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As a Pro-kiteboarder I have the privilige to go
to the most beautiful places of the world. Every
now & then, I will try and give you some
insight on those beautiful places and cool trips
by writing a little tripreport.
You can find them here.
If you are thinking of visiting one of those
supercool places, be sure to ask the sportstravel
specialist happy sports! They now where and when
to go, so contact them and be sure you have the
best time!
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Cabarete,
DR
After I went Delta-flying with my mom, she
dropped me of at the airport in Dusseldorf, but that was
like 15 before my flight was taking off. So i had to
spend a night on the airport. finnaly the time was there
to go in the air, but ofcourse 1 hour delay. I was so
tierd that i slept most of the time in the plane (what
normally is not possible for me). half way my battery of
my i-pod went down, so that was a big peg. so after a
hectick flight I finnaly arrived in Puerto Plata.
Ruben was picking me up but he didn't know when
my plane tough downed, so we missed each other. Luckely
a guy from extreme hotel was the to pick up some other
dudes and i could drive with him. the wind was nice side
shore and 30+ so i went for a session on my 7m2. After
my session we had dinner and a small party where Jo and
I left early, but then Susi, Maaike and Ruben came to
kick our as out or our bed and we partyed on till 2/3
o'clock and went to bed.
Next day we had a nice
breakfast and a bad kitesession becouse my jetlag kicked
in. so for my it's early to bed tonight. and hopefully
tomorrow is better.
And if tomorrow was better. I
kited whole day and it was fucking clean conditions for
my 9m2. The day after i went with Brunotti to Las
Terrenas for a 2days fotoshoot for the new collection.
fuck and the new clothes are fucking cool. didn't kite
there to much but we had a nice spearfishing sessions.
The big fish are to smart so we only shoot little fish,
but it was fun. After we had a nice BBQ and went to
sleep.
next morning we were up at 6 for a
spearfish session and some photos. then we had a 3 hour
drive back to cabarete. and had a not to perfect kite
session on my 9m2, but it's warm so no
complains.
i've been here for over a week now and
hell i like it till now on. had some very nice kiting
sessions over here. But the next week doesn't look to
good for the wind. so i'll be doing some other shit then
only kiting.
we woke up and there was no wind. so
we went with a few people renting a motor, quad and a
buggy. We were riding almost all day in rivers and moddy
shit and it started to rain so crazy that we were wet in
a sec. so we had to find a nice place to take a shelter.
and then we fucked up the starting motor of the quad and
we drove full into some nice deep pool of water on the
road. We even tripped over the buggy. we went back home
after and had some food and went to play pool at extreme
and went to bed.
We had some none wind day's
filled up with funny things like paintball and partying
and relaxing, but from now on it's gonna be a focused
way to the PKRA. there's gonna be lots of wind so thats
good for a few more days of trainging.
2day there
were super good conditions for your 9 later on even for
7. I had a really good session 2day landed almost
everything. After a session from like 3 hours i was dead
and quited. There was a photoshoot from redbull in El
Quentro so I went there with ruben on his motor. I know
for sure 2night is gonna be a easy night for me, I
think.
Than The PKRA Started.
The
registration is over and the heats are made. where gonna
do a dingle for the trails.
Today is no wind so
we all went to Susis room to chill and do some i-net and
PS1 (Tekken3). now i'm of to the beach to check what is
going on.
Yesterday the wind was a bit on sure so
we had to stay close to the competition aeria. At 1 time
the wind picked up and we all stressed and pumped up our
kites for the trails. The judges wanted to go and there
was the 1 heat going of. I was in the 5th heat and still
pumping. They shortend the heats to 5/2 (thats 5min.
heat and 2 min. transision time) so I had to go and
hurry up. When I was ready and the first heat was done.
it was raining like a mofo and the rain killed the wind
so no trails.
this morning I woke up at 9 and had
a shower and relaxed some listenned to some music. 10:30
skippers meating. I was all pumped up and ready to
start. We didn't had to wait that long for the wind and
started the trails all over again. I was up against 2
local guys and i was out on my 13m2. Came 1st in my heat
so that means I go straight to the 3rd round. I had a
nice resting periode. I was up and toke out my 11m2 it
was lite but doable. The green flag was down so the heat
was almost over, when they cancled my heat (because of
the wind). We had a 5 min break and I grabbed my 13m2
this time. Went out did some nice trickes and got treu
to the main event . The Dutchies in the main event
are:
Ruben Lenten
Kevin Langeree
Youri
Zoon
Randy Hereman
Sander Lenten
Today I
woke up at 9 o'clock and had the morning sessions. you
know shower breakfast and some relaxing with music. Than
I toke a motoconio to the beach where the competition
was. and pumped up my kites. It looked realy good and it
became realy good I was in the 6th heat against A.
Jaubert and had the heat of my life. I landed
everything. The heats where still 5/2 so it went realy
quick. I passed to the next heat and came against Cesar
Portas and lost. The final was between Aaron and
Etienne. Aaron won the first elimination. They started
the dubble but after the firt round the rain came and
toke our wind. So we had to call it a day. Tomorrow they
take the competition to kitebeach. Where the dubble is
going on and if there is time they wanna do a best
trick.
The last day of the PKRA was a day with
not to good wind. The competition area was moved to a
better place: Kitepark. But to bad we were underpowerd
on 13m2. When the dubbel elimination started was the
wind a bit to lite and the heat before mine was cancled.
waited 5min and did a rerun. I had to go against M.
Blomvall and lost. there was also a best board-off,
kiteloop and HP. After the closing ceremony was there no
wind any more so thats sucks. I got pritty borred and
was glad that i could go home. |
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