merry x-mas

Merry x-mas,

I wish u all a very peaceful x-mas time and lot's of good partys with your best friends.
We have a really windy week behind us and it looks like it will calm down a bit for the next few days. I'm on the water every day, practicing big air kiteloops and pumping the adrenaline.

The island is full for the next weeks, the space for each kiter gets a bit smaller... still enough, if you don't have to kite in front of the crowd all the time.
Every time i see all the crowd on white beach, i wonder how many people we need on one side of the island to flip it?
The preparation for the x-mas and new years party i s full on. We'll have our annual x-mas party in our Kiteresort tomorrow. All kite schools from Bulabog come together and celebrate with a big BBQ buffet. After that we will hit white beach for more boooze and party. 25. December and 1.january our school will be officially closed. Also instructors have a right to be hungover (-: The main reason i like x-mas over here much more then back in Europe is, that the people here are not about midnight and sunday shopping, spending as much money as possible on gifts because other people might give you more respect if the gift was very expensiv, that's all bulls*+"t,  this is about comin together and celebrate.
keep your life changing and look forward to another successful year...
life is a beach, Love
Stephan

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wind s up and down

We're blessed with wind again. after the wind flop in Hong Kong i'm back in windy Boracay. The wind s bit up and down these days, so u ride a 9m in the morning and 12m in the afternoon, but hey... it's still very good conditions, guess we're all a bit spoilt here.
Gonna get some riding pics up soon, as there are a few cameras out every day. I tried that Hadlow pro today... uhhhaaaa don't loop that biotch too hard, pure C-kite. it's better when u got an extra 50m distance to the beach, as there is no depower after the landing.

I worked on the back to blinds and raily-downloops to blind today, gotta say some were pretty succesfull, but i guess it would have been a bit better wt a clear head (-: well it was friday night... Still the best hangover cure.

Should go get my mandala spa treatment soon as my body starts to hurt in every corner. guess these kiteloops wt 12m kites are not too good for my knees and back.

time for an afternoon nap, to get some more kiting and artwork done later.
Some pics of my home my veranda, beach view

 

my home

and not to forget my cute little flatmates...

so long and thx for all the wind
xoxo ;-)

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final day...

again.. no wind, after teasing us for half of the day with 6-9kt it finally disapeared fully.
So all we got done is the course racing events. which is half of the rent... better then nothing.
we are goin to have the price giving ceremony right now.. so i will update u on all the results after that.

International Men

1. Mike Raper  (NZ) (Cabrinha)
2. Taner Kurt   (Turkey)
3. Yo              (Thailand) (Ozone)

International Women

1. Hill Siu                   (HK) (Naish)
2. Kathrin Borgwardt   (Germany) (F1)
3. Reiko kimura           (Japan) (JN)

China National

1. Dennis Wong       (Blade)
2. Davy Tang          (Star Kite)
3. Matthew Sprogg  (Slingshot)

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KTA Honk Kong first 3days

Registration day was one flat day with not a single breeze of wind, so all we got ion was all the registration and some fun on the beach. I have to say is a very nice beach down here, just not the right place for the kitesurfing on north wind conditions.
The opening thing that evening was an amazing light/laser show in downtown HK.

So on Thursday we had some strong wind coming in from the north straight down the mountain, the problem is it's very gusty and not really stable. So we try to do some freestyle but we had to cancell the thing after the first heat, it was just tooo gusty. Kites were falling out of the sky, riders were not able to launch theire kites on the beach. So we all changed to racing, it was not much easier to make a course that actually lays inside of the windarea, but we got it finally done.
The offshore wind was new to most riders and it took a while to get all the riders out to the starting line due to starting problems on the beach. After the first heat got recalled, we managed to get a full race in s in mens race as well as for the womens. I have to say the womens behave much easier when it comes to starting sequence, i think they actually listen when i tell them something at the riders meeting, while the guys just do what they think is right.
So that night i fell asleep right after dinner, was pretty nakerd from sitting on the boat the whole day, left out with no food, no drinks...

So today again no wind on the forecast, but we did the best out of it till now...
a really funny SUP competition and a riders clinic with Alberto Rondinha (famouse since he beat hadlows ass in the last PKRA round) and Julien Hosp (PKRA Judge)

so more to come later...
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