A nice summer video from WA Fremantle featuring some great riders such Alberto Rondino, Luke Whiteside, Alex Parker, Jake Higgins and a bunch of other skilled kiteboarders, enjoy!
Western Australia – Fremantle
The Kite Show
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.
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BEST TS TEST
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
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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Perfect kite session
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
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
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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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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With A Kite – The Evolution of True Boarding
A very interesting project is going on just as you read this. A guy named Adam Boozer is about to make a documentary about kiteboarding. We´ve seen tons of kitesurfing videos from different brand and riders. Cool videos with sick action, nice scenary featuring people that lives the kiteboarding lifestyle.
But what´s missing is a film that shows how advanced kiteboarding is today and how extremely hard the core of top pro riders work to make kiteboarding as extreme as it is today. And where has kitboarding have to go next to be accepted by the mainstream? This is what Adam’s documentary will focus on or as Sam Brandson says in the teaser below “We need an epic, Billabong Odyssey style doc that puts kiteboarding on the map.”
For further information about this project check out Kickstarter – With a Kite
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A windy day in Boracay
This post is dedicated to kitesurfing. It´s been some sunny and windy days in Boracay and my camera is full of pictures from the kite beach in Boracay. Hope you enjoy this little “kite album” and the movie I made for you :)
Lots of “famous” kiteboarders visit Boracay to kite. Mikael Blomwall, Toby from kiteforum.com, Susa Mai just to mention a few that has been here recently. Toby is currently filming for his coming Airstyle DVD.
Here is the video. Unfortunately I didn’t managed to remove the noise from the wind and I have no GoPro, so don’t expect to much :P At least the music is good, in case you like Nine Inch Nails :)
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Best Teaser
Best are probably most known for their hot promo girls that we usually see posing in bikinis with a Best kite in their hand, or one girl watching as her friend bends over to pump the kite. But Best are actually designing kites as well and pretty good ones too! Their new teaser is a bit lame in my opinion, but still inpiring, here it is: