In today's notable heats, Maciek Kozerski
(Naish, POL) was defeated by Michael Schitzhofer (JN, AUS) in a tough
heat with more powered moves, higher tricks and faster moves. Tom
Court (North, GBR) defeated Andy Yates (Slingshot, AUS) in the same
heat with a fairly solid run, landing a regular and switch moves.
Alvaro Onieva (Best, ESP) took a decisive win over countryman Cesar Portas (North) in the 28th heat with more power and cleaner execution while Tom Hebert (Airush, New Caledonia) defeated Madison Van Heurck (Naish, USVI) in a super stylish heat, riding smoothly and more powered.
Alex Pastor (Naish, ESP) moved a step closer to challenging Mikael Blomvall (Nobile, Sweden) for the 4th place overall by knocking out Schitzhofer with high technical difficulty score and better execution. Russian Petr Tyuskevich (Cabrinha) then defeated Tom Court in the same heat with more varied tricks and a higher technical difficulty score.
The 30th heat saw Onieva pouncing Hebert, riding super-powered moves and clean tricks, going against Hebert's big moves with grabs. With a much lower kite throughout this moves plus more variation, Onieva took the heat win and moved on the next round only to be defeated by countryman Pastor who scored higher for more technical riding. However, his luck ran out in the 32nd heat when he landed hard on the water and hurt his ankle and headed back to the beach. His opponent Sebastien Garat (RRD, FRA) took the win. Pastor settled for 5th place in the overall PKRA rankings as a result of his loss.
In the 33rd heat, Garat won over Blomvall with a 3-2 decision to inch his way back to 3rd. A higher technical score for Garat coupled with bigger moves gave him the win.
The 34th heat saw a fired up Kevin Langeree (Naish, NED) taking down Garat winning via technical riding and bigger moves.
The men's double saw two
final heats between Langeree and single elimination round winner Aaron
Hadlow (Flexifoil, GBR). The first final heat saw Langeree outscoring
Hadlow with more variety and higher moves coupled with double pass
moves, outweighing Hadlow's slightly powered moves. The second final
round went to Hadlow after a strong heat from both riders. Hadlow performed with a lot more power and
took home the crown.
The ladies division on the other hand, saw the PKRA Tour regulars dominating the podium, with Susi Mai (Cabrinha, GER) defeating Russian Alexandra Maslova (North) in heat #17 with a higher technical riding heat. However, Mai was stopped in the 18th heat by top-ranked Bruna Kajiya (Best, BRA) in the 18th heat.
Gisela Pulido (Slingshot, ESP) once again took home the glory in the doubles final, defeating Kajiya with a higher technical difficulty score.
The World championship awards ceremony for the Freestyle Discipline will be held on Wednesday. Congratulations to Aaron Hadlow and Gisela Pulido - the 2008 PKRA World Champions!