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 :)
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KTA Boracay 2012
Here is a collection of videos from the KTA competition at the Bulabong beach in Boracay.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
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Wakeboarding can be quite awesome
I´ve never really understood the big hype about wakeboarding, but suddenly I realize why so many kitesurfers are wakeboarding as well… We all know that Wakeboarding fucks up your knees and the guys who practice the sport sooner or later end up at the hospital, but I now know why they are taking these risks…
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Ocean Rodeo & Reef Girls
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
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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Tyler Brown Snowkiting
Tyler Brown snowkiting in Utah with his Best TS 17m, talk about hangtime!
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Hot surf babes!
What can be more entertaining than a cool kitesurfing video loaded with crazy action? Well, a video with nice surf babes of course! I mean how can you not love girls, water and sun? :)
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Kiteboarding in the Olympics 2016
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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2012 Redbull Ragnarok
Remi Meum is the winner of this years Redbull Ragnarok competition. Perhaps not a big surprise that one of the local guys won, beating Ruben Lenten, Sam Medysky and many other professional top riders. Anyway, congrats to Remi Meum!
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Kai Lenny – The King of Watersports!
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!
Huge snowkiting jump over house
A maniac named Marek ‘Murphy’ Zach recently made a show during the Red Bull Ragnarok 2012. Moreover Marek is a team rider for Ozone.
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Carlos Madson
Carlos Madson might be a new name for many people. He hasn’t really been in the spotlight like Youri Zoon, Ruben Lenten, Susi Mai & Co, but this does not make him a worse kitesurfer! In fact Carlos was placed 5th in the PKRA championship that recently was held now in 2012.
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Mike The Knife in Brazil
Our swedish friend Mikael Blomvall a.k.a. Mike The Knife is out with a new video from his time in Guajiro, Brazil. Mike has been spent his winter in Brazil and Boracay, kitesurfing, chilling, having fun and hiding from the cold winter back in Sweden, tough life… :P
Harry Vogelezang – old but still crazy!
A continuation from the previous video with Harry Vogelezang. Harry is an excellent windsurfer and kitesurfer, but even the pro´s can sometime make mistakes and so does Harry… but he takes it easy :)