Today the PKRA Season started. The first two days in Coche were to light for a competition. Today in El Yaque I was against Pinho in my first heat, he couldn’t barrely ride upwind, I had my problems to, but still could do a Switch Backmobe and a Switch KGB and won that heat. In the next heat I was against Youri. Read the rest of this entry »

I went to Tarifa last Thursday, to see the Top-riders newest tricks and meet friends. Len10, Soto and Jaime rocked with some huge kung fu handlepasses, really spectacular! After 1 hour on the beach, a dozen of riders and friends already had showed me their Appendicitis-scars and told me their story’s, so now I know I’m not alone, hahaha.

I staid in Tarifa till Sunday, ride with 30+ Levantewinds which made it difficult to land all my tricks. Monday I had a great day with my new 11m (best kite ever), I landed every mobe, did some new stuff and enjoyed so much! So now I’m back in Shape and my Motivation is sooo high!!!I just ordered a nice camcorder, so in future I will keep you updated with my newest tricks and trips on video!!!

Exactly 32 men registered for this contest, so we started with the Single Elminitation today. 4 heats were finished but then in my heat against Jo Ciastula the Competition was cancelled done to the constantly increasing wind which was taking me and the others away without any possibility to depower.2 hours later the organization decided to give it another try, the wind now was lighter but even gustier, and in the middle of the heat we all ended up to underpowered so the heat was cancelled again.

Day 3: Great strong Wind up to 40 knots, so we could finish the Single Elimination. I won my first Heat against Jo Ciastula with one of the most complete heats of the day including pete rose, kgb, blind judge aerial pass and back to wrapped. After that I was against my teammate Etienne Lhote, we really fought it out on the water, I did some more handlepasses but in the end the judges decided in a very very close decision that Etienne had to advance because of doing higher tricks and powerfull kiteloops. He then made it to the finals and even beat Aaron Hadlow.

While the Double-Elimination started, I had the bad Idea to study some time. Unfortunately this made me come 5 min. to late to my heat which made it impossible to beat Bj?rn Viane. No Im really really pissed, but happy to go home.

Day 2:

19.00 : The organisation decided to cancel the competition for today at 6pm, so now we have some time to rest, learn, check emails and do what ever we want which is cool.

14.30 : We are still waiting for the wind, we have a possible start every half an hour so theres nothing more to do then to wait, its really getting boring here.Maybe the wind will pick up later, but I guess that there want be any wind until tomorrow. Check caribbeanwinds.com for liveresults.