Piccolo Clemente: Two-Time World Longboard Surf Champion

Piccolo Clemente has the joy of being Peruvian, and the pride of having been born in Huanchaco, Trujillo. A city that will always have the presence of the Pacific Ocean in front of it, a place where Piccolo has excelled in the sport that he is most passionate about, achieving enviable and not easy results, such as being a TWO-TIME WORLD CHAMPION.

Let's meet Piccolo Clemente.

His name is Benoit Clemente Rotfuss. When he was 8 years old, he began his journey with a board, starting with a Morey (type of board) that was given to him by a neighbor in Huanchaco. It took 3 years for Piccolo Clemente to win the first title of his life, in a local Longboard championship, and from that moment on, he didn't stop riding waves and achieving national, South American, and eventually world achievements. His nickname "Piccolo" comes from the name of a restaurant managed by his father, who was also called by the same nickname, coincidentally the name of the restaurant was "El Piccolo". It is worth mentioning that Piccolo is the manager of his surfboard company, reaching markets like Venezuela and Ecuador, boards with which he competed in the last championship held in China.

Titles he has achieved

Piccolo has tested himself in different tournaments, achieving glory in many of them, from national to world championships. In 2008, he won the National Longboard Surf Championship, then the Huanchaco Longboard Pro Peru 2010, 2011, where he was also the champion. He also participated in the South American championship held in Chile where he finished third. From there, he moved on to compete in the big leagues, such as the ASP Longboard World Championship in 2013, where he became the world champion of the sport he is so passionate about.

Piccolo Clemente, Two-Time World Champion

Since that year 2014 in which he was quickly eliminated, Piccolo prepared himself with great dedication, aiming to have a rematch and win. And he did. The time came to be once again in a final, facing the American Taylor Jensen, who scored 17.70 points, while Piccolo Clemente obtained 18.30, thus giving him a new world title, the second for him. This demonstrates, as he himself says, that it was all thanks to his hard training, the quality of waves he had that day, and we also say that it was thanks to his courage, that feeling of wanting a rematch and winning it, of seeking success after a "failure", that perseverance that characterizes few Peruvians. Piccolo Clemente adds one more title, he is now the current Two-Time World Champion of Longboard Surf, and it would not surprise us if he is already preparing to win the title again this year. [caption id="attachment_2850" align="aligncenter" width="938"] Piccolo Clemente[/caption>

THANK YOU PICCOLO CLEMENTE