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“Working with my psychologist, with all the emotions, just made me believe in myself and in my surfing,” Veselko said. The Portuguese surfer clinched the World’s Junior Tour title later in 2022 and also came back roaring into the senior competitions, recording one of the best total heat scores in the women’s first round at the 2023 ISA World Surfing Games. Realising it was not enough to train in the water or in the gym, Veselko started talking with a psychologist to regain her confidence.Īnd the strategy worked. I wasn’t used to surfing against so many different girls, and some of the best in the world.”

It didn’t go my way and it was kind of a shocker,” Veselko told.

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“I was doing really good in the Portuguese contests and in Europe and then I surfed in my first year in the Challenger Series and it went really wrong. Her best result in the first five stages was 25th, and she soon got discouraged. Once there, however, Veselko quickly realised things would be tougher than they seemed. The 20-year-old surfer advanced to the Women’s Challenger Series in 2022 after an outstanding year on the national tour. Learning to believe in her skills is something that Portugal’s Francisca Veselko also had to do on her journey to the top. That helps because all I can do in any situation is my personal best.

“I'm thinking about what I need to do now to do my personal best. “I have a very strong body, so I believe in my ability to achieve, including in high stress. While that muscle helped her to paddle fast into the line-up, she also tapped into her mental powers to push through the first-round heat. In addition to being an international surfer, Kolla competes in bodybuilding.

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While dealing with a delayed call-up is not something that happens often in surfing, there are other mental battles that surfers face every day, especially considering how many factors in the sport are outside their control.Īthletes have different approaches to training their mind for such challenges, but there is one thing they also have in common – the higher up the ranks the athletes are, the more often you see them giving their mental health as much consideration as they do their physical strength. There's no point in doing anything else because this is the situation. “There's no point in complaining or giving up. _“_I felt like I have to do my best with what I have because this is all I have,” she said. And when she came out of the water, having finished third, Kolla had a smile on her face. With the announcers already describing the moves of the other athletes in the heat, Kolla kept paddling against the powerful waves that kept pushing her backward.ĭespite her late entry into the water, she never considered not competing. So I grab my jersey, start pedalling out the fastest that I've ever paddled out in my life,” Kolla told after her dash to compete. And then when the heat started, they're like, ‘Oh, you're on.

We’re completely on point, an hour early, asking when we're going in.

“We’re just sitting here waiting for the heat. That is the mental battle that Greece’s Alexandra Kolla had to fight at the 2023 ISA World Surfing Games, which are taking place from 30 May to 7 June in El Salvador. Now, imagine lounging in a wicker chair on the shore when you hear that your heat started 10 minutes ago. Surfing at an international competition can be tough on the mind.