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| A windsurfer comes into the beach where the Surf4you Open Cup will be held on Friday - Photo: Michael Smith |
Races for the second annual Surf4you Open Cup at Surf4you International Windsurfing School will start at 12 midday with registrations opening at 9 am. If the conditions aren’t suitable for racing the event may be changed to the day after.
“I want to invite spectators and competitors. Everyone is welcome to register no matter what the level,” the race organizer and kitesurfing school owner, Andrey Zabolotnyy, said.
Competitors will each race seven downwind slalom events over a four kilometer course.
The first prize is a Neil Pryde sail.
Zabolotnyy, 24, who first started windsurfing in Vladivostok when he was nine, said the event would test competitors’ fitness.
“Many people from Vladivostok are already training for the event and they will stay in Mui Ne until the Vietnam PWA Grand Slam that starts February 25,” said the Russian, who has been coaching windsurfing in the resort town for five years.
Dozens of competitors were making use of strong wind conditions on Sunday to train for the race. Many of the windsurfers from Vladivostok in Mui Ne windsurf all year round by coming to Vietnam during their hometown’s offseason.
The windy season in Mui Ne is a few months late this year.
A local freestyle windsurfer who will be racing, Chiga Somogyvari, from Hungary said he likes to race in downwind slalom events the best because they are so fast.
Surf4you is at 90 Huynh Thuc Khang St. in Mui Ne, tel: 1233397716, Website: www.surf4you.ru.
