The secrets of Mitu Monteiro

The Pioneer of Strapless Kitesurfing, decided to unlock the secrets that made him reach the highest step of the World Podium

GKA Kite-Surf World Cup Cape Verde 2019

MITU MONTEIRO

How many times have you looked up the riders landing breathtaking tricks?
You probably thought: I wish I were born able to jump so high, capable of surfing huge waves.

Everything looks easy from the outside, right? You always wondered how they could do it.

Let me tell you something you heard a lot of times in your life: no one is born learned; there are no humans with no limits.

I want to share with you some precious tips that made a difference in my career.

Basic things that people are often used to underestimating and that I consider so important.

As a Rider, as Coach and a Father, I know there are good and bad moments, satisfying and frustrating.

What does make the difference is YOUR motivation.

But how not to lose it?

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Passion is essential

It is the driving force that drives you forward over limits without letting you give up and pushes you to keep trying again and again after failing hundreds of times.

During my kitesurfing coaching trips and clinics, I accept to help only people that have one essential characteristic: Passion

If I see that people are not interested enough and they came there just because their partner or friends forced them to come, I stop and give up.

Believe me, if there is something I am sure of it is that it is impossible to pull out something good from people with no passion.

And this depends only on you..

Believe in yourself

How many times have you been amazed by your own skills?

And you land a trick that you considered too hard for you?

Remember that if you don’t have the goals in your head, if you don’t know where you’re going, it won’t be the case to help you to reach your dreams.

Now you’ll be thinking: “it’s easy to say for you that you were on the world championship”

Believe me if I say that I got it only because I wanted all the way, when I had no economic possibilities, much less a passport that let me travel outside Cape Verde.

I strongly wanted and I made the impossible happen thanks to Passion, as already said, and strong determination.

I believed in myself from the beginning. So you have to do it.

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Don’t get overwhelmed by negativity

Even the bad days taught us something. Even the worst experience let us take home good teaching.

We are not superheroes. Nobody is perfect so, as humans, we must be able to accept failures.

Everyday I tell that to my older son Michael since he started competing in the Italian Surfing Championship.

Do not be lured off your path by your mistake.

Nothing will have to deter you from your objectives. You must, on the contrary, transform your defeat into energy and motivation to achieve your goal.

Do you know what it means to lose a competition by thousandths of a point?
It is frustrating and demotivating. The first ten minutes.

Then, it made me hungrier and gave me the charge to keep training to do it better.