A new discipline is born as the GKA Riders take flight in the first Strapless Tow-Up Big-Air comp! The crowd await the wow-factor to kick off! / Photo: Joern Pollex The wind was light on Friday but with beautiful sunshine beating down on Fehmarn there was an autograph signing for the fans and then – always eager to entertain – the riders put on a show for a crowded beach full of onlookers with the world’s first ever ‘Strapless Tow-Up Big-Air contest’! Sharing stoke in the sunshine / Photo: Joern Pollex Paulino Pereira manned the jet-ski, gunned the engine and towed the riders who held their edge for as long as possible before sending their kites and boosting while the jet-ski pulled them skywards. When they could go no higher the riders ejected themselves from the tow-line and looped their kites as though their lives depended on it as they descended. Keahi de Aboitiz nailed the biggest jump of the day with what must have been at the very least a 35 metre jump and he somehow rode away clean! AIRton Cozzolino was riding a 14 metre kite and went big but he couldn’t come close to Keahi’s jump and …