Its Saturday the 10th of July and I’m at the “Tatort Hawaii” to pull off the first Kiteskate contest in the history of kitesurfing together with Torben and Jens. Its a sunny day at the beautiful kitespot Stein. To use the butterbox and kicker also without wind the locals supported us with a jetski and a boot . As we got started the guys were pushing it really hard from the beginning and everyone gave it a go on hitting the obstacles. Amir was an outstanding rider and could get every vote from each rider. BIG PROPS to all riders and Schwerelosigkite, who made it possible. www.kiteskate.eu
Bring Tatort Hawaii to your home and get your new wallpaper. This spot is going to be the stage for the first Kiteskate Masters 2010. More infos you find on www.kiteskate.eu
I still have problems with my knee. the doctor says two more weeks on crutches – that sucks! the femoral is already slim like a drumstick. anyway I’m working on different projects – excited about it. Well, these year I won’t compete at many contests, but have a lot of plans for trips to northern europe. Before that will be in Kiel a good event from the 10. to 11. of july. Hope to see you there. www.kiteskate.eu
You won’t believe it, if you haven’t been there. When I arrived I had no expectations about the coming event. I had to wait at the airport for 4 more hours before my boardbag also landed in Copenhagen. At the first sight of the spot – whatever, I can’t tell you how stoked I was. MJ made a dream come true and brought two massive nylon obstacles from unit park tech to the dirty brown lagoon. Despite the water colour it was the perfect flatwater spot. With the X Board Slide’n’Ride Peter Sands and Thomas Alsbirk, one of the international LF riders, established the first real wakestyle event in Europe. Props to you guys!
18 invited riders from all over Europe made the event a special one. Henning Sandström from Sweden threw huge grabs in the air, andto be out on the water with Oli Panny from Austria again was just fun. For me it ended on crutches, because I fucked my knee after a glorious party at the cable park on Sunday. But anyway, until the next Slide’n’ride I will be recovered- yeah. See you guys in 2011 in copenhagen for the next Slide’n’Ride. It was a pleasure meeting all of you and riding together.
ps: thanks Balázs for storing my stuff and Sally storing us.
The Kitespain reports from an epic session on the waku. We were damned lucky to witness one of these very random perfect days: 20 knots, blue sky and fresh powder. We took photos with three external flashlights. My feet felt like after a marathon. But it made so much fun to do 540s, rodeo flips, inverted rolls… over the kicker, that we continued the session the half night!
German Snowkite Champion 2010, yeah it sounds so good (smile). It has been my first snowkite contest, which I’ve been waiting for years. I came third place in the international judging after Remi and Heinar and won the German Championship. It was a hell of fun shredding the obstacles and doing handlepasses on snow. At Saturday evening the wind forecast looked pretty bad, so everybody celebrated massive on the fabulous Schwerelosigkite party. All in all it had been an awesome weekend!
It has been good conditions for the first day of the official Snowkite World Cup and German Championship. Not really a lot of wind but still enough to get the freestyle heats done. Yesterday they have canceled the freestyle discipline in my heat, so I had to compete first today. I continued to the semifinals successfully. There I met on Remi Meum the snowkite champion of 2009. This guy is killing it. It was a pleasure to ride with him. He did a sick KGB grabed and a lot more stylish tricks. In this first snowkite contest for me I rode my best heat against Remi, doing a fs 360 indy, bs 360, s-bend to blind, kiteloop to wrapped, fs boardslide 360, slim chance and frontmobe. I lost but still have been stoked of the session. In the loosers final I met on Oli Panny a team budy from Liquid Force. A really nice guy, who rides with a lot of power and super stylish. We both rode the envy and had a lot of fun shreding the obstacles and kickers. At the end I got third. Hopefully the wind will pick up tomorrow to have another sick day on the snow.
…just got back home and it is a huge difference between 30°, turquoise water, bright sunshine and minus 10° with snowfall.
Anyway, last Friday a nice article about the snowkite session on the Wasserkuppe was published in a daily paper. Just perfect, to get me real excited about the next snowkite session…
The first days on the new 010 material have been awsome. Riding in bright turquoise water and sunshine, wearing boardshorts only - i like! Around afternoon the wind dropped – we all didn’t like- so we switched from waves to dunes and had a fun session on sand.
Early in the morning we arrived on the island. So we still had a lot of time to check out the spots. The next days it will be windy and the waves as high as today – i like! Yesterday we had the first session on the water with 30° degrees, boardshorts and easy 15 knots at the north shore. Here are some pics from the north shore…
Early in the morning we arrived on the island. So we still had a lot of time to check out the spots. The next days it will be windy and the waves as high as today – i like! Yesterday we had the first session on the water with 30° degrees, boardshorts and easy 15 knots at the north shore. Here are some pics from the north shore…
