Day 4 US Windsurfing Nationals

What can I say- San Francisco turned on some epic conditions for the slalom racing on Friday afternoon. By 4pm it was 25 knots with a steep ebb chop.
Racing was run right in front of crissy field.
25 rounds of slalom heats were run before going to the final 13 with 5 more rounds of finals. What a day!
I had so much fun racing slalom- my heart was pounding all day long with adrenalin.
In the qualifying rounds I took it easy not pushing the envelope too much- finishing 2 in 4 heats and missing one as it got too op'ed for my 7.3 and medium sx board.
After that I switched down to the 95 l Ml slalom and 6.3 to get some more control.
In the finals- I went for it all- charging the line with vengeance,
Unfortunately just a tad early in the first heat being called over early.
After 3 races I switched back to the medium F2 board for better mark roundings.
It was a mess in there and all you could do was hope to get out in decent position after the first rounding.
Nonetheless I ended up in 6th- a good showing for the 1st slalom race of the year!
Hopefully will get some photos up asap as these are the money shots- stay tuned.

Checks out full page of slalom photos from OOTO here
as well as the video from OOTO below:
(credit Paul Buelow ooto.com)
Paul did an awesome job at putting together photos and videos from the event- check out the coverage on his blog @ ooto.com



2007 US Windsurfing Nationals & North American Championship
Slalom Series
Final Round August 10, 2007
Place Name Sail # Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Total
1 Seth Besse USA 64 1 1 1 2 *3 5
2 David Wells 46 *6 4 3 1 1 9
3 Jason Voss 8 3 6 *11 3 2 14
4 Bill Wier M9 2 2 6 6 *7 16
5 Andreas Macke G 42 *OCS 3 2 7 8 20
6 Steven Bodner USA 4 *OCS 8 9 4 4 25
7 Jon Ernst US 1166 7 *11 5 5 9 26
8 Vlad Moroz L1 5 *10 4 8 10 27
9 Casey Hauser 634 4 9 *10 9 5 27
10 Mike Percey USA VYV *10 5 8 10 6 29
11 Jean Rathle Z 8 7 7 11 *13 33
12 Soheil Zahedi a 9 *13 12 12 12 45
13 Uwe Dreyer US 213 11 12 *13 13 11 47
Heres the link to Brian's podcast
http://homepage.mac.com/sailing/fna0607.mp3