A life against the wind
Athlète internationale de haut niveau, membre de l'équipe canadienne de voile, Dominique Vallée fait de la planche à voile dès l'âge de six ans. Elle détient un des rares diplômes de voile noire et d'entraîneur de niveau III, distinction qui lui confère une notoriété au sein du monde de la voile. Elle est d'ailleurs di
In this book, Une vie à contre vent, Dominique Vallée shares with us her travels, encounters, battles, but above all her desire to live in complete freedom. At the age of 16, her choice of studies forced her to leave the family cocoon and she slowly realized that the future she was destined for might not be the one that suited her. Gradually, she embarked on an intense sporting and personal adventure far from the traditional lifestyle. The author, who is studying kinesiology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, tells us, from her childhood to today, about the unusual life path of an international windsurfing career with its fantastic moments and its sometimes painful lows.
