Champi Delivers! We Have Our Winners | Taiwan Daily

Alright guys, I'm going to do a live podium with you at the moment. We've just finished. It's 12 o'clock in the day and we have finished event at what a crazy day. I mean we went from yesterday people being helped into the water to I think the ladies final. The men's semis could have been 20 to 25 knots maybe less. I think as that came off the water claiming that it had done a 6 meter jump. So we had a lot of upsets just to let you know the people in contention for the podium. It's either a listen mint or sarah sedic on the lady's side and on the men's side it's either fin flugal or Hugo Wiggersworth, Hugo Wiggersworth landing 19 tricks in the final wind out on a 7 meter foil kite. I think as this typhoon is getting closer it's sort of brought a lot of cloud and that's taken a lot of the wind away. The judges changed position today. They went up to a bus to get a bit of view. It's got Chris Bull with me. Chris, I mean, dude, was that tough day? I don't know. I think Hugo needs to contact with Guinness Book of Records doesn't he? You see 19 tricks and 15. 19 completed tricks over a 7.5 no crashes, perfect execution like what the hell. It was crazy. I mean, we saw. That's a record, right? It has to be. It has to be. You know, like if you work out that small, like, you know, in 15 minutes that's more than one trick every minute holding your position. That was incredible performance. The finals were completely different from the semifinals. The semifinals, the guys were being challenged by the wind and the conditions and then obviously the final. It just picked up. You go win on the 7 meter foil kite. Again, first time we saw the foil kite and we're waiting, so I'm going to bring you the live podium. As we wait for that, let me give you a few stories of the day as I said. It's only midday. They have been rushing it because the pending typhoon is coming. On the men's side and the semifinals, Martin Clubliske, changed kites, went to the trigger and just rode super well, Maxwell Dyle couldn't seem to find anything and Bistley disappointed to be knocked out of that. Finn Fogel for his Timo great heat. Well, we've got the podiums. I was just saying that Hugo knocked out the num-1 scene, Zach Adams in the semifinals, but third place is Francesca Mani, second place Sarasadik. So that means your champion on the women's side winning a ticket to the Red Bull King of the Air Ladies division is Alyssa Minch. Super happy for Alyssa. The whole week she's been saying, you know, I say, I think you can do this a listen. She was quietly confident and just went about a business today. Such an amazing performance. The tears are flying on the lady's side. I don't know, something's happened. She's gone down. She's broken the Red Bull sign. That's all on. And now she's dropped a board. I'll just let you listen to the audio. And they're going to be handing out some hope there. All here come the chicks. We like chicks. We like chicks. We will obviously catch up and talk to Alyssa after she gets off the podium. So I can see Finn there. He's got his board. Hugo's got his board. I can't see Martin Clubisky. He was down on the beach, actually. Martin's over by the shower. I should probably tell Martin to hurry up. Martin is in the shower and he's working towards us very slowly, but it was also very, very happy. Did Chris Ball give us a little spoiler away there? 19 tricks and 15 minutes from Hugo. We're good with. So super interesting. A very challenging day all around for the riders. Very challenging on the crew. Sergio Cantigale as usual manages to whip these events together. And yeah, great. By the way, the local team has been absolutely amazing. Here come the chicks. Let me tell you the amounts. Third place. 500 euros. That's going to be on the bar tonight. Thank you. A lot of photos going on. They do everything very efficiently. Every single thing has to be a photo. In second place, Sarasadik, 1,000 euros. Another photo. The girls are stoked about the money, which is good to see. And it must be over going this way. This sounds like a F1 to set the formula one presentation. And Alissa mentioned backing up a win in lots of tram. Having a fantastic year. Second in the world in the GK. Two big podiums this year. On her way to the Red Bull, King of the Year, ladies division. Been presented the trophy. Hopefully we'll get someone to get photos because I can't do it all. Now let's see the chick. The chick is 1,500 euros. Jason van der Spay. That money's half yours. She doesn't want to do a hands of full. She's got board. She's got trophy. She's got money. She's got the championship and the title. Chris, it's a great presentation. Now we have it. Now we're getting the media girl who's ferociously kicked me out of the bus today. The difference between first and second place was. Are you dropping spoilers? No, not really. But you know, the variety one at four. There we go. You heard it there first. Sarah's actually tricked scores were slightly higher. We're still doing failures by the way. She cheered all her tricks from the way in. So she did well, but she needs third. Yeah. I think she knows that. She already said I need to work on the side more on her repertoire. And then she, because her loops are very legit, you know, very legit. Yeah, it's really well. The girls are still on the podium. They've got Red Bulls. They're shaking Red Bulls. There's no champagne here. It's only Red Bull, everybody. And let's say men's trophy in the air. Very happy. There's a big smile on her face. Oh, what a great presentation. They're going to be drunk on Red Bull. They are. I always like it when they give Sarah to the girl champagne, because she doesn't drink. Who with a champagne is like me and you with a Rubius cube. Yeah. Now we are waiting for the guys to come up. I'm sure the guys will be next. I see Martin. He's over a big smile on his face. Obviously Finn, the Hugo Wuggersworth in the head. He says he's quietly confident. Close actually. Yeah. Second for the men's as well. Big decision for him to take that foil card out. He hadn't used it all day, but he was like, I think it's a good decision. Yeah, you heard it here first. Martin from Germany. Martin from Germany. Martin from Germany. Martin from Germany, third place. By the way, unbelievable performance to beat Maxwell Dow, Maxwell Dow. Just couldn't get firing today, but he didn't just take that opportunity. He took an opportunity with both hands. Holy shit. Finnflugel is second, which means your champion is going to be from New Zealand going to co-der this year for the first time. Here you guys Wuggersworth. Well deserved. What a legend. Beautiful road today. So disappointed to miss our last year. So disappointed not to be in last year. And he's on top of the podium. He's won a World 2nd World Championship this year in Hydrofall. Now he's won the Red Bull King of the Air qualifier. He's in brother. He's going straight to Cape Town now. He told me big, small and space. I mean, what a day. But by the way, let's be fair. He has been riding well the whole event. He's been, I think he hit the highest score of both days. Legit. Legit as like super good. Consistent. I was going to say 19 tricks over 7.5 in 15 minutes. Like flawless. Absolutely flawless. And they took your advice. I gave it to them. Get your ass up in the river. Seriously, yeah, I'm glad he did that. I noticed. Guys, make it easy on the judges. Sometimes it pays to know people who are no judges. If you go on the podium now with the trophy, with the money, big smile on this face. They're obviously not very happy. But listen, there's been a absolutely amazing competition. I'm just going to get out there and get a little bit more quiet so you can hear me a little bit more. There will be probably about 10 minutes of photography. But I think I've seen a Chris, that's how he won. He won by putting the work on the water, putting that variety 19 tricks. It's an incredible performance, a bit of a disappointing day for the French riders. The French riders just didn't seem to fight today. A lot of them training back are theirs. This was just wild conditions. And I guess it's a bit of a wake up call for those guys as well. You've got to get out of that flat while you've got to challenge yourself in riding conditions. The cream rides are the top guys. That's what happens. You know what? I'm just going to have a break here, guys. Enjoy this myself. And then I will catch up with some of the winners and bring you a little bit more of the action. But we still have Hugo on the stand there. Trophy, money. You owe me money, Hugo. Now we have some important guys standing between the two champions. They're out there. Hugo's not even smiling anymore. He's just, if that is a smile, I have no idea what it is. Just the normal day produced for nobody. 19 tricks in 15 minutes, man. By the way, keep it short. It was worth the wiggle. He did it all the time. I think no one's ever done that, actually. 90 tricks in one. That's a trick. That's a trick. Less than one minute. I thought you said you were going to college. Do the math. 40 seconds. That's why I'm failing. but overall it's been an absolutely amazing event here really challenging conditions really tough conditions almost a bit flat today at times but when the final happens the man's final in particular man it was a crazy man's final I'm here with Martin Kabushki Martin mate I know how disappointed you are with me can also how disappointed you were to miss out on cold away this must feel pretty good yeah it feels insane I mean I train the whole summer just cutting a lot and I mean I think you learn a way more from losing and this time I definitely paid off and yeah super stoked like now Kabton training and then hopefully Kota there's good things to learn here as well you know I mean you know I know I see young guys coming all the time they're like man I want to make final straightaway but it's tough you know and sometimes you need to run your luck and you need to ride you think this time change kites went to the went to the trigger from the banger big difference I think yeah for sure now I was super used to to both kites in summer but then for me it's really depending on what I ride the last week like I it's it's quite different so both both the insane kites but for this conditions it was very nice and I think this kite suits me so well so I'm super happy to perform like this and come first Red Bull comp so yeah now we're gonna wait a few days see if you make it I think this is the kind of performance you need to get in front of the judges right? yeah for sure and I also did the the entry like last day Terefa I got some good clips so I was I was like quite happy to then just go into the competition no real pressure because my my entry was too bad so yeah I think the performance was was hopefully good enough well I mean let's talk about the semi-final big win over your mate Max I mean that was awesome to see that's when I really thought oh man you're really turned on because let's be fair I think going into that you were sort of just getting through your heats you know just going through it but that was when you really stepped up yeah for sure now with Max it just felt like a normal training session just a day of wicker yeah just a day of wicker and the wind dropped so it was quite quite hard but then if you guys were good so yeah now it was so much fun competing congratulations bro thank you I'm here with runner-up Fin Flugel super tough day right I mean you rigged a big kite you had the small kite it was just you didn't know what to take yeah definitely was hard day but man I enjoyed it so much it was actually refund like I don't know I had like fun competing against so yeah I really enjoyed it and yeah I mean the end second was yeah not what I hope but I mean I'm happy with my performance and now hopefully looking forward to king of there I mean I know how disappointed you are you're such a competitor you're gonna get down to Cape Town early and start preparing I'm sure you're gonna get through on the video is that the plan yeah I'm gonna go I think around the 5th of November and then yeah get training in and yeah just have fun and yeah hopefully do the same in Kota looking back at the final I know you had the you had the fly surf on the beach at any stage you think you're gonna you gonna go and jump on that kite because it was so marginal even me I didn't know whether to run down and get Hugo's kite he looked overpowered you were putting up big scores and I even I did not to do yeah definitely it was intense final yeah I saw I'm gonna stick with the two criteria to get the dangle pass on maybe like a kite look KGB so yeah but then the wind picked up and I was pretty good on my nine actually and yeah I saw they had it with the impression score but just sort of a different yeah wasn't very close but congrats with it great job on the Sonic as well as the back so yeah man I hope you're with the comp my good luck brother see you in Cape Town thank you I hope you guys I'm here with man at the moment means winner Hugo Wyrgelsworth 19 tricks over 7.5 I think one was seven but let's say 19 tricks over 7.5 I think it was 12 over 7.5 and I landed 19 out of 19 in 15 minutes mate I might my way sounded a lot better but I mean I mean what a performance I mean actually to be honest man since you've been here you've pretty much been scoring the highest tricks the whole the whole competition yeah yeah honestly I'm probably surprised by that because I came to this event I mean to less than to even less than two weeks ago at Puckle I literally launched my kite smashed myself into some rocks like an absolute kook and then here I come here and win against the best some of the best guys in the world I mean bruised ass I believe some stitches as well we're in two pits two sets of bike pants and some padded stuff to support I mean when you come here you said look I'm a little bit injured but where did this performance come from I think I think my I don't know I think it's just been coming for the last two years to be honest I think now that I've really got the competition experience and not feeling too much pressure I mean last year at the qualifier and to refer I got to the semi-finals and then just cooked it due to the pressure I think and then yeah this event I was really locked in and yeah didn't crash too much so that was the key well didn't crash at all on the final let's talk about the final big decision the wind had dropped down I mean the wind was pretty funky today compared yesterday went for the seven-metre sonic in the final I know it was the right call but at one stage the wind picked up and I actually text useful and said should I go and get his nine meter ready just in case you wanted to change but was it the right decision in the end oh absolutely and I had a good feeling of the wind conditions because I was in the last semi-finals so which was just like 20 knots had dropped to 20 knots basically so had to really scramble through that heat and then yeah the sonic was absolutely the right choice and also you guys wrote the final a different spot right you know we're sort of today we've been writing down on the beach I know that doesn't give you any reference but we sort of went back to where we were writing which but back up in the river mouth was a bit up there I mean I actually had a bit of an advantage because the boys when the heat started weren't up there and I was already there and then yeah we could go left and right in some nice flat water which is really good and then I was the only one who in the last five minutes I was like all right I'm gonna do something different here and I went into the waves and to the kickers and I got some really big jumps then I think the judges get a slightly different angle looking at you and stuff so yeah what was cool is you know when Chris ball was speaking to him after and you got him earlier it's the first time I feel like they've really given the four kites a bit of love you know in the past they've always sort of pulled them back maybe with the GK judging a little bit but it was great to see them rewarding yeah I mean at the end of the day big ears all about high travel distance you know and my kite angle is pretty good I'd say now compared to the tube kites and especially in those lighter conditions that's you know I think I do have a slight advantage and that's what you need to win these events yeah beating Fern was a little bit of a punch in the face because the second time you've been in my row now he must be getting a bit sick of that but you know obviously he was disappointed it was very professional after but looking forward to King of the Air now what's the plan you got stuff to work on are the foil kites part of that plan have you got more stuff you can bring to the table I mean 19 tricks how many of those were different they were all different I was doing Contra's left right kite loops left right I guess the only thing that I was missing versus Finn was the unhooked move I've an unhooked and over two years so not sure how that's gonna go learning that stuff but this spot really favoured me because I it was right foot forward mostly so I was really most of my highest growing chicks were kite loops to the right so I think I need to go to Cape Town really lock in those left foot forward kickers yeah I mean you spent lots of time in Cape Town now Billy disappointed to miss out last year on this event I mean how cool is us that you don't have to worry about your video now you're in I think this probably give you a good seat as well yeah hopefully yeah it's so nice having a guaranteed spot I've been waiting for that for a long time so I mean let's hope we can continue that tradition you know with the Kiwi's doing well there you know that that black jersey then from this black jersey that mark war I mean can you go ahead and win that in Cape Town I mean is that is that possible now I mean it's definitely gonna be some you know the Cassades and there and it'll be pretty hard to be them that's to be honest but I don't know I surprise myself here that's see what I can do over there everyone was so happy make congratulations dude and mate I can't wait to see you in Cape Town yeah see you in Cape Town cheers okay guys I'm signing off from here in Taiwan but I want to shout out to a few people first of all Tony from the spot who's just been an absolute legend looking after us letting us use this car and just been an all-around amazing host I want to shout out to the team at Rebel Taiwan for putting on amazing show also big shout out to the local fighters from the area Ram the million dollar man Max who also were so amazing and helping out at all times I also want to shout out to Kerry and Scott who have been helping out so many ways whether it's getting us food or helping run us round and pick us up and drop us off it's been absolutely awesome to have you guys supporting not just me but the girls and the guys here as well I'll be back on Monday with an interview with Zach Adams and then it will be back to regular programming next Thursday with a megapod it's been an amazing event thank you for everyone who listened thank you for people who shared and I'm out of here