Supported By Sno22

Posted: February 1st, 2010 - No Comments.

It has been a long time since my last update. I had to do my exams and luckily I passed every one of them. After that I had pretty hectic 10 days of reconditioning our home. Now after that I have a new mission:

About 2 weeks ago I got the Snow-Skate-Board SnoGlide by Sno22. Sno22 is a new german brand. They had the vision to have fun in winter also when there is not so much snow. The SnoGlide is a mix between a skateboard and a snowboard. I asked Sno22 for a board to test it with a kite. They also would like to know if that works, so they kindly support me with that board. The last days it was snowing non-stop. Also the wind is blowing again. So the mission is going to kick off!

Tomorrow I’ll have my first snowkite-skate-session. My cams are charged, so if it works there’ll be a nice video of that mission soon.

Second Hand Update

Posted: January 17th, 2010 - No Comments.

Because I’ll get my new Flexifoil stuff soon, I’m selling my last 2 Kitefactory Thunderbirds on eBay. A 10m and an 8m. Of course there is also a 4-Line-Control-Bar with 22m lines. So if you are looking into that stuff, you can check eBay HERE.

If you need an english version of that texts on eBay, you can ask me for that for sure.

Yesterday I had a good session together with Tobi and Stefan. We were lit on our 8m and 9m  and had some good waves and clean flatwater. It would have been nice without the ice.

Icy Session

Posted: January 14th, 2010 - No Comments.

I was out again after 3 weeks of learning for exams and too cold weather. Next week I got 3 more exams, but I couldn’t sit at home when there was wind outside. Of course it was the warmest day of the week (-1°C). A friend of mine, Niklas, came to the beach, too. He filmed a bit, so we have to see if there is some good footage. I was out there with 2 shirts and a fleece under my drysuit, so I wasn’t fast in my movements. That leaded to some nice “not-catch-the-bar-again-crashes”. But better “warm” crashes than a really really cold session.

I took this pic right before my session, the dark-grey color in the water in front of the snow was super deep crushed ice. It was difficult to ride through it to get into the real water. The temperatur of the water is between 0 and -2°C. Hopefully the spring will come soon!

New Obstacle: The Kicker

Posted: January 1st, 2010 - 2 Comments.

After X-mas Stefan Permien spent 2 days in St. Peter-Ording. We built this huge kicker out of plastic, wood and iron. We focused on light weight and much stability. So it wasn’t easy and a lot of work.

Now we are hoping for an early spring, because it would take long to put the obstacle into the water and take it out after the session. In the moment it is too cold to do such a project. After a 2 hours session you are so weak that you couldn’t carry a kicker from the beach. We got temperatures about 0°C and it’s snowing or raining every week.

Maybe in March or April, when the weather is getting better and better we will present you the first action pictures and a nice video. I started editing the video with footage of us building the kicker. The plan is to produce The Game 2 with nice footage of the kicker.

Stay tuned…

New Year – New Sponsor

Posted: January 1st, 2010 - No Comments.

Happy new year every one!

First of all I want to thank my last year sponsor Kitefactory for the great support. We had a nice and successful season 2009.

Now I changed my kitesponsor to Flexifoil and I’m happy to become part of their german kitesurf team!

My other sponsors are the same in this year:
Brunotti – boards and clothing
NPX – wetsuits and harnesses
Triggernaut – sunglasses and accessoires
Boost-Kiteboarding – onlineshop

There is a lot of cool stuff planned for this year. I’ll keep you updated.

The New Triggernaut Product Brochure Is Out Now

Posted: December 21st, 2009 - No Comments.

My sponsor for great sun- and sportsglasses and accessoires Triggernaut has published the new 2010 Product Brochure. It’s very colorful and full of pictures. That’s the style I like! Have a look on the new sunglasses and the nice pictures of the whole team. You can see me several times.