Episode six of the kite show brings us 40 minutes of kite action! We´ll see and interview with Aaron Hadlow who’s back after his injury that put him out of order for nine months. We’ll also meet the Best designers Peter Stiewe and Jordi Modolell to find out more about their awesome jobs. Further Andre Phillip explains why the movie Island Time became such a success featuring Sam Light where he starts his back mobe instructional series beginning with the back roll and back-to-toe. Ruben Lenten talks about the highlights of the Len10 Mega Loop Challenge in Cape Town and Aaron Hadlow interviews the winner Lewis Crathern.
BEST TS TEST
On May - 5 - 2012
Best kiteboarding rider Jaime Piñol testing to some of the latest BEST models to see how they perform when doing kiteloops.
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Kitesurfing in Sri Lanka
On May - 3 - 2012
The people in Sri Lanka seems to have amazingly good conditions for kitesurfing! Kitesurfinglanka.com is a kiteschool on the north west coast of Sri Lanka, on the peninsula of Puttalam. Here you´ll find more than a dozen spots with flat water and not over crowded with surfers, a paradise both for beginners and more advanced riders. The wind blows at an average of 18-20 knots – 24/7 during May to October. Sounds pretty good to me, huh?
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Kai Lenny – Episode 3
On May - 3 - 2012
Kai Lenny is a guy that probably spend more time in the water than on land… he masters kitesurfing, SUP, wavesurfing and windsurfing. Red Bull is currently running a series with Kai Lenny “Positively Kai”. Stay tuned for coming episodes :)
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Perfect kite session
On May - 2 - 2012
I just came across this nice little kite video from an unknown kitesurfer. It looks like this guy has found a great spot and it really looks like he was having an epic kite session! The spot seems to be called La Palme :)
Top Hat Classic
On May - 1 - 2012
The lack of cool kitesurfing videos this week force me to add something old… but old videos don’t necessary have to be bad :) This old classic clip featuring “Top Hat” and a guy called Erik Eck is so damn funny that I just had to post it here on kite2012. Prepare for a good laugh if you havn’t already seen this awesome clip :)
Ocean Rodeo & Reef Girls
On April - 27 - 2012
This is not the newest kitesufing video, but still worth posting here for reasons that should be quite obvious… What we see in this video is the Ocean Rodeo team featuring Jeremie Tronet, Linn Svendsen, Shannon Best, Kris Kinn, Melissa Gill, Jon Mc Cabe and Juan Carlos Morales who seems to have find an awesome spot at the islands of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Hatteras 2012 Daniel Koenig and Stefan Koenig
On April - 26 - 2012
Two for me unknown brothers, Daniel and Stefan Koenig, have shot this video in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It’s nice to for once see some innovative kitesurfing, not just the usual unhooked 1080’s ala Aaron Hadlow style :)
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Kiteboarding in the Olympics 2016
On April - 23 - 2012
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has decided to add ten kiteboarding events for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition. The confirmation was held in 2011 at the ISAF Mid-Year Meeting in St Petersburg, Russia.
Göran Petersson, the ISAF President, advocated for kiteboarding for more than three hours before the ten events were decided. More than 50 Submissions were received for consideration and we can be pleased to anounce that 10 of them were selected. All events are within racing, so we can forget freestyle and old school this time.
The ten events selected by the ISAF Council for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition are:
Men’s Board and/or Kiteboard – evaluation
Women’s Board and/or Kiteboard – evaluation
Men’s One Person Dinghy – Laser
Women’s One Person Dinghy – Laser Radial
Men’s 2nd One Person Dinghy – Finn
Men’s Skiff – 49er
Women’s Skiff – Evaluation
Men’s Two Person Dinghy – 470
Women’s Two Person Dinghy – 470
Mixed Two Person Multihull – Evaluation
Some people are already training for the Olympics 2016, such as Annabel van Westerop as seen here in this video:
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Kai Lenny – The King of Watersports!
On April - 19 - 2012
Red Bull has a great job with their new billboard Kai Lenny! 19 years old Kai Lenny is a professional surfer and can ride pretty much everything that has a board. Give this guy a plank of wood and he´ll probably not hesitate taking it out for a ride in the Jaws at Maui!
The first video here is epic! Kai goes windsurfing, tow-in surfing, and kite surfing, all in one day – he is the king of watersports!
Kitesurfing in Puerto Rico
On March - 26 - 2012
A nice kitesurfing video from Puerto Rico. The video was shot under an obviously epic session, perfect wind, flat water, nice and sunny, and with a some smoking hot audience on the beach! No wonder the guys did their best to impress on these girls ;)
Kitesurfing in Ireland
On March - 25 - 2012
I don´t post shit videos on this site, that´s why you don’t see new clips on this site every damn day. The releases of good kitesurfing videos this week have been quite poor, but luckily I came across a video that is worthy to be published on kite2012! Good music and some nice slowmotion moves in this awesome video from the West Ireland! And take a look at the water in this video, it´s like a mirror! I wish my home spot was just like that! :)
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Karolina Winkowska in South Africa 2012
On March - 22 - 2012
Karolina Winkowska injured her ankle in Brazil and was forced to spend a whole long winter to rehabilitation. Good news is that she has come back, stronger and better than ever! Injures are common among professional kite riders, just look at Youri Zoon, Ruben Lenten and now Aaron Hadlow. The constant risk of hurting yourself when you’re kitekurfing can hold you back in your progression, but remeber this! Bones Heal, Chicks Dig Scars, Pain is Temporary, Glory is Forever!
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In search for the perfect session!
On March - 20 - 2012
sometimes you have kite sessions that just suck. Shitty wind, cold water and you seem to have lost everything that can be called flow. On the other hand, you sometimes have some sessions that are amazing! sometimes you might feel like you´re losing your passion for kitesurfing, then one day you have that perfect session when you once more realize that kitesurfing is best thing in life! The search for the perfect session never ends!
