championship in Fuerteventura, I will explain you a little bit how has gone. The competition was run with a really strong wind conditions. There were gusts of 50 knots!

The boys rode with a lot of power but not with a high technical level. The final of the single elimination was between the dutch Kevin and Youri. The two threw pretty nice tricks, one after the other, with the kite low and smooth. The truth is that the heat was very tied. Kevin land a Frontmobe-Pass which gave him the victory. Aaron lost against Youri in the semifinal, but finally held the podium in third potion. The results were: Kevin, Youri, Aaron and Reno. In the double elimination everything changed. Aaron advance in all the heats till the final, which was against Kevin. Was very disputed, but the power gave the first position to the world champion. Read more ...

Hi everyone!

As I am not competing at the World Championship in Fuerteventura, I will explain you a little bit how has gone. The competition was run with a really strong wind conditions. There were gusts of 50 knots!

The boys rode with a lot of power but not with a high technical level. The final of the single elimination was between the dutch Kevin and Youri. The two threw pretty nice tricks, one after the other, with the kite low and smooth. The truth is that the heat was very tied. Kevin land a Frontmobe-Pass which gave him the victory. Aaron lost against Youri in the semifinal, but finally held the podium in third potion. The results were: Kevin, Youri, Aaron and Reno. In the double elimination everything changed. Aaron advance in all the heats till the final, which was against Kevin. Was very disputed, but the power gave the first position to the world champion. Read more ...

Hi everyone!

As I am not competing at the World Championship in Fuerteventura, I will explain you a little bit how has gone. The competition was run with a really strong wind conditions. There were gusts of 50 knots!

The boys rode with a lot of power but not with a high technical level. The final of the single elimination was between the dutch Kevin and Youri. The two threw pretty nice tricks, one after the other, with the kite low and smooth. The truth is that the heat was very tied. Kevin land a Frontmobe-Pass which gave him the victory. Aaron lost against Youri in the semifinal, but finally held the podium in third potion. The results were: Kevin, Youri, Aaron and Reno. In the double elimination everything changed. Aaron advance in all the heats till the final, which was against Kevin. Was very disputed, but the power gave the first position to the world champion. Read more ...

Hi all.

When the competition in Tarifa ended up, I went to Barcelona to finish the rehab of my knee.

On Wednesday there was a party organized by Custo Barcelona at the Gardens of Juan Carlos I hotel. It was amazing. First I went to look for a dress in the Custo shop, then when returned to the hotel to get ready I met my friend Edurne. We both went to be combed in one of the hotel room. Was great! Read more ...

Hi all.

When the competition in Tarifa ended up, I went to Barcelona to finish the rehab of my knee.

On Wednesday there was a party organized by Custo Barcelona at the Gardens of Juan Carlos I hotel. It was amazing. First I went to look for a dress in the Custo shop, then when returned to the hotel to get ready I met my friend Edurne. We both went to be combed in one of the hotel room. Was great! Read more ...

Hi all.

When the competition in Tarifa ended up, I went to Barcelona to finish the rehab of my knee.

On Wednesday there was a party organized by Custo Barcelona at the Gardens of Juan Carlos I hotel. It was amazing. First I went to look for a dress in the Custo shop, then when returned to the hotel to get ready I met my friend Edurne. We both went to be combed in one of the hotel room. Was great! Read more ...

Hi all!

This week has been celebrated the KPWT World Championship in Tarifa. We had very good wind conditions, almost every day between 15-25 knots of poniente, and a very nice temperature.

Thursday was the day of lightest wind, but were disputed some racings. On Friday we could do the simple elimination of Freestyle. In the first heat I had to compete against Sophie Mathews, but training before her heat she hurt her ankle so she didn’t compete. The next heat was against the polish Ania Grzelinska. Just before my heat, I was training, and did a bad landing on a slimchance and I had pain in my knee again. That made me go out and compete carefully. I did two handlepass, a blind judge and a fornt mobe, but it wasn’t enough, and Ania won because she did more variety. I really don’t understand how they judge the heat, but for me was a little unfair to appreciate more the variety than the technical difficulty. In the next heat, which was the losers final, I faced against Kris Kinn. I didn’t go to the heat because I had a lot of pain in my knee and I decided to wait to the double. Finally, I get the 4th position in simple elimination. On Saturday they began to run the doubles, but as there were many competitors, I didn’t competed. It was on Sunday when I compete against Kari Shibevaag, to fight for the 4-5 positions, and beat her. After I faced against Kriss Kinn to access to 3rd place and got through. To be second I had to compete with Noelia Nuñez. Noelia rode very powerful, landing a blind judge, but I pass with 4 different handlepasses and finally I arrived at the final, which was against Ania. If I wanted to win the competition had to win twice Grzelinska. I made some good heats, with lots of variety in the jumps and 4 handlepasses. Finally get the 1st place, although it was very hard, because the knee hurt a lot. I ran a high risk because I could break the ligament, but I went for it with decision, motivation and believing in my possibilities. I am very happy to have achieved this victory, and best of all is that I’ve competed at home with all friends supporting me. Read more ...

Hello everybody, At the end of the first stop of the World Championship, I went to Barcelona to get into the FC Barcelona’s medical services. When I arrived at El Prat airport, I went directly to the Camp Nou where doctors Canal and Endolç were waiting for me. After medical tests, they diagnosed me a sprain of the internal lateral ligament, grade 1. Relatively, it was good news! No more talking about the meniscus broken! That was what they diagnosed in Germany. The symptoms indicating the rupture of the meniscus was caused by a muscular contraction. The muscles contraction act like a defense mechanism, and prevented the rupture of ligaments. I told the doctors that wanted to compete in a week in Tarifa, and said I was going to be very close. We need at least 15 days, to recover an injury like mine. We were looking the best way that I could compete in the next event. The solution is to use a kneepad to hold and limit the injured ligament. I spent a week in Barcelona with Ferrán the best physiotherapist of the world doing rehabilitation. Besides it is very good at his job, it’s very kind! He has been very nice to me. Thanks Ferrán. In Barcelona I was subjected to an anti-algic treatment, to reduce pain through an electro therapy and massages with diathermy to reduce inflammation. Besides of the treatment, I was also doing exercises to improve the stability of my knee. I want to thank Barça for all the support and help that have given to me to recover the injury; it’s lucky to have the best professionals. Now I am in Tarifa, today we have the presentation of the second step of the KPWT World Championship. Thanks to great work that FC Barcelona’s medical services made me, I will be able to participate although I won’t be 100%, I’ll be super motivated and I will give everything. Kisses and Visca el Barça!! Read more ...

Hi everybody! Yesterday we disputed the double elimination of freestyle, and finally I could keep the first position. The pain in my knee was not so strong, but I went to the doctor again for infiltrate a painkiller. It is incredible, when they injected to me, after 15 minutes I had no pain and I could compete with a lot of motivation and confidence. I tried to ride the best as possible and to give the greatest show, but with a little caution. In the final I faced Kristin Boese again. The conditions were one of my favorites, although the sea was very choppy, near the beach was quite flat with a perfect kicker, similar to Tarifa. I competed with the Airush Generator 7.5m, my favorite kite and made 4 handle passes in the heat; blind judge, front mobe, slim chance and 313. At the last minute I tried the back mobe but I didn’t land it. These final wasn’t the best I’ve ever done, but I am happy because I rode quite powerful. Read more ...

KPWT Sylt Germany - Single Elimination

Hi everyone, Today I faced a challenge and obstacle I have never experienced before. We had the single elimination of Freestyle at the World Cup in Sylt (Germany). During my warm-up before the heat I had an accidente. When landing a trick I hurt my knee. I really thought I would not be able to compete as it was really painful. I put ice for a long time and anti-inflamatory cream, but this didn’t make it better so I went to the doctor. They did an X-ray which showed the bones were OK, the pain was due to the tearing of the interior meniscus. The doctor asked me if I wanted to compete and I said ‘of course, doctor!’, so they stuck two injections of anti-inflamatory and pain killers which was rather painful. I had to really be careful when competing because my knee was hurting so much. I won all my heats with very technical tricks but avoided power landings; I was really scared of the pain landing. I progressed to the final where I met Kristin Boeses, the local German rider. In the final I had to push myself to my limit to win against Boese. I successfully landed 5 different kind of handle-passes that led me to my victory in this single elimination. Read more ...

Hi guys! I have finished the high school, finally holidays! This last week has been very hard, with all the final exams, but I’m happy because I did it well. Yesterday I travelled to Germany, to compete in the KPWT in Sylt. We left from the airport in Malaga, with the huge board bags, and with the riders Ainhoa Garcia and Rafa Aguado. When we arrived to Hamburg, we met Kirstin Jones, rider of the North, and we went together to Sylt by car. You know what…….? It’s impossible to get to Sylt by car, so we had to go through a ferry, which in this case is a train!! When we arrived, I couldn’t believe it, so long and tired trip! Today we had the inscriptions of the riders, and I have met many friends as Jan Marco, Mitu Monteiro, Kristin Boesse and many more. What memories! I’m going to sleep now because tomorrow the riders meeting is at 8.30 am I and must compete. Cheers! Read more ...

Hi all! This weekend I was in Barcelona to assist at the Movistar Barcelona Extreme. It is a sports event involving the major skateboard, BMX, inline, FMX, urban jibbing and wakeboard riders. I was impressed because of the number of people who were at the event! I was competing in wakeboarding discipline. There were many obstacles, including a kicker and a slider, and it was very difficult because we were pulled by a jet ski, but we had fun. I also made Bungee jumping from a 70m high crane. I have made skydiving in tandem, and is a very special feeling. But with the Bungee it was much more scary because is much closer to the ground. I went to see the competition of all other sports and I saw the Red Bull sportsman competing as well such as Sergio Layos and Vicky Gómez in BMX and Danny León in skateboarding. They are awesome! I really enjoyed the event. Here I leave  you a video. Read more ...

Hi all! Seizing that I was in Barcelona for the presentation of the Movistar Barcelona Extreme, I stayed there some few more days. On Saturday 23rd, I was with Pol Espargaró, the young motorbike pilot. Pol and I are part of the new Arnette team. It was very funny, because Pol taught me how to pilot water motorbikes. The sea was very moved, there was a lot of waves and choppy and how we were going pretty fast, we were jumping so high!! I was all the time behind Pol, but I couldn’t catch him, it’s amazing how he dominates! Then we went to the beach, and as we had a little wind, I pump the kite and though him how to fly them. He was doing it pretty well, I think that fly a kite is similar to pilot a motorbike. But after, when the wind picks up, he was a bit scared. Anyway he did very well. Read more ...

Last week I was in Barcelona, because Thursday 21st was the presentation of the Barcelona Movistar Extreme, at the Lyceum. Very curious, making a freestyle and extreme sports event in a classic and old place such this one. The Movistar Barcelona Extreme is just an extreme sports event, as the word says, which will compete in many different disciplines, like BMX, Skateboard, Freestyle Motocross, and many others. It will be a new experience for me because I will compete in Wakeboarding. I haven’t had many chances to practice this sport. In some competitions, which we had no wind, we take the security boat and just do it with a bar and our kite boards. I remember also that I tried the Cable-Ski in Leucate, France and I really like it, it was a nice feeling. The most important thing is having good fun and enjoy! Is pretty cool as well because you can use it as training, because the tricks in wake are harder, I mean… you are pulled with a boat, and then the tricks in kite look much more powerful and stylish. The guys from there told me that will be some obstacles, one kicker and one box. Amazing! Besides of the competitions and exhibitions, there will also be an area for people who want to try all kind of sports. I think is going to be very cool, so I just wanted to invite everybody to come and have fun. The event will celebrate the 6th and 7th June in El Parc del Forum, Barcelona. See you guys there! Kisses Gigi Read more ...

Hi all! As you know my job consist in train and compete in the Kitesurfing World Cup. On the other hand I have to attend the media, answering interviews and providing information and photos about my sport, always giving the best visibility to my sponsors. But there is a part of my work lesser known, that is working with my sponsors in some events. In this occasion I attended in the Cars Fair in Barcelona with Nissan. As everybody knows, Nissan is one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world and has support a line of adventure sports “Nissan Sports Adventure”. I have fitted in this project because Kitesurf is an extreme and adventure sport. The search of the best places in the world to practice kitesurfing is a way of life for many kiters, who travel around the world with the dream of finding the Secret Spot. Nissan puts in our hands the best technology to make this search more secure and comfortable. To encourage some visitors of the Fair, I took some Indo Boards, so that everyone could feel sensations of surfing. The Indo Board is a training table for sliding sports. It consist in simulate the gestures of surf balancing on a roller. We had a lot of fun with these simple boards that keep the balance with a super technical and surfing posture is all a challenge. Here I leave you some photos of the event. Hope you like it! Read more ...