European and African Championships 2014

E&A boat champs was held in Montargil, Portugal last week. I drove to Portugal with Jordan and Andres from Xtreme Gene. The drive was super chilled, it took us about 5 hours. We stayed in a 5 star hotel along with all the other wakeboarders. The contest site was just across the road.

The conditions were perfect for the contest. Its was hot all week and not too windy. My practice run was real bad - the wake was almost as big as me !!! I struggled in qualifiers and got 4th place in my heat which meant i had to go to LCQ's where i got another chance to try make it through. Fortunately i won my LCQ heat and made it into finals!! I was first off the dock in finals and managed to get 3rd place overall which meant I won a bronze medal for South Africa :) I was over the moon ! Jordan managed to get a silver medal in both Junior Men wakeboard and wakeskate which is an amazing achievement! 

I was basically adopted by the Spanish team because I was the only competitor from South Africa :P Team Spain got 3rd place overall! They only had 6 riders and managed to get 5 podiums- very impressive. 

I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend the last week of my trip. It was an awesome week with awesome people! I drove back to Marbella on Sunday afternoon with the Darwins and on Monday morning I was off the to the aiport to start my journey back to South Africa.

A big thank you to my sponsors - Roxy SA and LiquidForceSA