Buys wins with one hand
Benonian Matti Buys again showed why he is the country’s top wakeskater, with a spectacular victory at the final round of the 2013 CASA Wakeboarding and Wakeskating Cable Nationals, in Bela Bela, recently.
Buys took to the water despite having surgery on his left middle finger three weeks prior to the event.
The wakeskater injured his finger in the qualifying stage of the third CASA stop and, what he initially assumed was a sprain, turned out to be a break and displacement that required him to have a plate put in.
“I was pretty much restricted to riding with one hand and, because it was my left hand that hurt, it meant that I had to do most of my tricks switched (with the wrong foot forward on the skate), which is basically like throwing a ball left-handed for a right-handed person,” he said.
“It is the sixth time that I have won the national title on the cable, which further confirms that I need to move my focus to other, new and unique forms of wakeskating.”
Darren Turner was close behind Buys and took second place, with Kaylib Louw and Jacques Labaschagne tied in third.
Buys is hoping to get back onto the water as soon as possible and will also focus on starting off well in the boat tour early next year, and the new cable tour that gets underway in January.
