Some kitesurfing dudes named Sam Medysky, Craig Cunningham, Rich Sabo, Brian Smith, Elliot Drury, David Drinkwater and Brandon Schied went to Taiba in Brazil. Loads of tricks and crashes were recorded during there trip, this is the result!
Archive for February, 2012
Lewis Crathern – The Winner of Len10 Megaloop Challenge
On February - 26 - 2012
We´ve seen him jump over Brighton Pier and now we´ve seen him win the Len10 Megaloop Challenge! Out of 24 riders Lewis Crathern won the Len10 Megaloop Challenge. Among his competitors were Sam Light, Rick Jensen, Gianni Aragno. So of all these maniacs it was Lewis Crathern that won the megaloop challenge, congrats!
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Super Tasty Chili Chicken in Boracay
On February - 26 - 2012
Except kitesurfing, sunbathing, snorkling there are many other things to do on Boracay. One thing I appreciate is eating! I have a weakness for spicy asian food =P Now and then when I come across a dish that I really like, then I try to steal the recipe so that I can cook it for my friends back home. Today was the third time in a row that I ordered the same dish from a restaurant at Bulabong beach, something I normally don’t do unless the dish is extraordinary! The recipe of the dish that I´m now going to share with you is easy to make and you´ll love it! I call this dish Chili chicken with garlic and vetegables.
What you need for 2 persons is the following:
- About 300 grams of sliced chicken
- 1 aubergine
- 1 red paprika
- ½ yellow onion
- 1 green chili (a large one). Or take a red one if you want, or why not one of each :)
- ginger
- garlic
- oil
- butter
- oyster sauce
- Knorr liquid seasoning
- Sugar
- Lime
- Lemon grass
- Chili oil (you can make your own by simply grinding small bird chilies and garlic. Boil it with some oil, preferable one without so much taste)
Now just follow these simple steps.
1. Cut the aubergine, paprika, onion, ginger and chili in pieces. Put it together with the chicken in a pan. Garlic, what about the garlic? Actually when I took these photos the cook didn’t add garlic, but I’m pretty sure that should be some garlic in this dish. Perhaps did he simply not have garlic in the kitchen for the moment, or did he forget? Anyway, add some garlic, it can´t be wrong with garlic, can it!? :)
2. Add the oil, butter, oyster sauce and liquid seasoning. How much? I´d say about 1 table spoon of each, just put in some and it will probably be fine. You can always fine tune the amount next time you cook this dish (will be plenty of times if you just give it a chance)
3. Put the pan on a gas stove, medium heat. You have no gas stove? Well, put in on a hotplate instead, I´m pretty sure it will work just as fine! Let it all simmer for about 5 minutes. Add some more butter and oil if the mix starts sticking to the pan.
Starts to look like something huh? Hang on, you´re almost there!
4. Give the lemongrass some bashes, cut it in pieces, put it in the pan. Now add some sugar (approximately a table spoon).
5. Next add some lime juice and the chili oil. Squeeze the lime over a strainer and avoid the seeds. Add some more chili oil if you want it extra spicy =P
7. That´s it! I added some extra chili oil on my plate :)
Serve with rice and why not pop an cold beer, it will be the icing on the cake! By the way, I think that some roasted cashew nuts scattered over the whole thing would make this dish even better!
Bon appetit!
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Remi Meum Snowkiting
On February - 24 - 2012
It´s still winter and Remi Meum is a guy that understands that winter means snowkiting! Why freeze you ass of in the water when you can have some awesome snowkiting session while waiting for the warmth to come?
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The Revolution
On February - 23 - 2012
Thomas Paris, Forest Bakker, Louis Hutter, Adrien Dennis, Charles Tiger, Thibaut Razeyre and many other professional riders were shooting tons of kitesurfing action from different spots around the world.
Light Bros has decided to put everything together into a long action packed movie called The Revolution. This movie will be totally free and it will soon be available on the internet, so stay tuned!
Here is a little trailer of what´s coming!
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Asia Litwin
On February - 21 - 2012
Who the hell is Asia Litwin? Probaly a quite unknown name to most people. kite 2012 can tell you that she is a professional rider from Poland. With only 4 years of kitesurfing she already has her bag full of tricks.
Asia Litwin is sponsored by Nobile Kiteboarding.In fact Nobile is the reason to why Asia started with kiteboarding in the first case. Her uncle Dariusz Rosiak is the owner of Nobile Kiteboarding, so it´s not strange that Asia rides with Nobile gears instead of Slingshot or Cabrinha like many other riders. However, Asia’s life has not only been a bed of roses. She had problem both with her hips and is still struggling with some pain issues. Another example statuing the benefits of strength training and stretching. But this trong girl is about to recover and we look forward to a great year with Asia litwin!
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Yapak Beach Boracay
On February - 21 - 2012
Bulabong and White beach are not the only beaches on Boracay. There is two other beaches, one privat and one that is open for everyone, it´s called Yapak beach. Yapak Beach are located “far” from the centre of Boracay (the length of Boracay is 7 km) where all the tourists are gathering. To get there you either have to walk a few kilometers or take a tricycle for about 100 pesos. I went there today and I can tell you that it´s well worth a visit!
Yapak beach is a calm beach where you don’t have to share the sand with hundreds of other people, in fact you almost have the beach pretty much to yourself :)
The water is crystal clear just like on White beach, but it gets deep immediately and there are some strong currents to be aware of. The sand is not as powder fine as the sand on white beach, but instead there are plenty of shells and corals that make the sand more interesting :)
Behind Yapak Beach is a big wall of dense vegetation, but also hundreds of coconuts palms. Two Philippine kids that were walking along the beach decided to make a stop and refill their energy depots, simply by picking some coconuts. But how do you pick them when the coconut palms are 10 meters in height? Well, you climb!
I was learned the technique how to climb in coconut trees, but it was not as easy as it looks like on the video… I manage to get about 2 meters up before I gave up. The key is to climb fast and it helps a lot if you’re light, about 30 kg or so is good! Here are some other photos from Yapak beach.
Found a nice gym the other day btw, so if you ever visit Boracay and feel for a tough workout you might consider visiting this highly modern and well equipped gym!
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What Is Oldschool Kitesurfing?
On February - 19 - 2012
Oldschool a.k.a Airstyle is the original riding style that the “old” kitesurfers practiced before media and higher powers started to turn kitesurfing aginst the freestyle discipline.
Airstyle DVD is just what it sounds like, a DVD packed with 400 hundred tricks that has been overlooked behind the Freestyle kitesurfing. Here is your chance to discover what the “real” oldschool kiteaurfing is all about!
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What is Kitesurfing?
On February - 16 - 2012
Some people have preconceived ideas and opinions about kitesurfing. I think this picture really hits the nail! =)
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Best KiteSurfing Video 2012
On February - 15 - 2012
This is by far one of the best kitesurfing videos for 2012. Great music, nice editing, good variety (not just 9 minutes of unhooked handle passes) and the spots where these guys are kiting looks absolutely amazing! If you ever plan to make a kitesurfing video, use this video as a template and your video will become a success!
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Bicol Express
On February - 14 - 2012
Had another kick-ass meal this evening. The dish I ate is called Bicol Express (also spelled Beacol Express). A simple, yet very tasty and popular Philippine dish
You only need a handful of different ingredients, namely:
- Pork
- Chili
- Red onion
- Garlic
- Black Pepper
- Bagoong Alaman (shrimp paste)
- Coconut milk
- Salt
You pretty much just fry all ingredients except the coconut milk which you add after the other ingredients are fried a bit, then just stir it all for a couple of minutes. You can google for it and find many slightly different recipes for this delicious dish!
They have another dish here in the Philippines which I havn’t dared to try yet. It´s called “Dinuguan” and it’s made from a pig’s intestines, snout and ears in cooked pig’s blood. I´ll try it before I leave the Philippines, I promise!
The weather here has been quite shitty lately, so no kiteboarding for me. Will probably have to wait till thursday before I take another kite session. Last time I was out in the water I stepped on a sea urchin which was quite unpleasant… As you may know there are hundreds of different sea urchins. Luckily those that gaze in the water of Boracay are harmful. Still I got about 20 spines in my foot, that wasn’t to easy to get out. Here in the Philippines the treatment against sea urchin spines is human urine and/or vinegar. I was actually told by a few different Philippinos that I should pee on my own foot. However, boiled vinegar that you add on the spines with a cotton swab works just as good. I tried the vinegar method which seemed to help a bit, but the spines were still in my foot… so I ended up buying a needle for 1 pesos, with which I could remove the spines. My foot is now fine =)
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Snowkiting = Flying!
On February - 11 - 2012
Talk about long hang time! This guy gets some pretty nice height as well! Don’t miss the nice grab at 0:24 :)
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Kitesurfing in Western Australia 2012
On February - 11 - 2012
Lots of kiteboarders that live in the colder parts of the world currently spend their holidays kitesurfing like maniacs in the Western Australia. You gotta take the chance while it lasts =P
This fact goes hand in hand with the amount kite videos that are being pumped out on the internet. Here is another cool video that was just released =)
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Boracay – Fighting Roosters
On February - 11 - 2012
Been sick for the last two days, or at least I caught a cold. But at least it seems to be one of the harmful colds, today is the third day since I caught the cold and I feel more or less recovered. I think it was the air condition that made me sick. Had my bed placed next to the AC and woke up cold a couple of times. Did some reshuffling in my room and turned down the cooling effect on the AC, so hopefully this was the one and only cold that I will get here on Boracay.
So, it´s been some lazy days while I had my cold. Went to a rooster farm with Japs. They had about 100 roosters, but no chickens… so what on earth are they doing with all these roosters? Well, they train them to become figthers! Rooster fighting is popular activity in the Philippines and there are apperantly lots of money to win. Japs told me that the price for a full grown fighter (a 2 years old Rooster) is 5000 pesos, that´s about $120. At this farm they had about 100 roosters.
Went to the Talipapa Market (the local market on Boracay). They sell lots of fresh fish there, many different species. Bought some White Marlin this time which were put on the grill later on, damn good! For those that do not know, the White Marlin looks like a small swordfish. It weighs about 120kg and is a super fast swimmer! They can swim 100 meters in 4 seconds, i.e. 56 mph or 90 km/h.
Found a nice little shop where they sell different kinds of cakes and buns. The store was actually called Pans & Buns. Did three visists there in 2 days, so I more or less tried their whole collection by now which includes, coconut bun, banana cake, monggo rolls, peanut rose etc… 1 bun is about 12 cent, so the price is affordable =)
I end this post with some pictures of some colorful kites, c ya!
