Sergio Turegano and Claudia León, first Spanish Junior TT champions: R Kiteboarding

Sergio Turegano and Claudia León, first Spanish Junior TT champions: R Kiteboarding

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La cita nacional, organizada por la Federación de Vela Región de Murcia, se celebró entre los 28 de abril al 1 de mayo en la playa de Las Salinas, ubicado en la región murciana de Los Narejos El valenciano Raúl Arellano impartió en la cita nacional el primer Clinic Junior TT:R, además, Isaac Hernández otro gran regatista de RACE y rider de FREESTYLE, realizó otro clínic sobre entrenamiento, táctica y normas de TT:R

The national event, organized by the Federation of Vela Region of Murcia, was held on the beach of Las Salinas, located in the Bat region of Los Narejos... the Valencian Raúl Arellano gave the first Clinic Junior TT: R... Isaac Hernández another great regatist of RACE and rider of FREESTYLE, made another click on training, tactic and TT standards: R

The Junior Spanish Kitesurf Championship was held in the TT: R (twint tip racing) mode in Los Narejos, in the town of Los Alcázares in the Murcia Region. The TT: R modality is the one chosen as the qualifying modality for the Olympic Youth Games (YOG) of 2018 to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The sports project, on the date bats, began with the headline: KITEBOARDING: The Olympic dream of a few children, achieved during those 4 days of training by master class, cohabitation and competition being the first objective. With the unconditional support of the Federation of Vela of the Region of Murcia and the approval of the Royal Spanish Federation of Vela, there is already an official classification and some Spanish champions.

On the first day before the official championship, Isaac Hernández was able to count on the president of the Be Watersport club, a great regatist of RACE and rider of FREESTYLE, who in the morning made a click on training, tactic and TT: R. standards In the afternoon, with good wind conditions, the boys entered the water to implement everything learned in the morning. After 3 hours at sea it ended the day with a feedback of what had been the training with its appreciation, all supervised from the boat given by the Federation of Sailing of the Region of Murcia. On Saturday, April 29, it began with the official championship and with the registration of the regatists closing the participation with 15 boys and 10 girls aged between 9 and 17, a number of participants never reached in our country in the sport of kiteboarding. Regatists from all corners of Spain and a large number of them from the Canary Islands thanks to the Hijos del Mar de Fuerteventura club.

Once the inscriptions are completed at 10: 00 in the morning, I will give a clinic in the form of a meeting of patterns, the national sailing judge Pedro Reyes, on regulations and rules of sailing with the support of Javier Ipolito, national judge of kite. At the same time as this was happening, the race field was being organized as we had a good wind to start the competition, with the support of the regional judges of kite Eduardo Ramos and Pedro Joaquin Vazquez Gallardo. The competition started with a male fleet race and a female race to get some serial heads out as it was a new kite mode, there was no national ranking on which to base. The final format of competition would be a 3 or 4 regatists at the same time, where the first 2 would be classified in a phase-out to reach a final among 4 regatists where the first posts would be released. A long tour (wind in favor), at full speed, drawing a slalom between an output line, 5 buoys and an arrival line.

The third day was a clinic with the international regatist, Alex Citation. Thanks to their experience in championships the boys were able to begin to understand that in this mode, TT: R there is a very important part of tactic. With a constant wind of about 20 knots, the sleeves were completed in the form of a removal frame. You could see manga after manga the evolution of the boys and a whole show of fast speeds, spins of heart attack buoys and reached finish with 4 regatists within a few seconds of each other. After 3 complete series of race and dismissing the worst result of each regatist, the final computation was in girls: