MG Windsurfing

I've been trying to get in a decent windsurf session for about two weeks now. The forecast never seems to materialise which is quite annoying because you just drive around wasting your time. Plus, I got stuck on a dirt track the last time I was trying to figure out how to make my way to a new spot. So maybe it's best just to take a break and watch some moves from last summer. I hope the whole "movie" will be finished soon. Here's a so-called double puneta And a small burner:

It had been quite a while since my last day on the water. So when I saw the forecast for New Year's day I was getting very excited. They announced a strong north-westerly wind, sunny weather and 2 to 3 degrees celsius. If it hadn't been for the floating ice that seemed to show up on the webcam, I might have been even more motivated to windsurf. Needless to say that everybody I told about my plan to go out in these conditions thought I was crazy. Well, I decided to drive to the beach and have a look for myself. When my girlfriend and me arrived, it was very windy and sunny, as predicted, but there was also quite a bit of crushed ice in the water. I decided to give it a try anyway and it was definitely the right decision.     As you can see, the waves lacked power and it wasn't that windy in the end. Maybe the waves backed up due to the patch of ice next to the harbour wall. But you can already see from these pictures that the waves get rather clean. So this can be a good ...

I hope you all had a great 2010 with many quality sessions on the water! We seem to get a very cold winter but I still hope that 2011 will provide us with some great conditions and milder temperatures!

Got a good 2-hour freestyle session in last weekend. It felt actually a lot warmer than the last sessions I have had at the Baltic. The wind seemed a lot less arctic. Conditions were far from spectacular but there were some good gusts to be had. I was also quite happy to nail an ok normal stance kono and some burners on the way out. On the way in the wind was a lot gustier, especially where they were taking photos. Even though the photographer seemed to concentrate on Bavaria's most well-known freestyler Fabi Weber, I still managed to get this shot: (pic by Sebastian Schoeffel) I have been in hospital from Sunday evening until today, so it was great to get some windsurfing in before having my nose repaired. This operation was really necessary as I was having problems breathing through my nose. If there's something like surfer's ear maybe I was suffering from a surfer's nose? :-) Well, it's all good now, even though the doctors had to remove a lot of cartilage and...

Back on the Water from Mathias Genkel on Vimeo .

First freestyle session today after a two-month break due to injury. It felt so great when I got on the plane for the first time. But I have the impression that I might need a better camera for those gloomy november sessions.

Here are some older pics from my last trip to Denmark a little more than a month ago. Fractured my right hand during the trip and finally got rid of the cast. So I'm doing some physio and hope to be back on track in about two weeks. Pretty flat out with college too but already planing trips for next year. Watch this space for a little freestyle vid that is to be released soon.