Summer Time.

I returned to Denmark a couple of weeks ago to meet up with my family and do some contests. I had just enough time to drop some stuff at home before hitting the road again, but now with the Wolthers gang. The plan was to make a family attack on the second stop of the Danish Surf Tour. In total we were 8 Wolthers ready to battle in the uncommonly warm waters of Klitmoller against the best Nordic surfers. Unfortunately Mother Nature didn’t cooperate with the waves, and the contest was called off.
Instead, the event organizers – namely Mike - decided to hold stand-up paddle races – with a team challenge race and an individual “long” distance race. In the team division, the Wolthers team was formed by my litlle bro Jonas, my dad, our newest family member- Leandro Rasta-man Wolthers and myself. Even though we have only paddled on a few occasions before we gave it a good go and came in second place, behind the Klitmoller-locals, led by Jonas “muhh” man. On the individual race I had a bad start, falling off my board after colliding with other racer. But I managed to come back into it and place a pretty cool second place – once again.
This was my first time racing on SUP´s and I loved it. Differently from surf contests, where the winner is decided by subjective analysis, there is no secret in deciding who wins a SUP race. I liked this thing so much that I’m joining the Danish team for the Stand Up Paddling World Cup in Hamburg at the end of August.
Other than that I’ve been staying with my family and enjoying the Danish summer. At this moment im on my way back to Klitmoller where the plan is to stay the rest of the summer training, drinking coffee with the Hurley crew, and giving a couple of surf Lessons before the contests begin.
Shaka!