Steve Allen (Australia/Poland)
20 Questions
// 20 Questions with Steve
Full Name: Steve Allen
Nationality: Australian
Date of Birth:December 27th, 1973
Resides: Warsaw, Poland
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 82kg
Windsurfing Since: 1983
A Pro Since: 1993
Family: Wife, Two Kids
Favourite Book: Lance Armstrong
Favourite Surf Spot in the World: Tweed Coast, Australia - my home spot!
Biggest Achievement: My two kids, Eva and Andy
Hobbies?: Surfing, Snowboarding, Skiing, Squash, Tennis, Golf, Wakeboarding
Ambitions: To win
Party Factor (scale of 1-10): 4 these days
Car Driven: big Mercedes Van
Favourite Food: Fruit; mangoes, picked fresh from the tree
Favourite Drink: fruit juice or a cold beer after a big day
Windsurfing Means?: Freedom, when you are windsurfing you don’t have a worry in the world
Personal Motto: Aim high striving to be the best in what ever you do, try not to have regrets and live every day to the fullest
Biography
// Steve Allen: A Smile, And That’s Enough!
On a prominent Polish street inside the big hall of Urus’ Works, Polish celebrities are getting ready for the final performance of the TVN-TV show “Taniec z Gwiazdami” (the Polish version of ‘Dancing with the Stars’; a show where non-dance experienced celebrities are pitted with professional dance partners and compete against each other in new dance routines each week, with the lowest scoring couples dropped after each episode down to the winning couple). Bodyguards are standing in front of the building; it is messy and chaotic inside. Iwona Szymańska – Pavlović, an important and revered Polish dancer and a judge on this show, wanders through the corridor in front of us and disappears in the small room around the corner. Dancer, Arek Hezler, leans on the wall beside us. This tall, athletic boy, dances each episode as a teaser before the main couples begin.
The show is already 20 minutes behind the scheduled start time. Everybody is in their seats and waiting silently for the start – here we go… Lights! Music! Dance! Steve had arrived in a black t-shirt, with black pants. He is tall, well build and with infectious smiling eyes. On arriving, Steve took my backpack (it is not so heavy), because it is the polite thing to do; because that is how a man should act, believes Steve. As we walk through the production hallways and pass a crowd of onlookers we sit down in the “anteroom”, behind the scenes of the television production. This Anteroom is decorated in red with the royal coaches in the middle… Ok, first question: Steve, how did this story with windsurfing begin?
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