Mom and Dad named me: Silvester Ruckdaeschel

Where and when: Munich | Germany | 24.01.1988

Why and how: They were in a typical Bavarian restaurant and a Bavarian friend suggested this extremely Bavarian Name…

Meet me here: Marbella, Munich, rest of the world

Height: 184cm / 6´0 ft

fluid in: english, german, spanish and when concentrated, french

Places yet to discover: Australia, South Africa, California,…

Latest Book: The Choice Of Hercules

Movies: Sleuth, Bonnie and Clyde, Blow, Jackie Brown, Eastern Promises, Blowup

Bands: Jethro Tull, Velvet Underground, Soundgarden, Neil Young, Ian Hunter

Results: German Juniorchampion 04,German Champion 05, 9th PKRA Tarifa 07, 9th PKRA Germany 07, Spanish Vize Champion 07, 7th PKRA France 08, 9th PKRA Fuerteventura 08, Liquid Force Team Rider of the Year 08

gear: Hifi Comp, Recoil 136, Synergy Bindings

My twin-sister Sharon and I were born on the 24th of January 1988 in Munich. My father Herbert Ruckdaeschel would soon put Sharon and me on his skateboard as often as possible, “generating a feeling for balance” as he liked to recall it.

When my mom, my sister and I moved to Marbella (Spain) at the change of the millennium I spend most of my free time on the skateboard. But 2 years later, in 2002, I discovered a new sport, kiteboarding. Just a few tries on a kiteboard and I find it as exciting as playing high-stakes games in casino. It soon became my passion and I started to dedicate more time into developing my own style on the water than into studying for school, until finally saying Goodbye to “traditional” school after the German 10th grade. I then I traveled the world with my distance-schoolbooks in the the backpack for 4 epic years.

In 2010 I moved to Cape Town where I study Brand Building and Marketing at the AAA school of Advertising and where I continue kiteboarding regularly.