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Antxon Otaegui se despide del PWA World Tour

El mejor freestyler español abandona el circuito de la PWA debido a las lesiones y la falta de apoyo de los sponsors.
Sin embargo bien seguro que seguirá dando caña en su home spot de Lanzarote.
Un abrazo Antxón y a ver si nos vemos pronto en el agua. [saludo]

A continuación la entrevista de Continentseven :

Antxon Otaegui stops his professional windsurfing career

Antxon Otaegui (27) was already on the top winning a PWA Freestyle event in 2008 at Westerland, Sylt. And now, just 2 and a half years later he decided to quit his succesfull windsurfing career. There were several reasons, which forced the Spaniard from the Canary island of Lanzarote to finish his career. Antxon (E-169), who started his windsurfing careet through a Young Guns camp and getting a wild card for an official PWA freestyle event on Fuerteventura, could proof that you don´t have to be from Maui, Brazil, Venezuela or Bonaire to make it on top of professional Freestyle windsurfing. The professional windsurfing scene is losing a big character on the PWA tour, who had an unique style on and off the water. Read more in the following interview, why Antxon decided to quit and follow new tracks!

Antxon at Sylt winning his first PWA Freestyle event (Pic: PWA/Carter).
C7: We just saw that you are off the NP international Teampage! What happened?
Antxon: Yes, I didn´t make any official announcement on that, but I decided to stop my career as a pro windsurfer. I had many injuries on my right foot and it will never be 100% fit again. This together with the difficult economic situation made me take this decision.

It was the right leg, which made problems in 2010 again at the Fuerteventura event (Pic: PWA/Carter).
C7: So you definitely decided to stop your career from now on?

Antxon: Yes, I won´t compete anymore. I will keep on sailing in front of my house just for fun.

C7: How much did the injuries influence the decision and how was a less good contract responsible for the fact that you stopped competing?
Antxon: Well, the injuries had a lot to do with the decision I took. If you have pain when you sail it is very hard to improve. I was going for the moves with fear and it is easier to get more injuries like that. About the contracts, well, JP and Neil Pryde wanted to take my salary off and just pay me to go for the events and give me gear. I have been on tour several years and I know more or less the costs that I had each season and what they offered me was not even close to what I needed just to cover the costs.

C7: How do you feel about this decision. You were quite into the scene and still very competitive! You had two 9th in the freestyle events and an excellent 17th in the double elimination of Pozo in 2010? Was it not enough?
Antxon: To be on the 9th position in the Freestyle discipline is not good enough (money wise) to make a living out of the sport. Anyway, it is hard to make a proper living even if you are on the top 5. I was happy about my 17th place in Pozo, but this doesn´t help at all to get a better contract.

Antxon at the warmup for teh PWA freestyle event at Sotavento in 2010 (Pic: PWA/Carter).
C7: But you are still on the water at your homespots at Lanzarote, Canary Islands?
Antxon: Yes, definitely! I have been sailing these days at Jameos, riding some waves and it was long time ago, that I did enjoy a session on the water so much. I am doing more wavesailing than freestyle, it´s less hurting at my foot. I sail every day, if it is windy with decent conditions, at least wind with 5,3 and 89 liters. Depends on the month but more or less I would say 10 to 15 days a month (this time of the year), more in summer.

C7: Or does your stop in competition mean, that you are less motivated to windsurf?
Antxon: Well, I was less motivated when I was on tour, I was not enjoying windsurfing as much as I used to do and this made me think about the whole situation. But since I stopped competing I am enjoying it like before. If I don´t like a move I just don´t do it. I don´t have to train anymore.

Antxon already thought about his plans in the future in 2010 (Pic: PWA/Carter).
C7: What your plans now? The plan B, or did you have this one in your pocket for a while already?
Antxon: Well, I am about to open a business in Lanzarote with a good friend of mine. I am gonna invest some money, but I am sure it will work out.

C7: Are you disappointed that you´ve stopped your career at this point?
Antxon: Well, not really. It was a period of my life that was really nice. I enjoyed 100%, many many many good experiences. I made some really good friends, but I felt already since one year that I needed a radical change in my life.

C7: If we look back, you had great results, especially on the PWA events on the Canaries, ranked on podiums and you could win several EFPT events! What was your career highlight?
Antxon: I would say my victory in Sylt 2008, the EFPT title on 2008, the 3rd place at the PWA freestyle event in Lanzarote 2009 and the 3rd place in the PWA Freestyle on Fuerteventura 2006.

The moments of the biggest success, celebrating the PWA victory on Sylt (Pic: PWA/Carter).

C7: Your favourite car is a Porsche. Would freestyle and wave windsurfing never allow you to get one?
Antxon: hahahaha……, well it would be really hard.

Antxon´s favourite car? (Pic: PWA/Carter).
C7: Your were competing on the freestyle circuit for almost a decade. Did the sport change a lot out of your view or got the moves too extreme?
Antxon: Yes, it improved a lot. I believe Freestyle windsurfing is much more spectacular and technical these days. To learn a move these days you need to learn first, how to get in the position to go for it. Just for this you need to have an unbelieveable control over your gear!

This was the last PWA freestyle event in Austria for Antxon in 2010. He finished 9th. (Pic: PWA/Carter).
C7: Will we see you at your homespot in the PWA event this year, perhaps competing?
Antxon: I will be around for sure, but I think I won´t compete. I don´t have the level of the top guys anymore.

In the form of his life at Sylt 2008 (Pic: PWA/ Carter).
C7: Tell us, what´s the “El Garbazana”?
Antxon: Well, that is a move I made some time ago. Just two times and at the third attempt I had a pretty hard crash and I stopped doing it. It was a Pushloop downwind landing as a shaka.

C7: We wish you good luck – we never forget about the “7 sons of Freestyle” connection (editors note: “7 Sons of Freestyle” was the first “freestyle only” windsurfing DVD we´ve produced in 2004 with Antxon Otaegui, Ricardo Campello, Gollito Estredo, Remko de Weerd, Normen Günzlein, Andre Paskowski and Cheo Diaz), but just the worldchampions Ricardo and Gollito are still in business, and really hope that you find the right direction to go ahead!!
See you on the beach of Lanzarote and thanks for all your effort in the past years!
Antxon: Maaaaan….., you are gonna make me cry. I won´t forget the “7sons of Freestyle” video either. Thanks for all the help these years.

Fuente: http://www.continentseven.com/2011/04/15/antxon-otaegui-quit-his-professional-windsurfing-career-2/
 
Si, las lesiones... las lesiones se recuperan. Creo que más bien los tiros van por el tema de la esponsorización. Lo dice bien claro, hizo cuentas de lo que le pagaba una marca como NP y JP, y no cubría ni de lejos los gastos del circuito del a PWA... lamentable... ESTE DEPORTE, APESTA!
 
Me parece que o eres un numero 1 y la marca te suelta la pasta o tienes que tener esponsor ajenos que te aseguren el presupuesto. Si eres de la mitad de la tabla igual te conformas con que te den el material y al final de temporada lo vendas. Una cosa que creo influye mucho es la poca repercusión del circuito profesional en la actualidad nada comparable con hace años.
También si en este pais hay un 21% de paro pues nos toca a todos incluidos los windsurfistas.
 
Hay un par de comments que me han gustado, los copio y pego. Si alguien no los entiende los traduzco.


Comment by matty
16. April, 2011 19:17

young people will stop doing this sport just because the bad management of some people who think their god.Ridiculous management and ridiculous mind.There are already couple of good guys saying good bye to the tour,seems everything is going totally wrong in this world.
Well done anxton,Do you own thing and fuck this sport mafia.What i see is companies industry are looking to make money from windsurfer(US) and fuck the rest.What a philosophy….
Very bad philosophy,invest minimun to earn the max,,, very bad management,very bad dealers, very bad distribution, very bad media in sport,very bad proyection and very bad people back these scene putting this prices,, not normal people have the change to get nothing new anymore .There are very good dick suckers around.Is all i can see….
This sport will die very soon.
Somebody have to come here and start everything from zero…..
Windsurf = ¨MONEYMAKERS¨
All is running by old windsurfers with egos and is not running by profesional people who take care of the sector.
all best and good luck boy.



Comment by Wise Guy
20. April, 2011 11:19

Let’s see.. Yeaah there’s a bunch of windsurfers out there! This is great! They are so passionate about this sport that they won’t give a hack even if we give them just some equipments and flight tickets while they invest all their lifes on this. Hell yeah! They are that cheap! And the best thing is we could never find more efficient people in another industry that can do research and development and at the same time marketing our products! Ohh wait..! What if they find more efficient ways to make their livings…? Don’t worry there’s always another sheep..

Anxton you did very very good mate!
 
luisete dijo:
Hay un par de comments que me han gustado, los copio y pego. Si alguien no los entiende los traduzco.


Comment by matty
16. April, 2011 19:17

young people will stop doing this sport just because the bad management of some people who think their god.Ridiculous management and ridiculous mind.There are already couple of good guys saying good bye to the tour,seems everything is going totally wrong in this world.
Well done anxton,Do you own thing and fuck this sport mafia.What i see is companies industry are looking to make money from windsurfer(US) and fuck the rest.What a philosophy….
Very bad philosophy,invest minimun to earn the max,,, very bad management,very bad dealers, very bad distribution, very bad media in sport,very bad proyection and very bad people back these scene putting this prices,, not normal people have the change to get nothing new anymore .There are very good dick suckers around.Is all i can see….
This sport will die very soon.
Somebody have to come here and start everything from zero…..
Windsurf = ¨MONEYMAKERS¨
All is running by old windsurfers with egos and is not running by profesional people who take care of the sector.
all best and good luck boy.
Este chaval acaba de escribir la novela del mundo actual del windsurf...

Los jóvenes dejarán de hacer este deporte sólo por la mala gestión de algunas personas que piensan que son Dios. Ridícula gestión y mentalidad ridícula. Ya hay dos buenos diciendo adiós a la gira, parece que todo va totalmente equivocado en este mundo.
Bien hecho anxton, haces lo propio y que le jodan a esta mafia del deporte. Lo que veo es que las empresas están buscando hacer dinero con el windsurf (EE.UU.) y que se jodan el resto. Vaya una filosofía ....
Muy mal la filosofía, inversión mínima para obtener el máximo,,, gestión muy mala, muy malos vendedores, muy mala distribución, muy mal este deporte en los medios de comunicación, proyección muy mala y muy mala gente detrás de esta escena poniendo los precios, la gente normal tiene que cambiar para dar nada nuevo nunca más (?¿ no entiendo esta frase "not normal people have the change to get nothing new anymore") .Hay muy buenos chupapollas al rededor. Es todo lo que puedo ver ....
Este deporte va a morir muy pronto.
Alguien tiene que venir aquí y empezar todo de cero ... ..
Windsurf = "fábrica de dinero"
Todo se está ejecutando por windsurfistas de edad con egos muy grandes y no se está ejecutando por personas profesionales que se ocupen bien del sector.
Te deseo lo mejor y mucha suerte chico.
 
Ademas hay que puntualizar que la situacion del windsurf en nuestro pais es todavia peor que en el resto del mundo.Mirar los participantes de la PWA de Austria.5 Austriacos (vale que juegan en casa, pero en España no hay 5 con ese nivel, y no son solo esos 5, hay mas que yo los conozco) , 4 britanicos, y 0 españoles.Un pais de clima mediterraneo, con las canarias y tarifa como algunos de los spots mas ventilados del mundo, y el resultado.....gente dejando de competir o solo pudiendo competir en sus spots locales, con un campeonato nacional de poco repercusion por falta de apoyos, los medios pasando del deporte, y las marcas muy poco volcadas con las futuras genereaciones.Yo tambien pienso que no quedan 4 dias de tener deporte profesional si algo no cambia.Una pena
 
la verdad es que lleva razon en muchas cosas, aunque se lo ha tomado un poco a la tremenda,,,, eso de "el windsurf va a morir" me parece muy exagerado,
aunque pa esto estamos los jovenes aficionados [platano]
[windsurfing.gif] 4 ever!!
 
Windxurfer dijo:
.... proyección muy mala y muy mala gente detrás de esta escena poniendo los precios, la gente normal tiene que cambiar para dar nada nuevo nunca más (?¿ no entiendo esta frase "not normal people have the change to get nothing new anymore").
Creo que se ha liado con el inglés y lo que quería decir es "la gente normal no tiene la oportunidad ('chance') de obtener nada nuevo más".

Lo cual enlaza con el post de Secret Sails que se abrió hace poco. Yo no creo que el deporte este en peligro, pero la política de las marcas actuales, tal como es ahora ... tendrá que cambiar. No puede ser que un equipo de iniciación básico cueste de 700€ para arriba.
 
Hombre todo esto es una putada. Pero si hay una crisis tan brutal lo normal es que pasen estas cosas y más en deportes tan minoritarios como el nuestro sobre todo en España.
 
Jordi_montcada dijo:
Windxurfer dijo:
.... proyección muy mala y muy mala gente detrás de esta escena poniendo los precios, la gente normal tiene que cambiar para dar nada nuevo nunca más (?¿ no entiendo esta frase "not normal people have the change to get nothing new anymore").
Creo que se ha liado con el inglés y lo que quería decir es "la gente normal no tiene la oportunidad ('chance') de obtener nada nuevo más".

Lo cual enlaza con el post de Secret Sails que se abrió hace poco. Yo no creo que el deporte este en peligro, pero la política de las marcas actuales, tal como es ahora ... tendrá que cambiar. No puede ser que un equipo de iniciación básico cueste de 700€ para arriba.

Qué manía. Te puedes hacer con un equipo como el que usaba yo hace 6 años por 300€. Todo, tabla, vela, botavara, y mástil. No irás a la última, pero podrás hacer casi todo, tanto en olas como freestyle, poca gente llegaría a estar limitada con un material de hace 10 años.

La cosa es que además el freesyle es la disciplina menos valorada... ¿Por qué? Porque es muy complicado, a los ojos de cualquiera sólo es dar vueltas. Y entre mismos compañeros de navegada, parece que levanta más admiración el que va con 1 metro más de vela a toda ostia, y que saca alguna que otra trasluchada medio limpia.
 
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