After it had been prosponed for a lot of times because of lack of wind last weekend we finally had the dutch nationals. This was the first time for me since two years that I was not in the organisation I thougt. Only the friday befor I got a call that the photographer wasn't able to be there and if I wanted to take pictures.
I was going there anyway to compete so taking some pictures wouldn't be a problem.
The pictures I took are also on the site, you can find them here.

Then me and the competition..
I fucked up.. Saturday the wind was offshore and although I hadn't been riding footstraps
for a few months I decided to ride footstraps because I couldn't walk back upwind when I was riding boots. The worst decision ever, I sucked riding straps.. Lost my board with every jump I made and so I got kicked out inmediately.. Hoping for the doubles to get back in the comp.
Sunday I came on the beach and there was 22knots side onshore... WOW!! GREAT this was wat I was waiting for! I couldn't get the smile of the face knowing I had to start in the first heat of the day. I would show them now what you can do in boots( I was the only one riding boots)! So I did, I had the best heat of my life landing almost everything what I can. Perfect, I was really happy and advanced to the next round easily.

Then disaster stroke again, 10 minutes before my next heat I went out of the tent away from the warm tea to get ready. But fuck, my lines were tangled! In my rush I didn't take them out as quick as normal because of the stress it gave me. So when I got my kite up and went to the water to put my boots on the green flag came up already! No more time to put my boots on so I grabbed a footstrap board again.. That did it, this one was a little better then the other one and I could stay in the board for several jumps but I was so pissed that it went shit anyway.

Now I'm just going to focus on Brazil and Norway, some sick stuff is going to happen this winter!
But I've learned a hard lesson, have your equipment always ready properly before a comp.

I'm really happy to announce that Bram Bast, Kor de Jong and me are going to Brazil for two months!
For me this is the third time but still I'm really looking forward to find some new spots new Jericocuara but also just for training hard to learn some new wakestyle tricks. I already have my eye on quite a few that I really wanna stick when we are going back to the Netherlands. Also really cool is that my Nobile teammate Judith Roetman is coming to Brazil as well, we're definetely gonna take some sick pictures and will shoot some really nice movies!

Also I arranged that I'm going back to Norway(Haugastol). The beginning of march I will go there and I will stay two months there for some great snowkiting. I'll probably go to Sweden again as well to do the Nordic masters.

Stay tuned for some sick pictures, movies and whatever coming up when we are in and when we are back from Brazil and Norway!

This month there is a nice article about snowkiting in the Kitesurfmagazine. I wrote it last year and now, with the winter coming up they placed it in their magazine.

Here is the article: