Day Six - Brouwersdam2

Day 6:

Better late than never, here comes the report of the final day! With a good forecast for the last day everybody was well exited to go on the water early, wind was there and the breakfast has never been finished as early as on this day.

Wind came out of the NW with 15-18 knts providing planning conditions for everyone. Joining us for the day, Maaike Huvermann tried her first fully one handed grubbys and got really close to land them. Fiu could finally get some planning and went straight for airjibes directly from the start.

The wind did drop a bit around 11am which made everyone practice their low-wind abilities while Justine did her first beachstarts and started to get more confident with sailing in the harness.

After lunch the wind picked up a bit again and everybody started planning in the gusts. Justine went outside the pool for the first time and got planning in the harness for multiple times (first time ever for her!!) and Ruben looked the best with getting super close to his first Airjibe which he will land very soon during the next weeks if he keeps practicing like now!

At 6pm everybody got picked up and the clinic ended with a lot of good memories and very happy but tiered participants! It was also the last clinic of NGP for this year but we are already working on the calendar for next year again which will kick-off in Sardinia, when and where exactly will be announced on our facebook page within this month!

So keep an eye on our fb page and make sure you don’t miss the next one!

 Will you join sardinia?

Day Five - Brouwersdam2

Day 5:

Today started with a shorter video analysis than yesterday as the south west wind showed himself earlier. Everybody then went on the water for a morning session in which Justine went for the first time on a 130L boards with success! Boys took their freestyle stuff and with good pumping technic they could nail some nice planning duckjibe’s.

 We had the usual lunch a bit later in order to use the wind a bit longer and even before the end of lunch, they all went directly on the water again…! Speaking of motivation!!

Of course progress came again, boys pumped up some pops and ducks and Justine had her first plannings!

After a nice chicken for dinner, as the wind continued picking up, Dieter is even gone for an evening sunset session (exactly when we are writing these lines…  )

Forecasts are looking even stronger for tomorrow so we will finish this clinic in apotheoses…!!!

Day Four - Brouwersdam2

 Day 4:

The day started, after breakfast, by a video analysis of the previous days. Following this interesting work, we played some fast rigging challenge between the coaches, which like usual Dieter won… and as we had some sails rigged, we used them to give some more explanations about harness use for Justine.

In the afternoon, we had a light wind freestyle session during some news occurred!! Justine had her first harness runs, Ruben completed his first clew-first helitacks on both sides and Fiu ended up tricking Dieters gecko… Dieter, on his side, completed his first into the boom-flip 360° which Alex didn’t miss to film…to be seen soon…

Finally, during this day, the normal south west wind came back which allowed us to use the pool again and which is a good news for the rest of the clinic.

For the two last days, wind forecast is looking really good and it is still possible to participate on a daily rate!! Come to Brouwersdam beach and enjoy learning with us !!

Day three - Brouwersdam2

 Day 3:

Today, forecast were clearly showing a better wind in the afternoon so we decided for the morning to have a session at the Water Jump Ramp. This has been a hell of a lot of fun!!! And it’s also very good for “working” on the rotations in the air. A lot of face plant but also a lot of laughing moments!!

 In the afternoon we had some low wind freestyle session and some sneaky wind gusts played with our nerves but all participants can add new moves to their success list!

Tonight, the barbecue will be a good way to finish the day and wind forecasts are looking better and better…

Day two - Brouwersdam2

Day 2

Believe it or not, it’s warm in Holland !! Today was very sunny and we had perfect conditions for Justine to learn a lot of basic manoeuvers… A little too light for planning stuff but there is so many low wind manoeuvers to learn anyway..

Starting on land again, participants were repeating their scales in order to bring automatic moves to their hands. Then, some went on the water and others stayed on land until lunch.

After it, younger have been teaching older how to play Jungle speed for our digesting break.

A full afternoon of practicing on the water followed and at the end of the day, everybody was quite hungry and the big pasta plate got eaten in a blitz!!

Another stunning sunset finished the day as you can see on the pictures. See you tomorrow..!!