The other day I went to the airport and wanted to check in for my flight to Venezuela, funny thing was, I booked my flight for exactly one month later, so would have had to cancel this one and get a new one, but decided not to do so because I hurt my back a couple of weeks before, and only kited 3 days during 3 weeks, 2 days at the PKRA in France & 1 day sliders in La Manga and even resting so much I hadn’t recovered from the injury, so next day I went to see the doctor, had to go through an X-Ray where no damage was visible, the doctor diagnosed “inflamacion de ligamentos” (spanish…) but he seemed to have no idea at all, so what I’ll do is rest a bit more and if it doesn’t get better, check with another doctor.
Check out the video below, made by Thomas Alsbirk, LF teamrider and one of our kitedesigners. Its some riding from Leucate, my heat against Portas, some pure wakestyle from Peter Sands and more riding from more LF riders.

The whole trip from Malaga to Leucate and back was absolutely crazy, first we build a slider in La Manga on one day and slide it the next day, then we had really good skateboarding sessions in Barcelona but meanwhile, some dickheads broke into our car and stole Alvaros clothing bag, Alex his Macbook and my passport and Macbook Pro, then we spend a thousand hours at the police, Alvaro and Alex kited in front of Barcelonas skyline, meanwhile I was organizing a new passport, then we had to repair the broken window from the robbery, so in the end we almost came to late for the competition in France. In France, we hit a nail with a wheel and once we changed it, a Lady suddenly drove backwards at a cross section and crashed into my sisters van that we were traveling in. And those were only some of the highlights! In the end we’re all happy to have done the trip but also happy that its over! Ill be home for some days now and the mess continues on the 25th with a flight to Venezuela, where I’ll participate at the next PKRA Event. Those pics are screenshots from the movie that Alvaro, Alex and I are making.

After numerous problems during our roadtrip like a broken battery and a robbery, Alvaro, Alex and I arrived at the competition area way to late and almost too late to register. The french Tramontana blew strong and gusty from day 1 on so first I had to go through the trials, where I only didn’t miss my heat thanks to Pile (the machine) Brueckmann, who saved me by pumping up my kite. 4 of 5 people went through each heat, and 1 guy didn’t even show up in my heat, so I went through to the Single Eliminations, where I had to go against Cesar Portas in the first heat. I rode my Unions, did really well for the conditions but lost against the quantity (2 more tricks) of Cesar. Next day wasn’t windy enough for competition, so there was enough time to recover from Saturdays night. The wind came back stronger and gustier on Monday for the double elimination. I won my first heat against Ali Barrett from UK on bindings but with a really close decision. The conditions got worse and worse so after this heat I went for my straps board(hadn’t ridden on straps for the last 3 months) and shorter lines which turned out to be a good decision, because like this I won another 3 heats, against Paris, Phillip Brueckmann and Mikael Bloomvall and then lost against Seb Garat way overpowered on my 7m. I ended up 7th like Alvaro, Alex got 6th. So it was a good start into the new year of competitions. Thanks to Thomas Hasle for taking some pics of me.