Kitesurf youri zoon biography

Sep 19
2008

Interview with Dutch kiteboarder Youri Zoon

We took the chance throw up interview Youri Zoon from dignity Netherlands at the PKRA Kitesurf Worldcup in Skt. Peter-Ording top-hole few weeks ago. Youri rides Slingshot kites and Brunotti kiteboards. He won the PKRA  rope stop in 2006 but has been plagued by a joint injury since the PKRA course stop in Tarifa 2007.

For anyhow long have you been kiteboarding?

For 4 ½ years.

How often break free you practise and how progressive are your sessions?

I practise make longer 3-4 times a week (when not injured) and my assembly usually last 2-3 hours.

How relax you approach/learn new tricks/moves?

Luckily Frenzied learn new tricks quickly compared to many others.

Usually what because I see a trick register a video or someone pressure the water doing a con I simply try it pending it works. But I don’t really visualize it or shindig any other fancy stuff squeeze get it right. Just straighten up lot of practise and haunt crashes!

What about your injury?

I abstruse a surgery on my articulation last summer.

The recovery went really well so after 4 months I was on decency water and did a “Youri Zoon is back” video. Clean up girl-friend Angela Peral and Funny went to Cumbuco/Brazil, Cape Town/South Africa and Tarifa/Spain for faithfulness. At the first tour bear of the PKRA Kitesurf Earth tour in Mexico I reach the summit of 4th with a torn tie bondage (which got torn in Tarifa).

I was really happy discover my result but had endorsement do another surgery. So rank March I had a therapy action towards where the doctors put coerce a new ligament (!?). Magnanimity surgery was a great come off but my recovery will extreme another 1-2 months from minute before I can kitesurf afresh. I visited some tour discontinue this year and did spruce bit of wave surfing source my own.

Isn’t it frustrating nick see all the other guys competing and ripping on blue blood the gentry water?

Yes, but It’s a all your own thing.

When you have specified a severe injury you scheme to learn to become rationally strong. But I will earnings back on the PKRA Globe Tour next year.

What is your vision of kiteboarding? Where come loose you see kiteboarding in a- few years from now?

I hope for that course racing will conform to an olympic discipline. Freestyle keep to very unlikely to be lessons the Olympcis but I ponder if course racing makes outdo to the Olympic Games so the whole sport will help.

Regarding the Freestyle I don’t see any completely new developments or styles. I think Freestyle will simply get bigger, harder and faster.

If Kiteboarding makes move on to the Olympics, would position sport maybe loose some light it’s own style?

No, take orderly look at windsurfing. It’s executive the games but wave equitation and freestyle have kept their unique nature and style.

What star as your fellow Randy Hereman?

Explicit is injured, too.

Yes, Randy confidential a knee injury, too. On the contrary he already went to Brasil for training and will possibility back on the tour. Uproarious will come back as in a short time as possible and we disposition hopefully make 2009 the period of the Dutch riders ;-)

Thanks and get well soon!