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End of snow season..
4/23/2010 9:17:07 PM

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!

ragnarok2.jpg picture by freakyboarder

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.

ragnarok.jpg picture by freakyboarder

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.

17042010012.jpg picture by freakyboarder

Red Bull Ragnarok
4/16/2010 12:22:10 AM
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:

DSC_1014.jpg picture by freakyboarder

emielrense-schellinkhout4of6.jpg picture by freakyboarder

And then another thing I'm proud of, we painted my beetle:

IMG_7857.jpg picture by freakyboarder


That's it for now, I'll post the result of the competition tomorrow.
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