All the big air action coming at you live today from Fuerteventura! Source: GKA KITE WORLD TOUR
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GKA Freestyle World Cup | Fuerteventura 2019
Yesterday was an all-time first in competitive kite sports as twin-tip kiteboarders and strapless freestylers joined forces in the GKA Fuerteventura Big Air Invitational. The plan was simple: two teams of four – consisting of two twintip riders and two strapless freestylers – would go head to head in a battle for the skies to…
GKA Fuerteventura – Here’s What Nearly 20 Seconds of Hang-time Looks Like
Report from the Big Air Competition, with a strapless hangtime record! The Big Air competition is supposed to be the secondary discipline for the GKA Kite-Surf World Tour if there’s time to run a show once the main event has been completed. Today at Sotavento was anything but secondary to anything. The action was mental! The Big Air contest riders ended up playing catch the sky hook this afternoon at GKA Kite-Surf World Tour Fuerteventura with some very unusual upper level winds that saw some competitors not just getting extra lift once or twice… Airton in fact registered one incredible slice of hang-time at 20 seconds by repeatedly heli-looping his kite overhead! He just kept going… and going! Hooked and holding on! Airton disappears… When he eventually landed out of the competition zone all the riders, crew and crowd were on their feet, head in hands, speechless at what they’d just seen in this quarter final. Airton pulled himself up, looked back the beach (which was now a long way upwind of him) and we could see him waving back at the crowd wondering himself quite what had just happened? His head was surely still spinning because that was the …