Finally the top 20 pictures of the Kite Worldwides photo contest have been published. They were more than 820 pictures to chose of. I made it into the top 20! It’d be so good if u vote for it cos I wanna give the prize to the photographer. The picture was taken by David Sonnabend again who is a super nice guy and always super patient when taking photos in the water. Just follow the link for it and push the “like button”. If there is non, you have to “like” the group first. Don’t worry, you can leave after the week of voting again. Thanks so much in advance and I hope it’ll work out for the David, the photographer.

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A couple of weeks ago we had the last stop of the Kitesurf-Trophy on the island Fehmarn. The spot itself is far away from being the most adorable beach to go to but if u r lucky having side offshore winds u’ll have really good fun there. In the first round I had to go against Marvin Heimke from St. Peter Ording. I had a solid heat landing a KGB, kiteloop handle pass, s-bend kung-fu pass, blind judge, slim-chance and a frontmobe. So I advanced. In the next heat I was up against Mario Rodwald. The wind dropped slightly to 10 knotes. I could at least land a slim-chance, backmobe, blind judge and a frontmobe. But as the wind was too light I struggled the rest of the heat staying in the judging area. In the end, it really doesnt matter what tricks u show against Mario cos he is a hell of a rider and pushes the sports so much. The final was again Stefan Permien against Mario Rodwald. Mario cld win again. I was so keen on the double elimination to not always be kicked out by the German Champion. The forecast looked promising. Eventually, they run through the doubles for the youngsters and women. So no double for the men. I was dissapointed as there was enough time to go through it.
Yesterday I went rock-climbing with friends in Berlin. That was super fun. Such a shame there’s nothing like that where I live. Today we’re going paddling over the weekend. So that’ll be fun as well..

Friday, the Double Elimination was ridden. Andy Yates could win many heats. In the end he just could be stopped by Youri Zoon who was killing it again. Andy came fourth. Youri won against Aaron Hadlow in a super close heat. So Aaron ended up third. Youri got a bit tired and lost against Kevin Langeree who has won the event for the third time. Joanna Litwin could defend her first place, so Bruna Kajiya came second and Karolina Winkowska third..
Tomorrow there’ll be more news with a hung over and a pair of sunnies..