#3 - The strong (est) wind

In Dakhla exists just two types of wind: the strong wind and the strongest wind... after 8-9 days with 25-28 knots, we knew what does it mean to check out our limits: There's a photo took by Tommy, in wich the anomemeter shows 38 knots on the beach (it means that in the middle of the lagoon they would be almost ten more)... the next photos shows only the windsurf in the water with 3.5 / 3.0 sails and sand flying everywhere (it's not fog what you see in the pic, it's fuxxing sand)...

So, with these beautiful and calm conditions :-) , the ProTeam (Manu, JuJu and Pierre) decided to go to the ocean, at wavespot, where the wind should be strongless and the conditions good for a big surf session... ok, this was the moment to risk: go big or stay at home?? I decided to go with the Pros (Alex decided it too) and, with my fantastic waroo 9 (Rachid said: "yes yes, 9 is good, 7 is too small!!) and the 4x4 full of people and kites we leave from the camp... After 15 min of a crazy drive session in the desert, we arrived at this incredible spot, renamed after the session "fearspot": huges waves of 2 mt at least, fuxxing superstrong wind and fuxxing sand that peels you from feet to the neck... At the same time I watched the waves, Manu and JuJu were ready to take off with a Vegas9 and a Rebel9.... and the show started.... jumps 10-15 mt high (it was enough to pull the bar with the kite at the zenith) by Manu, carving and wave lessons by Giuliano (power is nothing without control... style lesson!!). Also Pierre et Alex went outside.... I still decided to wait for, to see what happens in the water and to understand better the wave sets (i was so fuxxing scared!!!!! ;-) ). After 15 min Alex came back as he had a 3 hour session in the lagoon (Alex said: the strongest conditions i've ever seen)... and Pierre too decided to land after the fearsession. Ok, this was my moment: I took all my courage, I depowered totally my waroo and I went outside.... 5 minutes. 5 minutes. The duration of my session. 1 wave has been enough... In the next photos it looks like I'm a pro rider into the hell, but they were only 5 minutes. The most frightful thing has been the line up... when you approached the line you saw the waves to grow up and grow up... But i can say to have surfed in the Hell!!! :-D

The Hell from the beach... and with Manu, Pierre et Alex on the background...


That's me escaping from the waves :-D


Manu full of power!!


Pierre loves his board... and loves the wind too... (this was the only solution to win against the sand)


Pierre and Giuliano (look at tha fuxxing sand and how strong was the wind)


My trying to land and Manu ask help for me...(look at my kite!)



Ok, that's all... see you in the next post with the drink team picz!! ;-DD

p.s: I forgot to say that when we came back to the camp, I decided to have a last session in the lagoon, with 35-40 kts and my 7... after a fuxxing gust and a sick kiteloop I crashed on the water and I cracked a rib... but the people saw me from the beach said "ehi man, your kitloop was fuxxing huge!!!"... ..