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Kevin Langeree is the 2019 Red Bull King of the Air Champion

Dutchman defends his title in emphatic fashion Kevin Langeree won a closely-contested three-man final battle at Kite Beach in Cape Town on Wednesday 6 February, to retain his title. This is the Dutchman’s third Red Bull King of the Air win, making him the winningest big air rider on African soil. Langeree outgunned Hawaiian Jesse Richman (2013 Red Bull King of the Air champ) and Liam Whaley (Spain) in 30-knot ‘Cape Doctor’ conditions during the 13-minute final. Spoils of war © Craig Kolesky / Red Bull Content Pool “To be up here for the third time is amazing,” Langeree commented from the podium. “Sharing it with these amazing riders is just something magical, you know!” According to Langeree he had no idea of the situation during the final as it was so close. “These guys were killing it – they were going so big!” He said. “I managed to land a new trick, so I’m stoked,” he concluded. “It think that put me on top.” Around 9000 people lined Kite Beach to watch the semi-finals and final on the day. A tale of two days The first day ran on Thursday 31 January. That day offered near perfect conditions for …

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Red Bull King of the Air 2019 – Action from Day 1

The first Four Rounds of the extreme big-air kiting contest were completed in epic conditions at Cape Town’s Kite Beach on Thursday 31 January. The ‘Cape Doctor’ Southeasterly combined with a south-west swell offered ideal conditions for the world’s 18 best big air kiteboarders to take to the skies. “We were lucky because we had a very big consistent patch of wind across the entire Peninsula,” commented Sportive Director Sergio Cantagalli after the day. The ‘Cape Doctor’ was in the house © CRAIG KOLESKY / RED BULL CONTENT POOL “It wasn’t too gusty and the wind was out of an south-south-easterly direction which was perfect,” he added. “We managed to get the best out of the day and then when the wind started to drop we made the call to come back on the next good day in the waiting period,” he explained. Don’t let your flag fall © CRAIG KOLESKY / RED BULL CONTENT POOL The judges based their scores on 70% Height and 30% Extremity. Riders needed to go as hard and high as possible – in short, pull controlled, extreme technically moves, at height. The Cape Town faithful came out © CRAIG KOLESKY / RED BULL CONTENT …

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Red Bull King of the Air 2019 – Action from Day 1

The first Four Rounds of the extreme big-air kiting contest were completed in epic conditions at Cape Town’s Kite Beach on Thursday 31 January. The ‘Cape Doctor’ Southeasterly combined with a south-west swell offered ideal conditions for the world’s 18 best big air kiteboarders to take to the skies. “We were lucky because we had a very big consistent patch of wind across the entire Peninsula,” commented Sportive Director Sergio Cantagalli after the day. The ‘Cape Doctor’ was in the house © CRAIG KOLESKY / RED BULL CONTENT POOL “It wasn’t too gusty and the wind was out of an south-south-easterly direction which was perfect,” he added. “We managed to get the best out of the day and then when the wind started to drop we made the call to come back on the next good day in the waiting period,” he explained. Don’t let your flag fall © CRAIG KOLESKY / RED BULL CONTENT POOL The judges based their scores on 70% Height and 30% Extremity. Riders needed to go as hard and high as possible – in short, pull controlled, extreme technically moves, at height. The Cape Town faithful came out © CRAIG KOLESKY / RED BULL CONTENT …

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Victor Hays – Cape Town Freeride Kiting

Visiting Cape Town for his first time, Victor Hays was welcomed by the Cape Doctor on his day of arrival. Check out his freeride session in Big Bay! Video shot by: Kyle Cabano, Ydwer Van der Heide Edited by: Kyle Cabano Music by: Eric Wright – Upbeat Electronic Indie Beat

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Learn more about the ideal conditions needed for Red Bull King of the Air

The South-easterly explained. To get big air, you need big wind. Simple really. “There is not a minimum limit of wind speed needed to give a ‘go’ to the event,” explains Sergio. Rather what the team look for are suitable and sustainable conditions in which to start the event. The call is to be made by the contest director, Olaf van Tol. “Ideally – and unless straggled for unexpected reasons – we will hardly consider any wind below an average of 25 knots (46km/h) to start with, and with a forecast to rise to 35 to 37 knots (65 – 69km/h), if not more,” he says. According to Sergio, the ideal wind direction for Kite Beach is the proverbial ‘Cape Doctor’ south-easterly. “The prevailing weather in summer comprises the South Atlantic High pressure system sitting a lot more south,” explains weather guru, professional surf forecaster and founder of Wavescape.co.za, Steve ‘Spike’ Pike. “Cape Town is situated along the eastern edge of this anti-cyclonic system. Simplistically, the counter-clockwise flow around the High forms the basis for the summer southeast trade wind that blows during summer. The dry, denser air that creates the High pressure also means sunny, dry weather.” To radically …

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The elements at play for Red Bull King of the Air

What conditions do the world’s best big air kiteboarders need to perform. To get big air, you need big wind. Simple really. That almost didn’t happen last year, and the year before, and the year before that. The story of Red Bull King of the Air 2015 could so easily have scripted along the lines of one of those wildlife channel doccies on searching for the Yeti or Bigfoot or something similar – a massive build up and suspense throughout, but then never actually finding it. After waiting out the traditional two week window period – which saw enough wind to complete rounds 1 through 3, split over two separate days – the official weather window was extended by one day…that day saw the good old ‘Cape Doctor’ (southeasterly) honk to the needed strength. It’s not good to deal in ‘what if’s’ and with the current weather patterns and long range forecast it looks unlikely that this scenario will play out again…but: “When you start playing with elements there is always a chance, if not more than one, that you might not succeed. Guess that is the reason why we call it ‘Mother nature’!” explains event Sportive Director Sergio Cantagalli. …

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Who is the best big-air kiter in the world?

Classic Cape conditions as Rounds One & Two of Red Bull King of the Air go down at Big Bay. The Cape Doctor (Southeasterly wind) draped the ‘table cloth’ over the iconic Table Mountain fashionably late on Wednesday 3 February. When it did show up though (at around 16:30 local time) the world’s best big-air kiters launched their kites and hit the 3-4 foot (1 – 1,5m) ramps (waves) of Big Bay and gave the faithful crowd everything they had been waiting for from early on in the day. It was all systems go for Red Bull King of the Air 2016! Recently-crowned South African freestyle champ Ozzy Smith started with a bang but lost out to big wind specialist Lasse Walker. Both would advance to round three through, with the third and fourth-placed riders being religated to the elimination Round Two. Riding in the opening heat of any event is always a challenge and they showed that it was going to be the riders who could best adapt to the conditions – ‘lighter’ winds – and produce variety were going to come out on top. Tom Herbert provided some of the biggest highlights of the day. He won his …

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