Sport played a big roll throughout my life. Being an professional volleyball player from age 15-22 (Dutch National League, Youth National Team). After getting injured in volleybal I was forced to finish my career. Looking back at this, it also gave me one of the best things in life: ‘Windsurfing’. The classic how to turn something bad into positive helped me to step up my game as an windsurfer. 2 years later I had my first world title in speedsailing, broke in to select group of 50 knots on 500m. The year after I could defend my title and in 2019 I took the Dutch Speed Record with 52.49 knots (0.7 knots away from the world record).  Spending time on the water with friends or in some of the most beautiful places in the world is something I would have never thought about doing 10 years ago.