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Yesterday was my birthday and I started this new year in a great way already with a new sponsor!
From now on I'll be riding for Muchachomalo, this is a very cool dutch brand that makes underwear,boardshorts and more. they look really cool and I'm very stoked to ride for them!
Check out their website at www.Muchachomalo.com
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Got my new movie from the trip I went on to Asia finished and it's in the video section right now!
It was a great trip, but filming is difficult when traveling by yourself, hope you enjoy it!
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After being on the poster of the worldcup I figured I had to be there as well.
So I jumped in the car and went there for the weekend.
It was a nice event, friday morning we were able to do the first part of the singles
and I passed to the next round. Sunday we continued but I had a bad crash on my back
(I was really happy I had my backprotector on!), couldn't breath for a bit and after some xrays
it turned out I luckily only had bruised my back!
This did make my heat a lot worse, in the end I came out as nr 8.
It's ok but I hope to do better next year!
I also made a short movie from it, but it's mainly me filming so no action from me sadly.
Maybe I have to start asking more people to do some filming for me..
Also from Asia I've got a lot of footage but not from myself.
That one is starting to come together as well and gonna be fun to watch!
Check out the clip of the Snowkite worldchampionships on my Video page HEREEE!!
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Really cool! They've used a picture from me for the poster and website for the Worldcup snowkiting in Italy.
Also on their website:
http://www.snowkite-meisterschaft.de/
I hope I'll be able to make it there and join in the compeptition, we'll see what happens!
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So here we are a month later.. WOW! So much happened,
I think I've lived two years of my life in this month.
Asia really is cool, really had to get used to the people being so friendly,
just willing to help, no need to watch your stuff all the time because there's hardly any crime,
pretty nature. All cool!
It started already pretty good in Bangkok, I arrived early in the morning at a hotel I found on the internet..
What a shitty place!!
Quickly went to another place that a friend recommended me and found a nice hotel there.
Then I did some sightseeing Bangkok.
There was a little problem with floodings because of a lot of rain before.
That night I went out for dinner and wanted to go to bed early after a long day..
But being in Bangkok I ended up in a Tuktuk race singing Anton aus Tirol with some
Austrian guys on the way to a pingpong show.. What a start!!
The next day I went to Pranburi, a place about 20km from Hua Hin,
here there's a nice beach as well and a friend of me told me to go there.
Got there in the afternoon with the wind blowing.
Stayed there for about a week having a blast!
Wind every day, nice people and again a nice party.
In Pranburi I met some Finnish people who I went to Ban Kruat with,
a small village about 100km south from Pranburi. Arriving there, full on 25-30 knots wind! Sick!!
Quickly pumped my 9 and had a nice session, just jumping high and doing some kiteloops.
Nice to have the local people watching on the beach and cheering with every big jump!
Later I heard that we were the first kitesurfers there!!
The day after I injured myself, strained a mussle in my leg or something.. Couldn't walk even!
Did get better in about a week but had to rest. So did some sightseeing,
which wasn't bad to do either since Thailand is such a pretty country!
After that I went on with the finnish to Ko Panghan where they had a bungalow on the beach
and I heard a lot about the full moon and half moon party's there I wanted to check it out.
The schedual was pretty tight and I thought I had just enough time to go to the halfmoon party
but it turned out to be a day later and I had to get back to Bangkok for my flight to Bali.
So back to Bangkok and on to Bali!! Surfing time! I was supposed to be picked up at the airport but
nobody there of course with it still being Asia.
I just knew the village where the surfcamp was so I took a cab there and found
the right camp after a while.
Really nice people and had a cool week, just surfing and cruizing around the island on my motorbike
and of course a nice party in Kuta.
By that time the organisation of the Kitesurftour asia found out that I was in Asia and
asked if I wanted to come to China to be a judge.
That sounded pretty good so I booked some flight and there I was, China!!
Really cool event, had a blast for a week!
Wind was pretty light but we managed to do the singles and some racing and I had some
nice sessions myself as well.
Now I'm in Boracay on the Philipines since about a week and it's a great place!
Next week I'll be going on to Daet for an open stop of the Kitesurftour asia and compete there.
After that I'll go to Malaysia for a few days and back home.
CHEERS!!!!
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Today I'll be flying to Thailand and start of a new adventure.
Just going to travel around Asia till the end of Christmas, trying to find the best kitespots,
find myself a nice surfboard and get some diving skills.
Got the camera with me including a new sick telelens, let's shoot some nice stuff!
Gopro is also in the bag ready for some new action shots!
I'll try to keep you guys(and girls) posted!
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I made a short clip from the footage I made with the Gopro last winter here in Norway.
It's showing in the video section, don't forget to put it in HD! Enjoy!!
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The season is over, unfortunately I haven't been riding much because I was in Norway
working for a good cause.
Still I managed to do the Kitesurf tour Europe all the way and became 9th overall,
considering I didn't ride at any other time then in the competition I'm quite happy with this result.
It was a cool experience to do a tour like this and see new spots and meet a lot of nice people on party's all
over Europe.
I've been using my new camera quite a bit as well so time for a new part on my website, the videos.
Check it out just on top here, there's some cool clips from the kitesurftour and also some older movies.
Soon there will be a new snowkite vid as well, got it almost ready and it's gonna be really cool!
Now I'm just gonna be in Norway for two more weeks and then I'll be off back to Holland,
ride the Nationals there and then flying to Bangkok(Thailand) the 3rd of November,
from there I've got no real plans yet, probably go south and try new spots,
then go to Hongkong for a bit and then on to the phillipines.
If I still got some money left I'll take of to South Africa from there and stay there in January.
We'll see what happens after that.
Opening Ceremony in Poland:
  
My new Polish ride:
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Since I can remember there was the Kiteboardopen at Noordwijk, always a great event but never windy.
It was the same this year. We only had two hours of wind the first day and were able to ride the first two
rows of the singles. Through this I made it to the 9th place after winning my heat without an opponent..
next heat was against Anton Borsuk, he's a really good rider and he advanced to the next round.
Still I was angry because I didn't get my color lycra till 2 minutes before the start and by the time that I was
at the upwind side of the competition area the heat already started and I was exhausted from running.
I complained about this with the organisation but they didn't really bother..
Made me even more angry.. well, next time!
There's also always a good party which was even better this year because it was my birthday as well.
We went full on!
Saturday I'm flying back to norway to work over there for a few months, I will still fly back now and then to do
the Eurotour, still to come are Germany, Switserland and Poland.
Well, for now that's it, here are some pictures:
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Sitting here it has been a great winter, I've never had such good conditions up here in Haugastol! So much perfect sessions with good wind and nice snow. Today we had one of those as well, good fun!
The Red Bull Ragnarok didn't really go the way I wanted it to go. I was really stoked on the race and hoping to get a good result on it.. Sadly the wind picked up from 7m/s to 25m/s one minute before the start and I had to give up. I was really feeling shit about this.. Luckily I wasn't the only one giving up, from the 110kiters who started only 4 made it to the finish!
That night we had a good party to forget the day and the next day we had the Sector cable contest on the System 2.0. This was really cool! In the qualifier I had some problems finding the sweet spot for the kicker, but in my last run I had it and managed to land a nice frontroll, which no one else had done. I was really stoked on that!!
This took me to the finals with some sick riders like Remi Meum, Sigve Botnen, Marek Zach and Aaron Hadlow.
In the finals I had a good first run with a nice flat 3 on the kicker, after that my skills dropped badly.. I was only landing grabs and couldn't even ride the rail.. After the finals I decided to just keep riding, I wanted to get my riding back like it was earlier on the day. So I went for a fully loaded flat 3 and landed on my head.. This was no good.. I couldn't see a lot anymore, my balance was fucked and speaking wasn't going to well eather..
So when I came back in the hotel people started to notice that I wasn't doing to well and Hannah took me to the doctor in Geilo. When we got there I was pretty much acting like I was really drunk when I think back on it.
The doctor told me to go to the hospital, which was 200km away.. I really didn't want to go there, because there was a good party from the Ragnarok. Only then my arm went numb and so we decided to go to the hospital for a CTscan anyway. The scan went alright an my brain is fine. Now almost a week later I'm still taking it easy but it's getting better.
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It has been a while again, I need to update more over here. So that's starting now!
I've been in Norway for two weeks, then back to the Netherlands for about a month where we had great kiting conditions as well and I've been out on the water a lot! I do feel that I need to get the feeling back a bit and I also feel that my ankle isn't as strong as it used to be, hope it'll get better soon!
At the moment I'm back in Norway again where I'm enjoying the Haugastol lifestyle. Loads of kiting and the best food you can imagine!
It's quite busy over here now because we got the Red Bull Ragnarok. A race event of 5 laps that are 13km each. I'm really looking forward to it, it's going to be a lot of fun! the forecast is 30 knots with sun, couldn't be better!
Anyways, here are some pictures:
And then another thing I'm proud of, we painted my beetle:
That's it for now, I'll post the result of the competition tomorrow.
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So it has been quiet a while here. I had some problems with my website but it's fixed now so I'll update
on what happened the past time..
First of all I moved to Utrecht and now I'm living there with kay, good fun!
Then we had a lot of snow here, it's insane. We did a lot of snowkiting and snowboarding.
I've been to winterberg as well for a few days and now I'm getting ready to go to the wasserkuppe tonight,
after that we'll continue to the ISPO in Munchen and then continue to Garmisch for two more days of
snowboarding. Good stuff coming up!
Well my writing sucks so here you got some pictures:
And we are starting up a club for kitesurfing, wakeboarding and snowboarding here in Utrecht.
So make sure you become a member of us! For now just on facebook but we're working hard to get the website online.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Utrecht/Alfa-Beta-Surfa/280686722467?ref=ts
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About two months ago a guy from the north of the Netherlands contacted me if I could give a presentation about Ditchboarding. He had seen our movie from a while ago and was looking for people who were doing something that was a little against the law but not harming anyone.
I was really stoked about it, but thought that the short movie we had wasn't enough. So I gave some friends some calls to get them together to make a new one, a better one! So off we went, carrying 3 cams, the car of my parents because it has a roofrack and some rope and boards.
We've shot this movie in two locations on the same day. On one hand I'm sad i'm not in it because it's good fun.. But it was really cold and since I wasn't even able to walk normally bacause of my ankle I'm glad I didn't go in the water.
We've posted the movie on Dumpert.nl as well where it got 80.000 views which was really cool!
So Many thanks to my parents for letting me borrow the car(which she will never do again after she's seen the movie), Kor Sander and Kay for riding in the freezing water, the farmer for entertainment!
Well, here is the movie anyways:
http://vimeo.com/7072271
By now we also did the presentation and we had a blast of a party afterwards. Great night, thnxs Floss.
This is the flyer of the evening:
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So it has been quiet here for a while. This is because about two months ago I strained my ankle and so I didn't have much news. Today though I started riding again and started in a good way as well! There were some really nice waves on Wijk and we had lots of fun riding those! Good fun!!
Then there are two publications as well, one in the calender from the dutch kiteboarding association(which you can order for 10 euro) and there's a picture in the kiteworld, this is really cool!!
All picture credits go to Sebastiaan Hogeboom!
Hopefully the next updat will be my new gear and some snowkiting action again, I'm really looking forward to riding in the snow again!!
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Like every year there's a really cool kite event on Texel.
This is not so much about competition but more about riding together, party and just have a good time. I love this principle so we went there. We meaning, pretty much al the people who went to norway and then we added Kor to it.
The forecast was sick! 40 knots of wind for friday and saturday, then a little less wind on sunday, only 20.
Good ingredients for a weekend of good fun!
We decided because of the forecast to go there friday morning although the event started saturday, but we couldn't let that wind get away. Around 1 o'clock we arrived and the people on the parkinglot told us it wasn't that much wind. So packed with the 7 and 9 we went to the beach. I don't know what they were talking about because I was overpowered on my 7 in the end. Great fun those big air jumps!! After some nice pizza we went to Martijn's place where we were staying(Thanks a lot!!), we had some drinks there and then went to the Koog where there was a really nice party! For some reason the bar thought it would be fun to put like a couple of thousand banana's on the sealling.. So it ended as a massive foodfight and everybody was completely covered in bananas! NICE!
This day was the best way to start a weekend! I couldn't get any better we thought..
The next day started with a hangover and a REALLY good breakfast made by Martijn's parents. After that we went to the beach to check out the conditions, it was quite gusty between 30 and 45 knots and there was a lot of rain.. Some went out to kite, I waited. My theory worked out perfect, after rain you'll get sunshine.
When the sun came out I went to kite and we did a hangtime contest, I ended up at the 3rd place with a hangtime of 5.07 sec.
Great fun doing those big air jumps!!
Of course our big friend Arien from Obesessed kitevids made a nice movie from the weekend as well which you can check out over here:
http://www.vimeo.com/6403564
That night we had some more party fun with banana's.
Sunday we went for a nice downwinder and pancakes with the whole group. Really nice.
What a great weekend it was!
Thanks a lot to everybody for being there and especially for Martijn and his family and the Texel locals!
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I made it to the cover of the Kite magazine here in the Netherlands, really cool!!
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I've been home for a week now, already starting to get used to it again. We had some light wind the last weeks in Norway but in the beginning we had some sick conditions there! You can see the pictures in the Gallery! Being home made me able to work a bit on my website and I decided it was time for a new design.
I hope you like, I think it's much better! Also I've been out on the water a few times and I'm really suprises by the temperature, it's really good!
Obsessed Kitevids also came by in Norway, to bad we didn't have so much wind when he was there but he still managed to make a cool movie!
Check it out in this link!!
Well, that's it for now, hope you like the design and the movie!
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While I was driving to Norway, where I'm at now. Obsessed kitevids created a Really nice movie out of the footage we made in Brazil.
You can check it out HERE
When I have I'll post some updates from Norway to, but that'll probably will wait till next month.
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