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: Cape Town, 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,…

Favorite Authors: Alain de Botton, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Amir Kassaei, Grisham, Gregory Davids Roberts…

Favorite 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

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

But it was my mother’s decision of moving to Marbella (Spain) at the change of the millennium that introduced me to the sport of kiteboarding. Living only an hour away from Europe’s “wind capital” Tarifa and being surrounded by kiteboarding legends such as Alvaro Onieva and Jaime Herraiz, it didn’t take me long to grow an incredible passion towards the sport and finally turn it into a career that would bring me to the most exotic beaches of the world.