Time to get you guys updated again. There’s happened quite a few things in the last two month. Mid of July I went back to Perth. From there I went to Bali to enjoy brilliant surf breaks and the island. After a few days you’ll get used to the smell of the essences. A tip I have to tell you is the Italian place near Padang Padang where the owner looks like Kelly Slater. It’s super yummy there.
After that I went back to Germany to the Beetle Kitesurf Worldcup. I competed there and worked for Kitelife at the exhibition tent. I could also get my hands on the latest gear to test for the up coming issue.
Now I am back in Perth again to enjoy the winter swell and strong frontals. I have to go back to Germany in a month’s time though to write my final exam paper. I am so looking forward to this - NOT!
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.
Follow this link to vote!
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..
