Hey folks,

the spot is mind blowing here! It’s a little choppey but apart from that whenever the sun is shining and the temperature – gradient is big enough it’s blowing with 20kts+. In the lake there’s a big wale (the lake is connected to the sea) that show’s up every here and then to breathe. After Mike and friends picked me up at Vancouver airport we took the next ferry to Victoria, slept over there and then hit the road to Lake Nitinaht. It was so crazy … we drove on the dirtroad for several hours seeing nothing but trees and a few rivers. Arriving at the campground I wouldn’t wanna believer there’s a kitespot here until I spotted the first kites in between the trees. The wind is so smooth here, it’s amazing!!

Well, the competition is about to start so I better get down to the beach. More infos and pictures later today.

Regards from the middle of nowhere,

Sebastian

Well … it’s been ages since I actually wrote something here. To cut a long story short. Many exams were the reason I nearly had no time to go ride and train the last weeks. In addition to that I broke my wrist on the cable park and had to take a break. Now it should be fully healed and I hope so much I can ride again without any problems. On Wednesday I’ll be catching a flight to Vancouver/BC to meet our importer Mike Dowie – flysurfer.ca – and travel around Vancouver Island a bit. Starting with an event on lake Nitinat coming weekend and another event in Squarmish the following weekend.

I’ll have to see what I do about the competitions. Think I won’t compete in the first weekend because I need some time to get back on track and do all my tricks after not riding for so long. The second weekend I’ll be competing. In between Mike and me will travel around the amazing countryside of BC and shoot some photos, so stay tuned!!

Sebastian

After a few months of studying and mainly wakeboarding I am back now on the road with Nicky d. B. for photo & video and Dylan van der Meij for some more variety in the riding! The destination: Voss/Norway. We’ll be driving up there tomorrow should arrive in time to get our tents set up and have some sleep for a busy week ahead.

We’ll be driving to the Folgefonn – glacier and pray for wind so we can snowkite on the top of the glacier. Then we’ll be shooting on the lake of Voss. Brought my big wetsuit since I heard that it’ll be freeeeeeezing cold there! We’ll see …

Anyway … gotta go and pick up the guys who are heading to Flensburg today by train. All the way from Holland … I am happy I don’t need to do that trip on top to the 1000km ahead!

Stay tuned

Sebastian

So here it finally is – our video from Thailand! Nick did a great job on the editing … we filmed it all on the Canon 7D which isn’t only an amazing camera for taking pictures but as well for filming full 1080p – HD!
Enjoy the footage, enjoy the colors,

Sebastian

EXEAT 2 Thailand ‘10 – The Movie from Flysurfer Kiteboarding on Vimeo.

During Sunday and Monday we were not that lucky regarding the wind. On Sunday no races were sailed nor any freestyle heats finished. Still, it was nice to have a day off and chill out on the beach. It was supposed to get windy again really early on Monday – morning so the organizers set the skippersmeeting to 5am!! Yeah … that’s right … 5am! The plan was to party until then but unfortunately they stopped the music around 2am due to some rules in Holland. We were “lucky” anyway and there was not enough wind for doing more freestyle.

When I woke up I had to rush to the beach like crazy because they decided to start one more ultra – lightwind courserace. It was kind of crazy … half of the fleet didn’t even make it around the course.

It’s sad that again there was nearly no wind on this event. We finished 5 races but no freestyle. Overall I finished on the 8th place.

Now it’s time to study again …

Sebastian