

Kauli Seadi manages the every-day-life of a professional windsurfer with remarkable consistency. That is the main reason why he was able to become a wealthy man at home. He is ambitious and besides his aim at sports, he also strives for a business goal.
Kauli Seadi is 27 years old, three-time-world champion in the supreme discipline Wave, owner of a brand new surf station in Brazil and product developer for JP Australia and NeilPryde. Right now he is regarded as the world’s best wave windsurfer. He has already bought new properties, which are supposed to become holiday complexes or a part of the “Kauli Seadi institution”. Therefore, he does not only support his living, but also the local development at his hometown Ibiraquera, Brazil. All in all, Seadi is well on the way to becoming as successful, as the surf legends Robby Naish or Björn Dunkerbeck.

The young Brazilian embodies the 21. century’s professional windsurfing sport like scarcely anybody else. For his consistency in all of the things he does, he is known and admired by everyone in the windsurfing trade. Who wants to be on top, has to fight. This means a hard everyday life and requires severe discipline. The 27-year olds daily routine is therefore tightly organized. He does not only complete three to four hours of training on water every day, but he also does Pilates training or another fitness sport for two hours. Moreover, he is busy with material development and his surf station.


“Since I was 15, I have to deal with many important decisions and have to take charge of matters, which other kids at this age are not used to. That is how I became sort of a business man with an office on the beach”, Seadi laughs. Everything evolved perfectly for him. A fact that is due to his tireless discipline. Seadi leaves nothing to chance. “I don’t really believe in misfortune, I think when something goes wrong, it is often just the consequence of bad preparation.”
Even in school he was far ahead of the other children. Everything Kauli did, he did very assiduously and geared to his aim: earning money as a professional windsurfer. Already at the beginning of his career, when he was only 15 years old, he used the professional training support of his founder and first benefactor; the firm Mormaii (Manufacturer of surf suits). Not even the world class’ windsurf training is guided. Most sportsmen do training without even having a coach in all conscience. Nevertheless, Kauli follows his principles and leaves nothing to chance. “I have already been working together with coaches a couple of years. At Mormaii we have got a strict training system with yoga, swim training, nutritional consulting, fitness equipment training and a personal trainer for our persistency. That is how I have learned to stay fit, while I am en route”, Kauli Seadi explains.



Usually, the young Brazilian is in transit for eight months a year. International competitions, photo shootings and material tests demand a great deal of him. He only spends approximately four months at home in Brazil, when the PWA World Tour (Professional Windsurfers Association) takes a break in winter. Meanwhile, he is busy with his projects, which are supposed to bestow a high living upon him after his windsurfing career: his surf station, a holiday complex and the “Kauli Seadi Institution”, which supports less privileged children. World champion Seadi is radical and down-to-earth at the same time. He is businessman and adrenalin junkie.
“I know that it is a very huge luck to turn his passion into a career and to be able to live on it”, the ambitious Brazilian says. “Windsurfing offered me many great chances, which I will try to use.”
The 27-years old character is marked by a huge candidness for new things, healthy and congenial ambition and enormous curiosity. “While travelling so much and becoming a man of the world, one learns many new things and one’s character changes. It is possible to get to know many different perspectives of life and different cultures. I know that this is like a mercy for me”, Seadi says. Nevertheless, he sometimes wishes to spend more time with his family in Brazil. His girlfriend Emanuela understands the profession of her partner. Kauli Seadi also wants to have an own family some day. “But not now”, he says. He wants to wait until he will be at home more often and will be able to take care of his family.

The smart Brazilian is doubtlessly a mercy for his sport. He lifted the level of wave windsurfing by creating maneuvers, which nobody believed in. Most of his colleagues still consider them as impossible. One of the best examples might be the Seadi Move: In 2007 he showed the trick in Pozo, Gran Canaria for the very first time in a competition. At first he rotated through a backwards-contorted push loop, before he did a front loop. He managed to connect two very difficult maneuvers and set a new standard in the discipline wave riding.
“In life one has to use his chances and prospect for new possibilities. It took many years to advance my style and my ability. Now I have got partners, who support my personal performance with the development of my equipment even more”, Kauli Seadi says. “He is not only very good at windsurfing, but he is also able to give an excellent feedback to many open questions”, NeilPryde’s chief developer Robert Stroj, who supports Seadi with the material development, explains. “Kauli possesses a lot of energy, works very intensive and has got a fresh and unknown perspective on many things. I even ask myself, if the windsurfing world is poised for such a character”, he adds. That is what we hope because the Brazilian climber’s following personal development, enriches the sport in an amazing manner.
Personal Data
Date of birth: December 20th, 1982
Nationality: Brazilian
Lives in: Ibiraquera/Brazil (approximately 70 kilometers to the south of Florianopolis) and Maui/Hawaii
Size: 174cm
Weight: 70kg
Website: http://www.kauliseadi.com.br
Sailnumber: BRA-253
Successes
2008 PWA World Champion Wave
2007 PWA World Champion Wave
2007 1st Mormaii Ibiraquera Wave Contest, Sal, Cabo Verde 2nd, Guincho 2nd. 1st Tiree
2006 PWA vice World Champion Wave
2005 PWA World Champion Wave
2004 PWA World Champion Super-X
2003&2004 PWA vice World Champion Freestyle
National results: Three-time Brazilian junior champion
First PWA victory: Freestyle Fuerteventura 2001
PWA debut: 2000
Sponsors
Mormaii, JP Australia, NeilPryde
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