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Eventually the new homepage of Kitelife has gone online now and presents itself in a new design. A friend of mine, Martin and I designed and progammed the new page. We hope that you will like the new home of Kitelife. If you are looking for a new online presents and have not found something good, just contact us and we’ll find something nice for you. Besides designing homepages the winter has been pretty nice but with no wind at all. Thus I have to go surfing more often. I found a new spot lately which is just around the corner from where I live. It is super nice there and not that aggressive such as Trigg Point. Yesterday there was another super great John Butler concert. It is always something special when an artist plays in his or her hometown. It was just incredibly awesome. So far. I am going to wax my board again and go for another surf. Read more ...

As promised the next trick would be a frontroll to blind. Have fun trying the trick on the water. What’s going on in Perth. Today was just an epic day. What is supposed to be winter is actually a really super warm nice day with lots of waves. I so enjoyed going to the beach today and go for a surf. I could watch these guys for hours. Some of them even got some barrels. Tomorrow there’s gonna be light north easterly wind. So we’ll be trying our best at Point Walter in the morning. Read more ...

For your FREE WALLPAPER CALENDAR for the month of AUGUST,  I’m super stoked to present you one of my ‘All Time Favourite Photos’, taken by Jamie Scott, who ranks amongst the TOP-surf photographers in Australia.

What a pleasure and honour shooting with Jamie.  That day, some decent swell had hit the coast of W.A. and Jamie came out to the break on his jetski. Read more ...

We had a super nice journey this time. The flight over to Australia went super quickly. The food on the plane was awful though. We arrived in the middle of the night and had to wait for ages to get my luggage. In the end I slept like three hours. Today was a bit of wind so I took advantage of it and drove down to Woodies. Paul Smyth was there as well. He took a couple of pictures there. So I hope to get heaps of more pictures done soon. It’s looking windy for tomorrow. So maybe we’ll get some done tomorrow. Other than that the water is not that cold. I was afraid of that. But it is alright.. Hope to upload some more pics tomorrow. So have a look then again. Read more ...

Tomorrow night I’ll be flying back to Australia. My girlfriend has to go back to uni. So we need to head back there. A bit weird to go from summer with long hot days to a place where it is still warm but the days are shorter. On the other hand, winter means swell in Australia. And I am more than keen on getting into waves again. Surfing is just so much fun and so challanging as well. I am taking my kitestuff with me too. There is still a good chance going kiting in winter though. Gotta keep packing. See ya in Perth. Read more ...

Just a quick reminder girlz & boyz:  have you already downloaded your FREE WALLPAPER for this month?!

If you haven’t done so, it’s high time !!  It’s a sick shot taken by Russell Ord, one of THE GREATEST surf-photographers of all times!

Simply click here to go back to the download page, scroll down, select the right screen resolution for YOUR device and download, eazy   There’s even one for your Iphone or Blackberry! Read more ...

It’s my pleasure to present to you your FREE Wallpaper Calendar for the month of July guys !!!

Downloading is super easy, just scroll down, select the right screen-resolution 4 ur gadget and off you go There’s even a wallpaper for blackberry and your Iphone ! Read more ...

Joy, I’m stoked    The cover of the May issue of Europe’s No.1 Kitesurf Magazine -  Kiteboarding Mag -  goes to…  KITEGABI !!

The May issue is not just ‘any’ issue, it’s the 10 year anniversary edition and thus bigger & better than any issue ever before . Read more ...

Here is the little clip of Safety Bay. That was the last day with kiting in Australia. So not very elaborated. Nevertheless a short impression of 10min kiting. Here in Germany it is so freezing. So we used the time to clean the boardway and work and built a bit to make it an even more beautiful place. The new website is online now as well. Really nice. Check it out. on http://boardway.org Read more ...

So after a lot of trouble with editing and crashing PCs, it is done eventually. The little film DRIVE shows a couple of spots around Perth. There’s also a bit of surfing in it. Thanks to my girlfriend who filmed most of it. Without her I wldnt be here and wldnt have a video. Enjoy it. Read more ...

Here’s a little teaser for the upcoming clip “Drive”. It was shot all around Perth. “Drive” will take you to some spots and you will see some kiteboarding action and surfing action as well. There are just a few shots from Pelican Point in the teaser. There’s so much more to come so stay tuned! Read more ...

Denis from boost-kiteboarding, an online shop from Hamburg, did a little interview with me about Australia. Like what spots are the best here, why have I been coming back to this place so often, how have I become an editor for Kitelife and what do I think about the new RPM and stuff. It was really fun doing the interview and thanks Denis again for that nice chat. You will find it on www.boost-kiteboarding.de or by clicking here. It is in German though so. I am sorry if you don’t understand it. Maybe I will translate it in a couple of days. Enjoy the pictures though. Read more ...

Today, precisely one year ago, I was as close to ‘not seeing next day’s daylight…’  as I’ve never been in my life before. Yep, I experienced THE most serious wipe-out of my career in a rather serious swell that rolled in at Australias amazing west coast on 12th of March 2009.

You can read up on that day in my blog from a year ago, if you want. Basically what happened, is simply what can happen anytime, any day, in any condition…:  All of a sudden it all went horribly wrong and although I’ve been having the greates ball out there for almost 2 hours, suddenly sh$t happened… a monster munched me, I got tangled in my lines and got the second wave of a monster-set on my head, whilst still having a line wrapped around my arm… Read more ...

I was lucky the other day to get some new pictures again. The photographer is Paul Smyth. Thanks for taking the pictures. This time we went to Point Walter as the wind started coming from the east now. It seems that the windy season is over now. It is cloudy more often now and the wind keeps coming from the east. Hopefully the swell picks up a bit. Another Kitelife issue will be published during the next days with some nice stuff in it like travel story to Kenya and Ireland plus an interview with Xavier Rudd. Besides that boardway, the kiteschool I work during summer has made a nice teaser worth watching. There is also a bit of footage of me in it. So check it out. Read more ...

There is this double page in a kiteboarding magazine of me. Funny enough though because they advertise for some spots around the world. This picture was taken at my homespot in Germany. Apparantely my homespot is the best in the world. Glad that this is offical now :) Other than that, it’s really nice here in WA still. Yesterday we went to Xavier Rudd. Brilliant as usual and his new band rocks as well. Tomorrow is The Cat Empire on. Obviously I am living a great life at the moment. The swell also has gotten bigger. So surfing is a lot of fun. It is still windy everyday as well and my body is begging me for a break. But no chance. You have to take what you are given and that is perfect conditions at the moment. That’s it so far again. Read more ...

For the wallpaper of the month of March, I’ve chosen a waveshot that was taken by Russell Ord on some heavy swell day on the coast of Western Australia.  Yeah, I still remember this crazy session, like yesterday…

In the morning on waking up on the farm that I stay at here in W.A. I could already feel it, ‘Swell had hit’, I was absolutely positive.   I jumped in my car, the sun had only just risen, beautiful light everywhere through the giant gum trees, and speeded to the Ocean…    Yeah JOY, the surf’ was up, and even bigger than forecasted! Read more ...

A little update from Perth. It’s been super hot the last days. I reckon it’s been about 40°C everyday. That means that seabreeze kicks in everyday as well. So I could go kiting at Pelican Point the last days which is a super nice spot in the middle of the city. When you ride a bit further out on the river you can have a perfect view on the Perthian skyline. Just amazing. We also could use the last days to shoot a bit for the Kitelife Magazine. Just super sweet colours here. Plus the fact that there aren’t many people kiting on the river makes it just perfect. Training, if you wanna call it like this, has been going on really well. I could land some new tricks like a Late Mobe and S-Bend 3. The swell has also picked up a lot. Today was about shoulder to head high. For me as a surf-idiot really scary. But good to see the guys ripping it really hard. Next week there’s gonna be Xavier Rudd, The Cat Empire and The Beautiful Girls in town. I am really looking forward to seeing these bands again. So far.. Now I have to get back to my English essays I have to write for uni. 2500 is way to much when there’s 40°C outside. Read more ...

It’s about time, that I tell u a bit what’s been happening here in Down Under. The last weeks have been a blast. The weather has been fantastic and there has been wind almost every day. Last weekend we went on a road trip down south to my favourite surf spot Denmark. Although travelling for more than six hours it is really worth the effort. The little country town with the award winning pie shop has to be loved. Whoever has been reading my blog over the years has read about that town before. Besides travelling I’ve been going down to Woodies a lot. Alex Pastor, Cesar Portas and Bruna Kajiya are also in Perth at the moment so it is a lot of fun riding with them. Little by little I am getting back to my last year’s shape. I could really feel that i had not been kiting for five month. So there is still a lot to catch up with. That is the state of affairs so far. I am going for a surf now at Trigg’s Point. 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 ...

Heheeeeeeeey, excellent, I’ve just gotten back to Western Australia and immediately there’s some sick action happening here: the annual Slider Jam, a freeride-event put together by Core Online magazine at Woodmans Point in Perth.

9 days and a sick fun park made up of rails, sliders, and kickers, each one sponsored by a kite-brand attrackts quite a crowd and some really ‘big names’ in the kiteboarding professional scene made their way to ‘Woodies’ (as Woodmans Point is referred to by the locals) amongst them my North International team mates Tom Court (UK), Cesar Portas (ESP), also 5x Kiteboarding Worldchamp Aaron Hadlow, even Andre Phillip, Susie Mai, Bruna Kajija and many more… Read more ...