Yesterday MJ and I got up at 6.30 to go to the cable with Brian Wheeler from Kiteboarding Magazine. Moe was also supposed to come, but as he didn’t turn up, I was all alone on the water for an hour. They opened the cable only for us, so it was dead flat water, the light was still beautiful and when I felt to the water, I just had to wait and catch the next rope passing by. Some good shots are going into the next Kiteboarding issue. After the session we went straight to the airport and I just arrived in Hamburg a couple of minutes ago. Thanks again to Brian for the cable session, who by the way totally ripped once in the water, doing a pete rose of the kicker and a sick hasselhoff (and that cable is really low)

A couple of days ago MJ from Liquid Force asked me to come to Orlando for the Surf Expo, a huge event where all the surf, wake and skate brands present their new stuff, so I took a train from Hamburg to Flensburg on Wednesday and then went to Copenhagen with MJ (on the way we had a flat tire in the middle of the night), where we slept one night and then went on to Orlando with a stop in New York.

The expo started today, it’s really big and there are lots of hot chicks running around and presenting the newest bikini designs, the Liquid Force booth has some huge ads with me on them, also I have some nice coverage in the new catalog and in the SBC and Kiteboarding.

Once we got bored at the expo, Troels and Mads from Denmark and I drove down to the cable park where I had my sickest slider session ever, the park is full with the best obstacles. As it was my first time hitting obstacles at the cable I started tranquilo, but the progression is really fast and soon I was able to land some big toeside 3’s of the kicker and hit the sliders in all kind of body postures and with passes. Next time I’m back home in Marbella I will have to convince the park owner there to build some obstacles…

The expo continues tomorrow and I will also try to get some pics from me at the cable done.

The wind machine was on. And conditions got better and better. I had some amazing time at Kitebeach, riding together with the LF Troops.

Days were mental, we’ve been working 24/7 for the new catalog through all the week, set up some nice lifestyle action with suits and shinn, we really put all our energy into that week, but I’m sure it was worth it. The riding was dope. At kitebeach the conditions were begging for powered stuff and punished technical tricks. What we didn’t get though, were those typical Hawaiian kickers.

On our last day we went to Lanai, which gave the trip the last touch. We kited in front of a huge ship wreck, a spot that I only knew through a Wipika video featuring Dave Tyburski in 2002 or so (that video was dope!).

Now I’m back home (Marbella) & tomorrow I will move my Benz to Tarifa, PKRA time… Once that thing is over, I have some sick plans for this month, among them the Legit Jam in Mid July organised by German Bindings & Slider Pioneer Kim Albrecht. We will have some sliders, we will be 6 riders or so & the format is going to be similar to Kite Punks and SSS.