After four days of testing conditions in the perfect freestyle playground of Lanzarote, three times world champion Jose 'Gollito' Estredo (Fanatic, North) and two times world champion Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard, Vandal) raise the silverware at the first stop of the PWA Canaries tour.

The intense week of world-class competition began with the wind refusing to blow on the opening day of competition for the forty-four professional sailors that congregated in Costa Teguise to battle it out at the Lanzarote World Cup.

On day two the bay became a freestyle Mecca allowing the heats to commence in perfect 15-20 knot winds. After a full day on the water the first round had almost drawn to a close, with just the finals left to run.

Day three proved to be a bit of a tease, with only enough wind to finish one heat. But, at least the thirty-five men were one step closer to finishing the single elimination.

On the final day the competitors awoke to a constant breeze allowing the heats to run on time, and the single elimination to draw to a close. By the end of the morning the champions had been crowned, but they had to wait the entire afternoon before they could celebrate. With just enough wind to start the double, Estredo and Offringa endured a nail biting few hours before the competition was eventually cancelled.

The Return Of Gollito

From the very beginning the freestyle wonder kid, and 'Four Dimensions' star, Estredo held the upper hand on the rest of the fleet. Full of confidence due to previous Lanzarote victories, and with a new move in hand, he seemed unstoppable. Estredo exploded into action in the early rounds taking the scalp of anyone honored enough to sail in his heats, often claiming the holy grail of perfect tens from the judges. When it came to the final, he was well matched with Kiri Thode (Starboard, Gaastra), and many on the shore thought it was the end of his dominance. However, a faultless one-handed regular chachoo - technically the most difficult move in the book - launched the world champ back out in front and towards another victory.

The Queen Of Freestyle

No one ever doubted that the two times freestyle world champion, Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard, Vandal) would let her guard down and allow another competitor to pass. The young Aruban flew through her early heats with ease, and claimed her place in the winner's final after out styling Swiss freestyle flavour, Laure Treboux (Fanatic, North).

However, facing Venezuelan Yoli Freites De Brendt (Fanatic, North) in the final was not such a walk in the park. De Brendt had seriously stepped up her game, and was flying round tricks such as spock 540s and flakas right on cue. The heat was close throughout, but the world champion pulled out all of the stops in the second half, with a switch chachoo, one-handed spock 540, and a flaka diablo, putting to rest any thoughts of De Brendt becoming world champion.