| 7, Did your parents encourage you to take up
the sport? |
No, my
Mum even hesitated at first because its not the cheapest sport. But
Iwanted it so bad that she allowed me to do it.
| 8, Were there alot of girls taking up Windsurfing at
the time? |
no not
at all. I was the only little girl and became kind of well known on
my lake as Iwas out there everyday ripping with the guys.
| 9, Is windsurfing seen as a male sport in some
countries and were you ever compared to
them.? |
oh very
much, yeah. In Germany its a male sport. We only have 5 girls
competing in the national tour. I'm the only german girl that has
constantly competed in the worldtour since 2002. I had a couple of
good results but until now Ihave never been mentioned at all in the
main german surf magazine! But they write about guys that take part
in small local contests. That's different in spain, where the world
champion Daida Moreno and her sister Iballa Moreno live and
practice. Because of them there is a lot female windsurfing in the
press. And so they write about the other spanish girls
also.
| 10, Have you ever had any major injuries
? |
No, not
really. many bruises and sometimes problems with ligaments, but
windsurfing is not really dangerous.
|
11, Can you earn good money windsurfing or do
you
have to rely on
Sponsorship? | I cannot live on
windsurfing at all, which is the same for 80% of the girls on the
worldtour. Only about 6 girls compete worldwide in the Wave and
freestyle tour and are fully sponsored. The rest have bad contracts
and problems getting to the events at all. Some really talented
girls from the top had to give up because they couldn't find anybody
who would support them. I finance myself with work during my
university semester and I get sails cheaper from my semisponsor
Arrows.
| 12, Do you enjoy any other
sports? | I love surfing!
And Inline Skating.
| 13, How do you feel this season has
gone? |
Pretty good
actually. I had bad luck sometimes because
i was badly equipped
this year. For example my sails
broke just in the middle of a
race because they're so
old. So I had some bad results, but I did
maintain a
seventh place in freestyle in most of the races
until
my last event in Canada in which i couldn't take part
I
was seventh overall, which is more than i expected.
| 14, Have you ever tried any extreme
sports? | No, but I would!
But right now I'm so involved in
windsurfing and surfing that i
don't have the time for
any other sport.
| 15, What are your future plans in
Windsurfing? | Keep on
competing in the PWA worldtour, learn new
manovers to get 5th in
Freestyle or wave, go to
Maui/Hawaii one day.
16, What do you enjoy doing when you are
not
windsurfing? | I play guitar a
lot, I love it, and piano.
But most of the time when I'm not
windsurfing i have to
study for my Master degree in Information
Management.
| 17, Do you ever take part in any
modelling? | No, I tried to
do it for some surf companies but they
have so many girls who
never eat anything and don't
have any muscles, unfortunately
thats the type of women
that these companies prefer, although you
can see
straight away that this model never ever stood on
a
surfboard.
| 18 Can you give 2 tips to other girls who would
like to start WS? |
Surfing
or windsurfing is the best fat burner ever!
You're out there on
the water for hours because you
cannot stop, that's a lot of
sport per day! So start
Windsurfing!
Get a good instructor,
it's important to learn the basics
from someone who really knows
what they are talking about.
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