
Nuevo madrugón buscando el mar glassy con buen tamaño, y así poder pasar más tiempo con la familia, pero al llegar a Cabrera el panorama era bien distinto. Mar grande, eso sí, pero roto, desordenado y bastante cerrón, pero ya que habíamos madrugado y estaba con Oliver ... al agua.
El primer intento de entrada, se saldó con un tremendo 1-0 para el mar. Me pilló la serie y me devolvió por donde había venido, bueno, más bien 200 metros playa abajo, y tras un buen revolcón en la orillera con cortes provocados por la aleta en el empeine, la espinilla y el gemelo. Miedo. Eso es lo que pasé. Miedo.
Me quedé un buen rato fuera, valorando si valía la pena entrar o no, pero ¿para que coño había madrugado?. "¿No querías olas grandes?, pues no me seas marica y para adentro" me susurró, más bien me grito, mi demonio interno. Así que busque y encontré el canal de entrada y para adentro, bastante más fácil que en el primer intento.
Dentro la cosa era diferente al infierno de la orilla. Las series eran grandes, por encima de la cabeza y era difícil y daba miedo cogerlas. Las entreseries eran rápidas y muy difíciles de coger, con el peligro de colocarse demasiado cercano a la orilla para cogerlas y comerse desprevenido la serie.
Además, cerraban bastante, por lo que las 3 olas contadas que pillé, verificadas en el video grabado con la GoPro, acababan en comida de la serie, pillando 4 o 5 olas una detrás de la otra ... hacía tiempo que una vez ya en casa, no me salía agua a chorro de la nariz al agacharme.
Como casi siempre además los del tiempo la cagaron, ya que después de comerme todo el mar desordenado y cerrón de la madrugada, al llegar a casa, me encuentro el panorama de la foto (ver foto webcam Caleta al pie del post), perfectamente glassy de la Caleta ... ¡increíble!, eso si que tiene que ser divertido. Muy divertido.
Por cierto. Veinte mil gracias, por las ya más de ¡20.000 visitas al blog!. Simplemente muchas gracias.
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Once again a dawn patrol in search for a glassy chest height wave session (according to different forecasts), and at the same time arrive at home early enough to spend sunday with the family, but when arrived at Cabrera de Mar, the sight was quite different. The waves were high, yes, but choppy, and were closing 8 out of 10, but as I was already there so early in the morning, and with Oliver ... decided to have a try.
First time trying to get to the peak was a disastrous 1-0 for the sea. I ate a big set, and the sea decided to return me to the place I came from, well, 200 meters down the beach, after being caught by a violent shorebreak that launched the board to me, causing varius cuts at the right foot, shin and calf. Fear, this is what I really felt. Fear.
I waited there, standing on the sand, watching the challenging sea, from the shore, weighting the options to try it again, but ... why the hell I got up so early on a sunday?. "Do not want big waves, eh? Don't be sissy and let's go for it" whispered to me, well, cried to me, my internal demon. So I searched for the channel and went for it, quite more easily than the first time.
Once inside, on the peak it was quite different that the nightmare shore. The sets were big, overhead, and very difficult (and terryfing) to catch. The waves between sets, were fast and difficult to catch, so it was the danger of getting to close to the beach to try to get the waves between sets, and suddenly be catched by the big set.
Furthermore, the waves were closing more and more, so after the 3 veryfied waves I catched (counted on the GoPro videos I filmed), ended up eating 4 or 5 waves on the impact zone without escape ... it was along time ago since the last time I ended up being at home an start throwing salt water through my nose after bending down to pick something.
As usual the "weathermen" made a shit of a prediction, and after trying to surf all that mess, after arriving at home, I checked la Caleta webcam and found what you can see in the image below (check the webcam image at the bottom of the post), perfect glassy waves ... ¡incredible!, that must be fun. Real fun.
By the way. Twenty thousand thanks to everybody for reading the blog. ¡20.000 visits already on the blog!. Simply thanks.
April 26, 2009
Miedo y 20.000 gracias
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April 25, 2009
Bañata session
24 de abril y primera sesión del año en bañador y lycra, eso si, lycra de neopreno. Otra ventaja del SUP.
Si el año pasado apliqué al máximo el refrán de "hasta el 40 de mayo no te quites el sayo", es decir hasta el 9 de junio no utilicé bañador, este año, con el SUP, que no estás dentro del agua, y debido al esfuerzo físico de remar continuamente, el 24 de abril, un mes y medio antes, ya estoy en bañador. ¡Genial!.
Eso sí, parece que estos próximos días habrá que utilizar algún día más el neopreno completo.
Por lo que a la sesión respecta, no vale la pena comentar nada. Sesión puramente física, de entrenamiento, remando contra el viento on-shore de unos 14-16 nudos, y volviendo a la playa intentando coger algo. Así durante 45 minutos, y para casa.
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April 19, 2009
Mondial du Vent
Las Saturday I made my second visit to the Mondial du Vent event … and probably the last one.
This time, we went knowing that the forecast was of light winds. Nevertheless we decided to have look and went together with Enric . Pol was with my parents, and Nuria was in Madrid for work, so this time I was going as a rodriguez (as we call in Spain to a father without the family for some days).
It was a perfect day to do some windsurfing and to test some SUP boards, and to have a look at new boards, sails ans so on …or at least it was what I thought. We arrived early in the morning with the wind blowing at about 18 knots, what allowed the organisation to schedule some windsurfing races, but then, as the forecast dictated the wind dissapeared. And without the action of the races, there was not much to do or watch in this “Mondial du Vent” edition. Fewer booths thar previous years, lack of “street selling” and also fewer boards to test.
We decided to have a test on the Wow SUP boards, but the organisation scheduled an improvisated SUP race in which some of the paddlers used the test boards to race, so we ended up dry, without hitting the water. Apart from that, little interesting things. The SUP race was won by the only contendant with a truly race board, and to see Antoine Albeau testing what seemed to me as Naish 9’3” that hardly supported his weight, sinking until the water covered his ankles.
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April 17, 2009
Making things happen
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April 10, 2009
Mediterranean sessions
But let's go bit by bit. On wednesday afternoon, I went to la Caleta at 4.30 pm, just in the worst moment when the wind was picking. The sea was completely broken, a mess, with 6ft.-9ft., side-on 20 knots wind, that got me back on land just after 15 minutes!!!. The shortest session on life. To my relief I should say that a prone surfer entered just after me ... and got out just before me ...
You had to paddle strongly and without stop to keep a good position on the lineup, the waves were broken, and were breaking at changing points and directions, it was not easy to keep the balance, my SUP board seemed a rodeo bull when on the only wave I made, and when falling the wind made the board take off like a missile, so the risk/pleasure ratio was too high, too bad, so ... ¿why keep suffering?
On thursday morning the situation was rather different: sun, hot and almost flat sea. Nevertheless I knew that that fantastics spot which name I do not want to remember, would give me a pair of sunny SUP surfing.
Nevertheless it was a funny session, it showed me the dark side of the human being: as your progress in a sport like in this case, SUP surfing, it's harder to enjoy from a session, the waves should be more and more perfect to enjoy ... ¡we are so damm complicated! ... maybe it's because that, that I change hobby so radically from time to time? ...
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April 6, 2009
La llamada de la naturaleza
Un poco de agua, un par de plátanos, una gorra y muchas ganas. Salimos desde un minúsculo trocito de arena a mitad de la playa sur del puerto del Masnou, y nos dirigimos hasta los viveros. El día estaba muy plano, por lo que era muy fácil remar, y tampoco hacía mucho calor, por lo que en 26 minutos a buen ritmo nos plantamos en los viveros.

But on Saturday the sea was completely flat, so I “convinced” Oliver to go with me to do the “crossing”:
Some water, a pair of bananas, a cap, and a lot of enthusiasm. We started from a little strecth of sand south to the Masnou’s port and went to our finish line. The day was really flat, so the rowing was easy, and we advanced quite fast, so in 26 minutes at a good pace, we arrived to our fisnish line.
We were there for a moment, and coming back we took the same time minus one minute: 25 minutes. So at the end we did more or less 5,6Km in 51 minutes; 6,6 Km/h or 3,2 nautic miles per hour.
Ah!, I forgot to tell you about the sealife, because it ashames me. We are destroying the mediterranean sea, or worst, I hope I’m wrong, we already destroyed it. I did not see any fish during our 51 minute cross. But I saw at least 20 of those white fiber “fishes” driven by fat men …
Please, take care of the sea, take care of it and made others to take after it also.
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