Belgiummmm

Check out some random screenshots from last session on The Pointe, France!

Temperature is rising and it's already possible to ride for more than 1.5hours. Pretty sweet!
Last week we had 3 sessions, 2 in France and 1 in Belgium.
How sick is it when the wind is offshore, you can just take the car and go to another country for a session.

Yesterday I had my first session on my homespot since January.. Wind was pretty shit but I tested the RPM 12m and liked it.

So yeah, life in Belgium is still nice. We only have too much rain!
In 2 days I'm going back to Holland to give a judging course for the Dutch federation for Competition kiteboarding. These guys are doing a great job!

That's what happening here..

Dakhla The End

Dakhla and internet doesn't match.. That's why I didn't keep my blog up to date..
At the moment I'm waiting for my flight to Barcelona to go to the second PKRA tourstop in Leucate, France.

I had two nice days at home between Morocco and France. It's always nice to be in Belgium for a couple of days. (2 days are enough)

The competition in Dakhla was nice. Many riders improved their riding so it was fun to watch.
After this winter the level of riding is really high. A lot of riders are riding really powered and combine a lot of tricks with grabs, which is awesome!

We didn't have the normal Dakhla conditions. Last year we were riding 7m and 9m everyday, but this year we used all the sizes. We also had a couple of days without wind.
Check out what we did when there was no wind:

I did some backflips with Alberto Rondina.

And some running off the dunes..

A lot of fun without technology..

Check out the event pictures made by Toby Bromwich on the PKRA facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=127400413970019

Toby made a nice picture of the judging tower in the middle of the water.
We were lucky that the water wasn't that deep, so we could walk back!

The wind during the singles was pretty good, and the finals were amazing!
Alex and Youri were pushing it in the finals. Two different styles but both sick to watch!
Alex took the win with his smooth and powered style. It was very close and I think we will see a lot of close heats this year!

Also the girls were rocking! Looks like they trained on power a lot.. Bruna and Karolina were in the final and Bruna took the win.

In the doubles the windgods didn't like us that much.. We had to postpone sometimes.
But at the end the wind picked up again and the finals could be held.

Youri and Alex were in the finals again and Youri had to win twice to become 1st..
The wind was a little bit on/off so it could go either way, but Youri made it.

In the girls devision Bruna made it after a nice technical heat between her and Karolina!


Next up is PKRA Leucate, and I hope I will be able to update my blog more often.
So stay tuned!
You will be able to follow the event live on live.prokitetour.com
Livestream, live commentating,... everything will be live this event and we will be judging with tablets so our scores go straight to the internet!

Dakhla!

Finally it was time to leave Belgium again! On the 18th of March I left Brussels together with Axel and Christophe. It's always fun if you don't travel alone.

We were afraid that we would have to pay 150 euro's for the kitegear, but it was 40. Great succes!

Always nice to have Doritos and beer during the flight!

We had a small stopover in Casablanca airport, where we met Forest and Gisela. So now it was 5 of us to play card games to kill time.

We finally arrived at Dakhla airport and when the boardbags arrived it was sick to see!

I've never seen so many boardbags at one small place!

Check the picture!

After a busride through the desert we finally arrived at the Dakhla attitude camp.

The morning after it was time for a first session!

After more than 2 months no freestyle it was nice to ride again, and it's even better with my new Brunotti board!

The wind was pretty gusty and it was choppy as hell, but it was only a warming up session.

In the afternoon we went to the speed spot. It's a super flat spot almost 15minutes downwind. 

The speedspot is amazing! The wind is not gusty and the water is super flat.

Everybody was riding his or her 7 and in the beginning it was perfect for freestyle.

After a while the wind picked up and we started to jump over eachother, it was nice to ride with so many friend again in these conditions.

We filmed a little bit so I took a screenshot of me jumping over Forest Bakker his kite.

Check it out!

Here you've got another screenshot from a latemobe that I tried..

At the end of the day we had to do an upwinder back to the camp.. That was hard after a whole day of kiting! But we all made it!

We finished the day with a few cold beers and some music. Enjoying life..

The second day everybody was so tired after the first day, and it was really really windy so we took a day off.

Next to kiting and chilling there is not a lot to do, but it's still nice.

Now it's time to eat!

Cheers!