ORIGINS
I am 32 years old and from Italy. I live in Trieste, my home town, in the northeast of Italy, between the Alps and the sea; but I spend most of my year abroad, the summer months in the Canary Islands and travelling with SUP racing and the winter months in South Africa. When I am at home in Italy I actually don’t sail, I just focus on my SUP training. I prefer to make trips for windsurfing and search for better conditions rather than struggle with driving a lot at home for pretty flat conditions. I got into windsurfing thanks to my parents, who are both windsurfers. Every summer I’d travel with them to Greece to windsurf and they taught me the first steps; it was only at 16 that I really started to like it though.
HOOKED
When I got hooked on windsurfing back in 2006 it changed my life. Since then I’ve been organizing my life around windsurfing! I changed university (I moved to Gran Canaria first when I was 18 and then to Lisbon to do my masters). I changed all my plans in order to have as much water time as possible. Windsurfing to me is feeling good and happy. This lifestyle is healthy and fun, whether it is competing or just being in the water, it makes you fit and I enjoy every minute of it. Windsurfing, I don’t know why, but it is so addictive, and actually I got into windsurfing not as a kid, but pretty late, so there has been so much to learn and this maybe gave me more motivation to improve.
LESSONS
This story is from the Issue 394 - April 2020 edition of Windsurf.
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