Every year, right when Switzerland starts turning into a cold, grey postcard, our favourite Swiss lake enthusiast Balz packs up the family, ditches the neoprene, and points himself straight at Jericoacoara, Brazil, also known as Jeri. This is when the place absolutely fires. If you like wind, water, and sending it until your legs fall off, November in Jeri is basically Disneyland.

Balz doesn’t do chill holidays. He arrives with half a surf shop in his board bags, filled with windsurf gear, wing gear, foil gear, and probably a few experimental Swiss contraptions no one should legally be allowed to fly. But the wetsuit stays at home, which means he is already winning.

About Jeri, Brazil

If you wanted to design a windsport paradise on purpose, it would end up looking almost exactly like Jeri in November. The wind turns on early, builds fast, and stays locked in all day. It is the kind of wind you can trust, the type that lets you rig small, send big, and never wonder if you made a mistake leaving the bigger wing on the beach.

Inside the lagoon you get smooth water where you can blast around, throw tricks, and ride fast. Once you move offshore, the wind swell stacks into rolling bumps that are perfect for foiling and downwind play. Everything is warm, clear, fast-moving, and just messy enough to be fun. The weather stays on the sunny side of perfect, the sunscreen works overtime, and the whole atmosphere feels like it was built specifically to give wind junkies a reason to stay outside from sunrise to sunset.

It is no mystery why windsurfers, kiters, wingers, and foil lovers migrate here year after year. Jeri doesn’t do maybe. When you show up in November, the wind is always on.

A Watersports Playground

For multisport athletes like Balz, this place is paradise. His routine looks like a rotating reel of different disciplines. He starts the morning surf foiling until his legs start shaking, switches to wingfoiling around midday when the wind really kicks in, and usually finishes the afternoon blasting around on a windsurf board. When the wind takes a dip, which doesn’t happen often, he just swaps to the foil and keeps catching waves. Every day is full throttle, full of tricks, and exactly what he came for.

Family Time

Balz may be an energy machine, but he is also a dad of two, and Jeri just happens to be a paradise for kids. The water is warm and shallow in the right spots, the beach is huge and soft, and there is always something to do. Balz and Eva trade time on the water. One parent is out there throwing tricks while the other is building sandcastles, digging tunnels, or trying to stop the kids from burying each other completely. In a few years the whole family will probably be on the water together, and Jeri might not even be ready for that level of Swiss foiling chaos.

The Gear Balz Uses

With Jeri turning the wind up to full power all month long, Balz gets to use his favourite small gear. He is on the water every single day, switching between windsurfing, wingfoiling, parawinging, and surf foiling. The stronger the wind, the bigger the smile, and November delivers plenty of both. His main setup is the ENSIS TOPSPIN 3m and the ENSIS ROGER 3m parawing. The wind is strong, the waves are playful, and the foil turns the whole ocean into a playground. Each session is a mix of new lines, waves, and plenty of airtime, along with the kind of crashes that only happen when you are clearly having way too much fun.