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Small North Kiteboarding email a few days ago: Can you go to south africa to turn your part for the movie North "Behind the scene"? Me: Yes well I do not know, maybe, or perhaps not .. , no to tell the truth I did not hesitate a second, I was already sitting next to my window in Air France plane. (even if the flight leader wanted me to pay too much for my bag and I was lucky and blablabla, and ... not short of excitement, inspiration and expiration and i went thru). Read more ...

Oh man, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow folks, I find it hard to put into words what’s in my heart, adrenalin stores and memory…   The reason for my incredible stokedness was the boattrip last weekend to the Abrolhos Islands that I’ve been privileged to be part of and which turned out to become one of the most epic wave-adventures in my personal list of ‘once-in-a-lifetime wave trips’. Read more ...

Check out the new Vegas advertisement… Super happy with the 2010 model! Just ask your local dealer and check it yourself! Read more ...

German Snowkite Champion 2010, yeah it sounds so good (smile). It has been my first snowkite contest, which I’ve been waiting for years. I came third place in the international judging after Remi and Heinar and won the German Championship. It was a hell of fun shredding the obstacles and doing handlepasses on snow. At Saturday evening the wind forecast looked pretty bad, so everybody celebrated massive on the fabulous Schwerelosigkite party. All in all it had been an awesome weekend! Read more ...

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Also after a long time at home not doing to much the kiting felt very very unstable. But i knew i just need a week or so in the water and ill be back to where I left off last. So first day it’s easy to get angry when you don’t nail all your tricks :)

And to warm up before the session helps allot from hurting yourself like i was so smart went out and didn’t warm up at all and of course i stretched my arm a bit. You see if you warm up properly this would not happen so easy.

After  few days the kiting where getting better but now i had pain almost everywhere my whole body was sore more less hehe, So a few days of rest would be nice. But its hard to rest when the wind is out there. Anyways i had one day of rest and then back in the water.

Also we had some time to take some photos of the session at woddies so i will post them tonight after another kite session.

We also made a road trip and I will write all about it within next days.

The last week the wind got a bit tricky here in Capetown. The typical southeaster was not coming through and so we had to drive a lot arround here. Still I had some awesome sessions. On lake Brandvlei we made some sick pictures with perfect light. The next day we drove to Witsand which is a river that disembogues into the sea. The water is super flat there and its just perfect for training. Ok maybe a bit sharky but you can’t have everything. Three days ago we have been lucky and catched one of the rare days in the Milnerton lagune. The wind was unbelievable constant and flat water all over the place. Today its raining and kind of freecing but lets see what happens…

Aloha,

Mystic recently launced there new website for 2010 , chek it out.

Al the new gear is on there, the whole new Mystic team and the latest news around Mystic boarding.

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I’m so happy to announce my new sponsor. I’ll be riding airush kites and boards from now.

I’ve been riding the gear for the last few days, specially at CORE Slider Jam and it couldn’t work better for me. The kites are just perfect for freestyle and the boards perform really good for boots and straps. Also I’m giving ideas for next year’s gear. We have so many improvements for next year and I believe we’ll have the best freestyle kite out there! Read more ...

Eventually I am back to Perth. I arrived last night. Actually I booked a flight one day earlier. So I popped up at the airport but the flight was totally overbooked. The airline looked for volunteers who would take the flight a day after. We got a nice accommodation and food vouchers. So that was really easy and a nice day. Unfortunately there was no Fry and Bender on the plane but still a good flight. I slept just two hours now. It’s early in the morning and quite stormy already. So I am super keen on hitting to the water and see all the other good riders who are here at the moment for the Core Slider Jam. I’d better stop now and get a cell phone card and get in contact with my buddy Sci. So I’ll have a lot to talk about and a lot of video stuff to show you the next days. Read more ...

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This shot was taken by my dear friend Jason Pini, the President of the Papua New Guinea Kitesurfing Association during my most recent trip to the ‘Land of the Unexpected, PNG’ -      PNG:  acronym for Papua New Guinea.

I spent 3 weeks in this absolutely unique and amazing country. With the help of Jason and his lovely family I experienced a ‘once-in-a-lifetime-adventure’ that will stay in my heart & mind forever! Read more ...

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Here’s a few clips from some guys testing, setting up and hitting the rails. Check back soon for some more action once I get on the water and have a good session?

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