dimarts, 27 de juliol del 2010

PKRA St.Peter Ording (Germany)


It's been 10 long days of competition in Germany, probably the longest event of the PKRA. It is hard to be competing for such a long period, specially if you're doing both disciplines (freestyle and Racing) 'cos you're never released.
The competition started with a couple of very light wind days, so the races were started on the water with only 6 knots. For X-Mas i'll ask Santa for a 15m kite!!! I couldn't even finish all the races with my 12m when all the others riders were using a 15-16 and even 17m kites!
We also had one day of no wind. It was fun making some pics with some of the girls!!
My first heat in Freestyle was against Asia Litwin, defenetly not an easy one. Her first trick was a Slim-chance, so from that moment I had no pressure at all, so I just had enjoyed my heat! The wind dropped a lot but I could land a railey to blind and a backroll surf pass. So even I didn't go through I was happy with my performance.
On the double elimination I had no luck at all. In the minute 3 of it, the quick release of my harness opened and I lost my kite...so that was it.

On the other hand, I had a really great time with the German LF Family!! Thanks Mischa for picking me up at the airport and for the fantastic tour by bike in Hamburg, thanks Heiko and Karina for driving me to SPO; thanks Tom and Michael for everything during the event, thanks Jan and Nina for driving me back to Hamburg; and Malte, thank you for the night tour too and driving me back to the airport, and all the rest of you guys for making me feel like at home and teaching me some German too!!
Hope to see you all somewhere soon!!

divendres, 16 de juliol del 2010

SPANISH CHAMPION COURSE RACING 2010!!



This year is being awesome for me!! I’m getting results I Could not imagine I could get, at least so soon! It’s being only 9 months since I took the break from my job to focuss 100% on the kitesurf and here you have the results: 1st in Vietnam and Philippines in the KTA, 4th in PKRA Thailand, 2nd in KTE Austria, and SPANISH CHAMPION in Lanzarote!
And now I’m just back from Lanzarote (Canary Islands) where the Spanish Championship was held from the 6th till the 11th of July in Playa de Famara.
More than sixty riders from all over the country were registered in the event and I’m super stoked with my first place in the Course Racing event, winning 7 out of 7 races and also with the second place in Freestyle.
We had one day of no wind and another of super light conditions, which made impossible to run the doubles eliminations of waves and girls freestyle.

Here you have a few pictures from the contest.
Now I’m on the plane to St.Peter Ording (Germany) for the PKRA event which will take place from the 17th till the 25th July and where I’ll meet a few of the LF crew. I’ll keep you posted!

dijous, 1 de juliol del 2010

Getting ready for the Spanish Championship


Hey!

I'm just getting ready for the Spanish Championship. This past week I've been in St. Pere Pescador training hard for the competition. In the photo you can see all the gear i'm using this 2010: Liquid Force Havoc Kites (perfect for all styles: waves, freestyle and racing), Aura board and Aura harness, and the Flyworks racing board.
In two days I'm leaving to Lanzarote where the contest will be held from the 6th to the 11th in Famara beach. I'm really excited about it 'cos the spot is amazing, I just hope we'll have good conditions too!