Préverenges Beach

Name
Laure Treboux

Age
28

Where do you live?
In Perth, Western Australia – grew up in Switzerland. Both feel like home.

Windsurfer since…
1996

Your sponsors
Fanatic, North Sails, ION, MB Fins and SISA.

3 Songs, you always carry on your player
Ummm. Got a few hundreds tracks even on my small shuffle, can’t do with less.

3 tings you definitely need on a trip.
Simon, my surfboard, music.

3 riders, who inspire you;
Ry Craike for his surfing – love his style and freesurfing carreer, Travis Pastrana for his total lack of fear and talent in everything he does, and Jaeger Stone for his windsurfing - his wave riding and jumping is like no one else’s.

3 greatest movies you watched.
That’s It That’s All, 4 Dimensions, and the Taxi quadrilogy.

Did you have any bad Injuries in your career and how did it happen?
I’m lucky enough not to have had anything bad enough happen to give you a good answer to this question.

Explain how you got into being sponsored?
I guess I trained hard, got some good competition results and love what I do.

Windsurfing is…?
Why I am so lucky to live this life.

Your Favourite place to travel to…
Australia

When I’m 50 years old I…/ after my career I will be…
I’ll still be ripping as hard as Ben Severne.

What is important for you in life besides Windsurfing?
My family and friends, their well being, spend enough time with them, be happy and healthy, and close to either water or snow.

Beer or cocktail?
Beer.

I didn’t become a banker because…
life’s too short to waste it doing something I don’t want to be doing.

Other guys say I am…
worrying too much about what others say and think.

I think I am…
determined and emotional, always trying to do my best with whom and what I love and care for, and always finding a way to avoid having to do anything I don’t like or don’t want to.

I’d never ride at…
Cyclops

Last movie you watched?
Old School.

Last place you have been to?
Esperance

Last song you listened to?
Cobrastyle by the Teddy Bears

Last club you entered?
Got kicked out of it.

Last drink you had?
Coconut water.

Last fight you got into?
With an idiot who thought he could drop into me and my mates’ waves, then crash into me, tell me I was the one who was wrong, and still think he could get away with it!

Last words…
Thanks to everyone who supported me and helped me get to where I am. I’m trying to never forget how lucky I am and always make the most out of it.