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// REPORT Day 9
2001-02-13
, Henning and Jürgen left for CPT the night before, Lars and me stayed in the Elands Hotel. A really cool place to be - we seemed to be only Guests. Unfortunately Lars injured himself yesterday doing a Guscrew and I smashed my rips. The winds have been so gosty - up to 55-60 knots. So Lars won't go for an other duell. I and I hope to be able to handle the water cam one more time...
We just got some work done and left for CPT around 15:30. The winds again picked up and there was still a clean wave to play with. Although we have been quiet unlucky with our injuries Elands Bay was definetly worth going for.

For the next couple of days the forecast for the Cpae area is not that good but let's see what we will get.

// checc out the forecasts:
fnmoc.navy.mil /go/
152.80.49.210/public /go/

The concept / rules for this time:we changed the whole thing to a "duell". Each contest is done by 2 competitors.

Heat duration: 7 min. with one man on the water at the time then rotating to the other. All repeated 3 times, so the Camera records totally 21 minutes of each rider. Changeing of boards and sails during the heats allowed. Each rider chooses 1 minute out of his recorded material. He determines the editing of his movie. So he is able to select the moves he thinks to be the best for his result. No special effects, except slow motion. No Repeats of moves nor editing of moves in a way where it looks like they are landed while in reality they are not. The video clips will be online after our standby period of 20 days. Around the 25th of Feb you will be able to vote for your favorite competitors. The result will be presented on this "web location". So tune in again.

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