Subscribe to our newsletters! We received these articles by mail from Andrea Cucchi of Point 7 , and we publish them on Waterwind with pleasure, to let them know among all windsurfers that will experience the next Defi wind in Gruissan France , as Andrea will do. Dear Friend, welcome to the first article of the Black Defi Project. This is the hardest race I ever took part in my life and I've been racing for over 20 years! Its not a 4minute course like in pwa slalom, or a 15minute course like formula windsurfing, it's 45minutes for the fastest guy and 90minutes for the last competitor!
Everytime I go to this event, at the first race, after the first 7km out of the 50, I wonder why I came back the Defi. It's so tough to sail on one side for 15km if you are not well prepared! Still why do I go back every year? Why is it that at the first race I think why did I come back to the event, and by the end of the event I want to do it again?
It's all about being prepared. Prepared does not mean physically, but most important will be the understanding of the wind strength, and the tuning of the gear for this course. So follow everything and you'll have a great memory from day 1. There are different things we need to be ready with for before the start of this incredible event.
Do we care of the final result? What do we need during the event? How do we prepare for the event? What gear do we need for the event? How fit do we need to be? We will not go through all the points now, but we will do it in detail in the next weeks.
Just to make sure that you start thinking about the preparation of things, these are the urgent things that you need:. Reserve a place to stay in gruissan now, unless you are camping on the parking of the event. I had already problems already now in getting the room in the hotel I enjoy staying normally.
