http://www.efpt.net/newsdetails.php?n_id=362

“My goals for 2010 are to compete at some EFPT events and to train so much as possible to get to a higher level. In two and a half years I want to leave Switzerland and go to Brazil or to the caribics to train very hard. After that training time I want to take part at the PWA and do good results! That are my goals and I’m going to do everything to achieve them. So be on your guard!“

EFPT: Hi Loick, how are you doing?

Loick Spicher: Hello Dominique! Everything is okay, the summer is coming so I’m super motivated like never before for the season.

EFPT: It´s now less than 3 weeks till your first start in an EFPT event. But let´s go back a bit. How did you come into windsurfing? 

LS: My parents surfed already before I was born. They went every summer to Greek islands. So I got really early on the surf Board. My father always wanted me to learn surfing. At the beginning I made only small sessions because I couldn’t watch my friends playing football without me. After I got the feeling of planning I enjoyed the sport more than before and went more often on the water. But I never got really addicted until I made my first air jibe in the summer 2007. I think that was the real start of my freestyle windsurfing interest.

EFPT: Last year you won the JP-Australia/Neilpryde Young Guns Camp in Prasonisi judged by the Neilpryde international team around Kauli Seadi. How was it to get awarded by those great riders?

LS: Actually I participated two times at the camp and I can say that it was a really good thing. You have the opportunity to talk and sail with those pro’s, what was a big motivation for me. Both times I had a lot of fun during this camp. The fact of winning the camp pushed me really forward. I was so lucky when I was told that I won the competition a second time. To get awarded by Pro’s like Kauli and Yegor was surely a big thing that I will never forget.

EFPT: On the JP-Australia website you got your place at the Young Guns section. There you say “In two and a half years I want to leave Switzerland and go to Brazil or to the Caribbean to train very hard.“ Is being a professional windsurfer the thing you always wanted to do?

LS: I can’t say that because when I was younger I had many other sports in my head. I can remember that I dreamed to become an Ice-hockey pro. I had always the idea to get a windsurf pro but as a swiss guy it was just hard for me to keep on that idea. That’s just because I sailed only several times during the year and effectively during the summer. But since I won the first time the Young Guns Camp It became my biggest motivation to become a pro windsurfer.

EFPT: You live and go to school in the western Switzerland in the city Fribourg. How does your everyday life look like?

LS: It’s almost always the same. School, training, school, training, homework and sleep. This year my father, who studied sport, established me a training plan for the season. So I have different training phases. I’m training two times a day, at midday and at the evening. Those trainings are for my physical condition. We try to find exercises that are close to the windsurfing movements and that help me to make a faster progress. Besides the training and school I love to play Basketball with my friends or just have fun with them.

EFPT: Do you often miss school because of windsurfing?

LS: I would if I could but it’s forbidden to miss school. The only thing I can do to make a request for some additional days off. I just asked for 5 days, from 11th-16th of April. At this time I will stay in Leucate to participate at the Mondial du Vent.

EFPT: Are there other boys and girls windsurfing under your friends and classmates?

LS: I know nobody particularly in Fribourg who is freestyling too. But I have friends from all over Switzerland with whom I’m meeting at the lake to train. I also want to motivate my sister who is 12 years old and take her with me on the water. We just bought her the a new JP Kids freestyle board so she will be able to start training the air jibe in Leucate.

EFPT: Do you have a girlfriend?

LS: No, not at the moment, but I’m looking around ; )

EFPT: A lot of EFPT riders lead a double life between windsurfing and higher education. Do you have some plans to go to the University?

LS: Yes, of course, now I want to finish high school. After that I will try to get 100% into windsurfing for a period, maybe work in a windsurf school or something else, and after that I will begin to study maybe Sports and marketing. I’m also learning Spanish at the moment so maybe once I will be a sports teacher on the Canary Islands, who know’s ; )

EFPT: How do your parents think about windsurfing?

LS: As I said they are also surfing. At the beginning I had to convince them to bring me more and more around but now it comes like a habitude. They just want that I’m promoted at school and that I’m good boy.

EFPT: As a windsurfer living in Switzerland you are somehow used to traveling. What do you have in bags when go on a windsurfing trip?

LS: My clothes, computer, i-pod, phone and always a camera.

EFPT: What to do you expect for the Mondial du Vent? 

LS: I hope that the event is gonna be great. I hope for wind and good conditions for everyone. Personally I’m not expecting anything else than fun and I hope to make the best out of my heats! See you there!!