© 2023 Maciek Rutkowski. Made in Poland.
Site by Brisbane.
🚀 JAK SZYBKO SIĘPŁYWA? 🚀
#kompendiumultrapotrzebnejambitnejwiedzyosportachwodnychmackarutkowskiego
@grupa_pge 🤜🏼🤛🏼
#wspolpracareklamowa
💥 NAJBARDZIEJ WYCZEKIWANY POWRÓT OD CZASÓW N-SYNC 💥
#kompendiumultrapotrzebnejambitnejwiedzyosportachwodnychmackarutkowskiego
Grupa PGE
The 2023 season is a while behind us but when I think about it I still feel a huge array of mixed feelings:
𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗟 for the complete, diverse tour @pwaworldtour put for us and the incredibly tight and high-level competition which makes for most exciting racing ever. I really appreciate being a part of this sport right now! 🤩
𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 with the final result - it feels like it literally took one different decision in one heat of one contest to be writing this as the first back-to-back world champion in a long time - so close to such an achievement it obviously sucks 🥵 I do tend to forget all the good decisions I made but it still feels it was well within my reach and somehow gravity was just pulling me back every now and again to not feel too sure or too confident or something.. Or maybe just test me and I kind of didn’t fail, but I didn’t pass in flying colours either! 😅
𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗗 it’s over - last few years I was going at a million miles an hour and at one point I just ran out of mental space to face adversity (which always comes sooner or later, one way or another). After Sylt I got so depressed it was a realistic option not to even go to Japan. Not the best timing 😂 I pushed thru it, came out the other side and luckily the arrow is pointing in the right direction now, but still a lot of work to make sure it never happens again!
Upset and 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 with what happened on the last days of Japan. Everyone on this tour works incredibly hard with zero guarantees of success. We do it mostly out of love, passion and competitive drive. We all share those values and it creates a level of respect that’s very rare in other sports or other areas of life. So when somebody comes in and seemingly doesn’t care about the rules we all followed for such a long time and which we had a million opportunities to brake, admittedly felt the biggest temptation to gain huge competitive advantage by braking them, but never did, we collectively feel cheated. It’s not a good feeling. Everyone focused on the rider in question, but nobody asked the other riders how it feels when you find out the unwritten pact you patiently followed for 10-12-15 years doesn’t mean to everyone what it means to you.. And then obviously @fmxracing getting caught in the middle of it all thru no fault of it own doesn’t make it any better!
Absolutely 𝗔𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗗 by the conspiracy theories that somehow I control the PWA, tell judges what to do, who to check and who to disqualify! I mean it’s almost flattering! 😂 In that case I only wonder why I didn’t win the last 5 world titles, should be pretty easy even for a talentless F like myself! 😁 One thing is for sure though: haters gonna hate! 🤷🏼♂️ The threats in DMs might be a bit vain tho, next time do it in person please 🤡
Super 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗙𝗨𝗟 for the outpour of love and support thru social media. It’s incredible how many of you care and take the time out of busy lives to right a message or a comment with congratulations or support or any nice words. It means a lot and even if I don’t answer them all I see them all and they really give me wings! Thank you thank you thank you! 🙏🏻
𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 for what the future will bring and for how I can build on this season. Big decisions in front of me and so many exciting projects and options and things to do I’m jumping in my chair thinking about them right now 🤓. Growth and progress are some of the most fun things in life for me and I’m starting to slowly see the road ahead and I can’t wait to see what it holds! 🙌🏼
***
Sezon 2023 już chwilę za nami, ale jak o nim myślę to nadal nachodzi mnie cała paleta mocnych, mieszanych uczuć:
𝗪𝗗𝗭𝗜Ę𝗖𝗭𝗡𝗢ŚĆ za kompletny zróżnicowany tour, który złożyło PWA i za niesamowicie wyrównaną rywalizację na wysokim poziomie, która dała najbardziej ekscytujące ściganie w historii. Naprawdę doceniam bycie częścią tego sportu w tak niesamowitym momencie jego historii! 🤩
𝗡𝗜𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗘Ł𝗡𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗘 ostatecznym wynikiem - nadal mam uczucie, że wystarczyła jedna lepsza decyzja w jednym seacie jednych zawodów i pisałbym jako pierwszy back-to-back Mistrz Świata od wielu lat - bycie tak blisko takiego osiągnięcia boli! 🥵 Oczywiście zapominam o dziesiątkach dobrych decyzji, ale naprawdę za każdym razem jak czułem, że byłem blisko grawitacja ściągała mnie na ziemię - żeby przypadkiem się za bardzo nie poczuć czy coś 😂 Może żeby mnie sprawdzić - i niby nie oblałem, ale idealnie też nie zdałem 🤪
𝗨𝗟𝗚𝗔 że już po wszystkim - ostatnie pare lat leciałem milion kilometrów na godzinę i w którymś momencie mentalnie kończy Ci się miejsce na walkę z kolejnymi przeciwnościami (które prędzej czy później zawsze się pojawią!). Po Sylcie byłem w takim dołku, że realną opcją było nie jechanie do Japonii.. Nie najlepszy timing 😂 Ale przebrnąłem, jestem już po drugiej stronie, a strzałka już wskazuje górę, ale nadal dużo pracy, żeby dopilnować, żeby nigdy więcej się to nie wydarzyło!
𝗭Ł𝗢ŚĆ 𝗜 𝗥𝗢𝗭𝗖𝗭𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗘 tym co wydarzyło się w ostatnie dni w Japonii. Wszyscy z touru pracują mega ciężko, bez żadnej gwarancji sukcesu. Głównie napędza nas miłość do tego sportu, pasja i silna chęć rywalizacji. Wszyscy kierujemy się tymi wartościami i stwarza to poziom szacunku, którego próżno szukać w innych sportach czy dziedzinach życia. Więc gdy ktoś przychodzi i w d**ie ma Twój szacunek i zasady, których przestrzegałeś na swojej drodze mając milion okazji, żeby je złamać i na tym dużo zyskać to czujesz się oszukany. To nie jest dobre uczucie. Wszyscy skupili się na gościu, który oszukiwał, ale nikt nie zapytał nas, oszukanych jak się czują gdy dowiadują się, że niepisany pakt, którego cierpliwie przestrzegali przez 10-12-15 lat nie dla wszystkich znaczy tyle co dla nas…
𝗥𝗢𝗭𝗕𝗔𝗪𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗘 gdy czytam teorie spiskowe, że to ja kontroluje PWA, mówię sędziom co mają robić, kogo sprawdzać i kogo zdyskwalifikować! Czuje się prawie zaszczycony! 😂 W takim wypadku tylko się zastanawiać czemu nie wygrałem ostatnich 5 lat, powinno być dość łatwo, nawet dla takiego beztalencia jak ja! 😁 Jedna rzecz jest pewna: hejterzy to hejterzy, no, a tych co mi grożą w prywatnych wiadomościach chętnie bym spotkał i zobaczył czy wtedy będą tacy hop do przodu 🤡
𝗭𝗔𝗦𝗭𝗖𝗭𝗬𝗧 za to gdy widzę całe to wsparcie, które od Was dostaje przez media społecznościowe. Niesamowite ile z Was znajduje chwilę w swoim zajętym życiu, żeby napisać wiadomość lub komentarz z gratulacjami czy miłym słowem. To naprawdę dużo dla mnie znaczy i nawet jeśli na coś nie odpowiem, to zawsze widzę i to zawsze dodaje mi skrzydeł! Dzięki dzięki dzięki!
𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗞𝗦𝗖𝗬𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗘 co przyniesie przyszłość i jak mogę budować na tym roku. Przede mną kilka decyzji i wiele ekscytujących opcji, projektów i rzeczy, o których jak myślę to podskakuje na krześle pisząc 🤓 Rozwój i postęp sprawiają mi ogromną radość w życiu i powoli zaczynam widzieć swoją drogę na najbliższy czas - nie mogę się doczekać co jest za zakrętem! 🙌🏼
Grupa PGE
FMX Racing
CHSwindsolutions
Porsche Centrum Warszawa
AZS Sailing Team Poznań
Adventure Sports
Baltica
Grupa PGE dziękuję za wsparcie!! 🙏🏼🙌🏼 a tą fotę z górą Fuji napewno zapamiętam na długo!GRATULUJEMY❗️🏄 Maciek Rutkowski którego sponsorem jest #PGEBaltica stanął na podium Mistrzostw Świata w windsurfingu PWA 2023, które odbyły się w Japonii.
To był kolejny dobry rok w wykonaniu Maćka Rutkowskiego i kolejne potwierdzające to podium! Rutkowski pokazał w nim dobrą formę i mimo wielu przeciwności podczas całego sezonu, w klasyfikacji generalnej kończy zawody na świetnym, trzecim miejscu! Mistrzem świata w slalomie tegorocznego touru, został Włoch Matteo Iachino, drugi był Holender Amado Vrieswijk, który wywalczył w generalce tyle samo punktów, co Polak (40300), ale to on miał mocniejszą końcówkę sezonu.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE PWA MANAGEMENT BOARD REGARDING THE DISQUALIFICATION OF DEN-37
The PWA is a rider and manufacturer governed association. Rules are set by the PWA Management Board that is elected from the industry and rider members of the association. The rider and industry representatives on the PWA Management Board consult with the members on all matters, including competition rules.
All PWA racing is run on registered production equipment. As such, sails, boards, and foils must be registered by the manufacturers before the start of the season. All participating brands and riders are aware of these requirements.
This is intended to ensure that any competitor has access to the same level of equipment, and so that any advantage through having additional wealth or funding is minimised, creating as level a playing field as possible.
This also creates an environment whereby recreational sailors can also obtain and enjoy using the same high-performance gear as the pros.
For 2023 competitors registered the 3 boards, 6 sails, and one set of foil components that they would compete on for the whole year, at the first event they participated at.
Not all equipment is checked at events as it is expensive and time consuming to do so, but riders are expected to abide by the rules and the responsibility is on the competitors themselves to make sure that their equipment is not in breach of the rules. If they are in any doubt they can request to have their equipment measured to check it for legality. Equipment is checked randomly at events across multiple brands and riders to help ensure that the rules are upheld.
As part of equipment checks at the PWA slalom finals in Japan, sails from top riders were inspected to check for rule compliance. Examples of sails from NeilPryde, Challenger, Severne and Point 7 were collected from the riders.
All of the sails collected were measured, with the battens and cambers removed, and on a flat hard surface with the sails being pulled flat to the ground.
On inspection the Point 7 sail belonging to DEN-37 showed clear and undeniable indications that the sail had been modified from its original factory construction. Marks left from the original construction, such as glue and stitching holes were clearly visible, and normal graphics printed on the sail were obscured where batten pockets had been moved. Neither Point 7 or DEN-37 have denied or challenged this fact.
The Point 7 sail was found to have leech measurements between the battens that were outside of the registered specification by more than 2 cm, and even with the production tolerances of 0.35% applied, were still 1.5cm outside of the registered specification.
To ensure fair consideration, a control sail from another rider using the same Point 7 production sails was also inspected. This sail showed none of the signs of modification that DEN-37’s sail did, there was no glue or altered stitching and the graphics that had been obscured on DEN-37s sail were fully visible. All of the sails measurements were within the acceptable tolerances.
To ensure that all reasonable doubt was eliminated, the measurements of the other production sail were then taken as base measurements, tolerances were applied, but DEN-37s sail was still found to be more than 1.5cm out of spec even with the extra millimetres granted by the variances in the second production sail.
The judges then convened a hearing with DEN-37 to ask him if he could provide any information as to why his sail had been modified, why it was out of the tolerance of the registered specification and to allow him the chance to explain the situation from his point of view and put forward any mitigating circumstances that might justify the discrepancies discovered in the inspection.
The sail had been registered for competition by DEN-37 and therefore needed to be to the correct specification whether used or not, but it was found that it had been used through the year including in Japan.
After hearing DEN-37s evidence, and equipped with the findings of the inspections, the judges reconvened to discuss the situation and decide on whether the rules had been infringed and, if so, what, if any, penalty should be imposed.
The judges were unanimous in their opinion that the sail did not – with all tolerances and reasonable doubt applied – meet the required specification and was therefore illegal for use in PWA racing. The committee found that although DEN-37 may not have used the sail in a counting heat in Japan, that he had used it in valid starts where he could not have known that the heat would subsequently be abandoned, so that this argument was not a valid defence. The committee also felt that although they did not have measurements taken from this particular sail at other events, he had used it in its current state throughout the season, and therefore whether he had used it in Japan or not was not the only consideration.
The judges therefore felt they had no option but to apply the rules which state.
{2.5.3} Equipment Scrutinizing (SLALOM)
(a) Scrutinizing of equipment will be performed either by a PWA Representative, or any member of the PWA Race Crew. A sailor must make his/her equipment available for scrutinizing at any time whilst the event is in progress. Failure to present equipment for scrutinizing may result in disqualification from the respective race or from the entire discipline.
(b) Equipment used by sailors must meet all registered specification and shall not have been modified in any way without prior approval from the protest committee. Modification from the normal specification as delivered by the manufacturer shall not be permitted. For the purposes of this rule, the addition of any extra tack or clew cringles or positions, puncturing of the sail to allow any attachment to provide tension other than devices supplied with the sail as standard or any other attachment or modification that is designed to alter the shape or performance of the sail from the standard supplied configuration shall not be permitted. For the avoidance of doubt, brochure / website specification and or the majority specification of other identical items of equipment may be used as evidence of the standard supplied specification by the protest committee.
(c) Batten types and tension, mast type and tension, adjustment of camber inducers including sanding / filing and the addition of any spacers or other optional devices that are supplied as standard for the adjustment of battens, masts or camber inducers, shall be excluded from this rule and may be adjusted at the discretion of the sailor in question.
(d) Any sailor found to have been using equipment that has not been registered, or equipment that does not meet the registered specification for that particular item of equipment, including the conditions outlined above, shall be disqualified from the entire race discipline for that event.
Therefore, the committee was left with little option other than to disqualify DEN-37 from the event in Japan.
As with any decision by the judges at an event, DEN-37 will have the right to appeal the decision and the hearing may be reopened if significant new evidence can be presented. DEN-37 has indicated that he intends to appeal, although no appeal has been presented at this time and as DEN-37 will be travelling home currently, he will be granted further time to lodge an appeal, should he choose to do so.
The PWA takes the application of the rules surrounding equipment registration seriously and competitors or brands who breach such rules do so with great disrespect to the vast majority of their contemporaries who strive to uphold the rules.
STATEMENT FROM POINT 7 SAILS
Point-7: It was not the first time that our brand has been at the top of the PWA podium and certainly not the last. We proved it in different disciplines and often with new young talents. We are very competitive and work hard on our development and for 2024, as Johan has already signed with us, we are even more motivated to take him back to the top, as he has shown amazing racing skills. We are happy to support PWA in the task in enforcing the checking of riders equipment throughout all events.
Nice to finally hear some truth about the controversial DSQ situation. Its been a very hard 24hours hearing all kinds of personal accusations and excuses for people that broke fundamental rules of the sport we love. Thank you Matteo and congratulations once again 🤙🏼
PWA Japan day4: felt really good out there today👌🏼made a tiny mistake in the semifinal and that cost me a lot as usual 🥵 and then got a nice 2nd place before the wind died.✌🏼 Really trying to stay positive 🤞🏻 Last day of the season tomorrow 😍