Windsurfing, Kiteboarding, SUP & Foiling
Windsurfing, Kiteboarding, SUP & Foiling
Warning: Kitesurfing kites are not designed for tow-up and these stunts, executed by professional riders at their own risk, should not be copied. Chief tow-up officer Jesse Richman prepares the crew for a show this weekend at the Mondial du vent. This is an unofficial show. Find more on the actual GKA Kiteboarding World Tour…
The first ever winners of a GKA Kiteboarding World Tour Air Games event are crowned, with Jesse Richman from Hawaii and 13-year-old freestyle phenomenon Mikaili Sol taking the spoils of the first battle! Don’t forget to follow us on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/globalkitesports/ https://www.facebook.com/globalkitesports/ Source: GKA KITE WORLD TOUR
Warning: Kitesurfing kites are not designed for tow-up and these stunts, executed by professional riders at their own risk, should not be copied. GKA Kiteboarding World Tour Air Games riders Kevin Langeree and Jesse Richman discuss the thrills and dangers of light wind tow-up with a kite – ahead of this weekend’s show in Leucate.…
Brazilians Mikaili Sol and Carlos Mario are the GKA Kiteboarding World Tour Germany 2018 champions! DELIVERANCE AT DAWN The first order of today’s dawn raid was to take care of the remaining women’s single elimination semi-final between Champion-elect Mikaili Sol and Pauline Valesa; Sol needing just this heat win to be assured of the Championship (on better count-backs than her closest rival Hannah Whiteley), come what may in the final and then the double elimination. It’s a challenge in itself to ride at your best at 6.30am, let alone when your first World Championship counts on it. Managing the mind of a 13 year-old can be a challenge on many levels, but the Swiss ex-snowkiting world champion and youth coach of excellence Fabio Ingrosso said that this morning Mika was already up and came to wake him; a change from the distracted talent he was trying to keep focused in yesterday’s stop / start heats with up and down winds. Mikaili, primed for success Credits due, the strong forecast held true for today and delivered nature’s payback after bizzarrely robbing us of what really should have been the highest wind event of the year at round one in Leucate. Inexplicably, …
Carlos Mario was the winner of the Single Elimination at Fehmarn, on Day One of the Air Games Germany 2018. Jesse Richman started this event with a slim lead over second placed rider, and two time freestyle world champion, Carlos Mario. If either of them manages to go on and win this event, they will win the World Championship. Carlos Mario has moved himself a step closer to a third world title by winning the single elimination contest which ran to completion on this the first day in Germany. In a twist of fate he was helped by the fact that an addictively competitive Aaron Hadlow was once again the talk of the day, finding good form in very mixed conditions to be able to beat Jesse in the semi final. Although Aaron wasn’t landing as many double handle-passes as the younger generation he was up against, his smooth big airs, assured kite loops in average winds and the most attractive of all the board-offs we’ve seen in this contest this season mixed technicality with flow. In several close heats, the master Hadlow was back to his old tricks, tactically spot on and jumping ahead of his heat rival to …
The GKA Air Games Cabarete takes flight. Today was flat-out from the start and stacked with heats at the GKA Air Games Cabarete as 38 riders battled through the single-eliminations powered by the super-consistent Cabarete conditions. After yesterday’s slow start, the riders were eager to get moving and the men’s division was up first with a posse of talented local riders taking to the water for the first time on the GKA Kiteboarding World Tour, all of them out to represent on home turf! Hilario the home town hero Robinson Hilario was impressive from the beginning, blending big airs with old school flair before switching to his wakestyle board with boots and stomping powered technical passes. This was a tactic we’d regularly see throughout the day, with riders making sure they’d racked up some high scoring, unhooked tricks before heading back to shore and going out with their strapped board and sending some airs (or vise versa). In round two, the first riders began to drop and some of the tour’s top riders hit the water for the first time. Jesse Richman struck hard with a huge double half cab and Carlos Mario, who took third in Tarifa, exploded into …
THE END OF NEW BEGINNINGS In twenty years of the annual Mondial du Vent, we reach the end of the first week in the event’s history to have suffered a completely windless spell. Only the biggest mega loop ever! Maxime Chablot channelling all his strength into the jet-ski tow-up show this afternoon / All photos: Toby Bromwich We must remember that everything moves in cycles and that next year Leucate will probably be back to doing what the region does best: delivering pumping event conditions. So while the wind Gods have re-set their clocks this time, we look forward to round two of the GKA Kiteboarding World Tour in Tarifa at the end of June. An event at one of kiting’s true meccas, with some lucky credits built up into our wind account in France, we should be in for stacks of exciting heats as the Air Games finally take-off. GKA Secretary General Joergen Vogt with Lewis Crathern and Aaron Hadlow after this Sunday’s closing briefing, that left the riders and crew all excited for what is to come in Tarifa This week has of course seen the riders and crew get the chance to come together to agree on …
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