Kitesoul Magazine #17 English Edition

My whole family practices lots of sports.
I started skiing when I was 3 years old, I
was barely able to walk and I was already
on the ski. What I really love about water
sports is that you have to be very concentrated
on what you are doing or it can be
dangerous. You only think about what you
are doing right then and that’s what I like.
In all of these sports, you also have a freedom
feeling that you can get only there!
You spend most of the year in Brazil. How
is your life over there? How do you spend
your days? Do you have local friends and
a fiancé?
I’ve been living there for 6 years now. My
life over there is kind of simple (but also
super cool!) I wake up, have breakfast,
study (yes, I also study), go in the water,
work out, sleep and repeat. The culture between
Brazil and Europe is very different,
but I have some friends there (Brazilian or
not), and most of them are kiteboarders.
You chose the Strapless discipline at its
maximum popular time. Is it a coincidence
or you just like it better than Freestyle
or Big Air or Kite Park?
When I started kiteboarding, I was only
doing twin tips. When I was starting to do
some passes, I hurt my knee pretty badly,
so the only thing that I could do was
strapless. Since then, I’ve never been riding
with a twin tip again. Freestyle is also
good, but I think that the freedom feeling
that you have in strapless is way better (of
course, this is only my point of view).