Tiago Geitens, 19 years old, will be one of the competitors of 9° Jet Waves Championship, that happens in the 8 and September 9, 2007, in the Brave Brave, in Itajaí/SC. Check his profile!

The practice of sport increases many teaching in the life of any person. Some choose a modality and they practice it in the weekends, already another dive of head in the sport and they are devoted the possible maximum and they learn how to have discipline to workout always and dedication for not giving up in front of the challenges. Tiago Geitens, 19 years old, he is a guy that takes the sport seriously. Now he is a manager, in the branch of construction materials in Canoas City, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, city where he also live. Tiago is pilot of Jet Ski, a modality of radical sport, that challenges the limits and the concentration power of who practices it.

That adventurous, that said he is crazy, began early in the world of the radical sports and he can always count with the incentive of the family for that: "It began with my father, that always liked radical sports, he got to run of motocross for some time, when young. Then when my brother was new, my father bought 2 jets, and that is how everything began. I began when I was 5 years old, in Barra of Ribeiro, RS. I remember how it was today: my brother took me to walk in a kawasaki SXI 750, and jumped in the water, I usually, accustomed to see, as they did, I continued to walk. It was fantastic! My brother and my father always motivated me a lot. My brother ran of jet of 1994 up to 2001 and he always gave me many tips, trainings and many good things. Lorenzo Zaluski, friend, also always helped me to workout, with some clues, tips. We went to the world championship together in 2004 and 2006. The fact that motivated me a lot, and it marked mine beginning, it was I to have won the championship of Santa Catarina in my first year, in 2003, and for just a point of difference of the placed second, the category ski stock. Until today I can't stop. If I am one week without ride a jet, I stay already crazy, nervous, stressed", says.

And a lack of time to do everything that he wants is one of the largest challenges to him. Now he divides his time between the work and the sports, since he is not studying because he intends to travel to Italy to improve his knowledge in foreign languages. Besides Jet Ski, he also runs of kart and in the vacations he practices wakeboard with the friends. The taste for the kart came through the cousins, Christian and Matheus Castro, and of the uncle, Luís Alberto Ribeiro of Castro, that always ran of kart and they ended for stimulating Tiago to run also. He didn't resist and it ended up changing the soil for the water, which in the winter is a great challenge, but anything that an appropriate clothes doesn't solve.

Company is what doesn't lack for Tiago: "In the jet ski I always train racing with my friends Lorenzo Zaluski and Nélio Azeredo. Already Free Ride with Fábio Teixeira, that is beginning now in the Jet Ski. The kart always practices with Christian Castro, and Matheus Castro". He doesn't have anything to complain of the companies, but of the incentive lack and patronage has, that are the parts most difficult of the sport. But the good things that he finds they compensate as, for example, to know new people, different places, to travel for the world, to win many friends. Unassuming the parents' incentive, Ademar and Lisete, his brother Ismael, and of the friends that with him, that end up still stimulating more the sport in the life of Tiago.

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