Meet Your 2011 FLOW Championships Competitors - CHILE

Age: 35
Years Riding: 4
Stance: Goofy
Other Sports: Surfing, snowboarding, football, swimming, mountainbike
School / Profession: Graduate in Tourism Planification
Favorite / Signature Move: Method 180

Past Awards / Claim To Fame
The 1ST Flow rider Champion in Chile (Flow Tour 2009)

How often do you ride?
2 – 3 times per week

What are your flowboarding goals?
Be the next Kelly Slater in Flowboarding hehehe

What are you doing to prepare for the Championships?
Ehmmm I’m swimming, stretching and trying to imagine the tricks I can made in the right of Durban.

Who do you look up to in the sport and why?
Greg Lazarus, because he is competing against “young guns” just like me!!! Experience rocks! hehe

Name 3 songs on your ideal flowboarding soundtrack
Why can’t this be love – Van Halen
Death – White Lies
La Pachanga – Vilma Palma e Vampiros

Anything Else?
Feel the heat!

Favorites:
      Food: anything you can cook on a Barbecue
      Cartoon Character: Bart Simpson and Kick Buttowsky
      Band: Easy Star All Stars
      Movie: Rocky 4
      Place to Flowboard: Singapore

Age: 20
Years Riding: 2
Stance: Goofy
Other Sports: snowboard, skateboard, windsurf
School / Profession: student of tourism
Favorite / Signature Move: backflip

Past Awards / Claim To Fame
world peace

How often do you ride?
Once a week

What are your flowboarding goals?
World champ sometime soon and get to ride for free more often.

What are you doing to prepare for the Championships?
Trying to get more hours of training and getting mentally prepared for the double barrel.

Who do you look up to in the sport and why?
A close friend of mine for looking natural while riding both stances goofy and regular!

Name 3 songs on your ideal flowboarding soundtrack
Blood in blood out- Jedi mind tricks
Tirate un paso – wachiturros
Dj peligro – coqueta y descarada

Favorites:
      Food: Pizza
      Cartoon Character: reggie rocket
      Band: bob marley
      Movie: Into the wild
      Place to Flowboard: I would love to ride the one in San Diego to be at the beach and have a flowrider too because we don’t have one in Chile.

Age - 28
Years Riding - 3 - 4
Stance -  Prone/Drop Knee
Other Sports: Soccer Surf, Bodyboard
School / Profession: VETERINARY MEDICINE
Favorite / Signature Move: 360 REVERSE ON THE TOP, ARS

Past Awards / Claim To Fame
SINCE SEPTEMBER 2009 DO NOT LOSE A LOCAL CHAMPIONSHIP. THIRD PLACE TWICE, PRONE DIVISION IFC 2009-2010

How often do you ride?
TWICE A WEEK , MORE IN THE SUMMER

What are your flowboarding goals?
FURTHER PROMOTE BODYBOARD DIVISION AND ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO BE PRACTICING THE FLOWBOARDING

What are you doing to prepare for the Championships?
ONLY HARD TRAINNING

Who do you look up to in the sport and why?
OF COURSE BILLY TENNANT AND TYLER DANEK

Anything else?
I'M SO HAPPY FOR GOING TO IFC AGAIN, THANK A LOT TO WAVEHOUSE SANTIAGO AND I HOPE THE FLOWBOARD WILL BE A IMPORTANT SPORT IN THE WORLD SOON! WE HAVE WORK TO!

Favorites:
      Food: BARBACUE!!!!!!! AND PASTAS
      Cartoon Character: BART SIMPSON
      Band:
      Movie: DEEP BLUE
      Place to Flowboard: SENTOSA AND YOUR PEOPLE