SEBASTIAN KÖRDEL
I loved the foil racing. I had been training all winter for it and am happy that we are finally able to show what we can do on the racecourse! The racing is very exciting visually both in light and stronger winds. It is fun, exciting and even scary sometimes. The wind picked up in one race and we had an M course which involved a lot of reaching. Everything is so unbelievably close. You are on the brink of losing control with five guys in very close proximity around you. We are all racing at high speeds and if somebody makes a mistake the whole situation could be really scary. I think in the higher wind let’s say from 15 knots upwards we need to have courses that are purely upwind and downwind so we can choose our path and get a little bit more spread out. When we are reaching we are locked together and that is when it gets a bit on the edge. It is super funny because you can talk to each other. I had one situation where I was going downwind with Arnon and he was on the outside of me. I just spoke to him in a normal volume, “Arnon this is scary”, he looked back round at me also talking at normal volume, “OK I let you go round the gybe”. There is no sound from the board hitting the water, you can just talk to each other even during the racing. It is almost like being on hover boards. We are flying across the water and not being touched by the chop or the waves.
