Liam ripping in Sylt.
BJORN DUNKERBECK
It is great to see Liam improving so fast and share time on and off the water with him, he has been top in the world in his age group already and if he keeps the same motivation, there is no limit to how good he can become! Liam started surfing when he was 4 Years old, windsurfing when 5, and SUP about the same time! He has won the Canaries under 12 surfing events, also the under 14 as well and was 2nd in the under 18 last year. He has done all the PWA youth events in Pozo and Tenerife, so he has a lot of competition experience! He is already getting stronger day by day and has a lot of the best windsurfers in the world to train with here on Gran Canaria - Philip Köster, Daida and Iballa Moreno, Moritz Mauch, Alessio Stillrich, Omar Sanchez, Josep Pons, Marino Gil and many more. Plus, here we can windsurf 330 days or more a year and this helps to clock up the windsurf hours. So he is doing ok with it all and is very motivated!
Windsurfing with him makes our relationship special, as we have lots to share and I can help him improve a lot! I also get in the waves a lot more lately and my foiling is improving because I am sailing with Liam. We will be making a Dunkerbeck movie for the cinema and TV over the next 18 months, so we will spend even more time in and out of the water together as well!
This story is from the Issue 397 - September 2020 edition of Windsurf.
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