Now I’m back in St. Peter-Ording. Normally it was planned to go to Dornumersiel to a Kite-Landboard and Buggy Event to meet my sponsor Flexifoil. Sadly my car is broken and I can’t go there. Now I have to stay here for the next days, but the wind will come back on wednesday.

Early on monday morning Stefan Permien and I went off to the north of denmark. There was the only wind forecasted for northern europe and we had to get on the water, so we started to this trip. Arrived there at noon, we had a great 5 hours session in super flat water. I was on 11 and 9 and trained on my style. The last hour I always did the same trick, I wanted to keep the kite low as possible and get higher and higher. That’s training and it was fun! The 9m Hadlow Pro is the best kite to train that way, because it’s fast and has a great release. In the evening we went to Klitmoller. It’s a well known wave spot for windsurfers. I took my 9m again, but this time my new wave board. The waves were nice. The height was between chest and head, easy to get some turns. Next day we went to some different spots and shot some pics, especially for my sponsor Triggernaut. Because Stefan was on 14 and my biggest one is 11, I was well underpowered, but it was sunny and warm. Now I’m back to recharge my energy. The last days were good training for the upcoming and last tourstop of this year of the german championchips. At the moment I’m on the 8th overall. Let’s go to get a bit higher in the ranking next weekend.

Last week I spend most of the time in St. Peter-Ording. I wanted to train some new moves, and of course I got a new one. But it was windier than expected and it was all about looping the kite. Together with some mates we pushed each other and I think I had one of the highest loops with the longest travel I ever had. That was good training for the Stormriders Cup which I’m signed in. It will start when the next big storm hits the baltic sea at a weekend the next time. Really looking forward to it and finally testing my 5.5 Flexifoil Hadlow Pro!

Soon I will change the design of my page a little bit, so don’t worry if it looks a bit damaged while working on it.

On saturday I took the Kite Wave Board of my Sponsor Brunotti to do a downwinder in the waves. We had bad luck with the wind because it dropped in the middle of the trip and we had to wait for a while to continue. I used the 5’5″ Board and it has been awesome. As I got back to the event I ordered one. You’ll see me on a waveboard in the future when the conditions are suitable for that. Maybe I will do a trip to denmark in fall to get some cleaner waves than at home.

The next three weeks I will be full on with training freestyle every windy day for the next and last tourstop of the german tour. After that I’m waiting for some strong winds for the stormriders cup I’m registered to and I will keep on filming and editing for my next video. Now have a look on some pics of the downwinder which I took with the Pentax cam I borrowed at the event.

Yesterday was the Check-In in St. Peter-Ording for one of the biggest events in kiteboarding. The Tourstop of the PKRA Worldtour is back in Germany. I signed in for Freestyle. Because of around 60 competitors in the men freestyle discipline there was a long time for trials. 34 riders were competing against each other to get one of the last 16 free places for the main event.

In the first round I was 2nd out of 4, but only the 1st one went to the main event. In the second round, the last chance to get to the main event, I was 1st out of 3. Super happy that I reached that at a worldcup. Let’s see what’s gonna happen the next days.

I can’t complain about the last days. On saturday I had my last exam before the long break for summer and today I got the result that I passed all of them. Happy about that I had some good sessions now. Yesterday the wind was too light, so we went to the cable. I like to train new grabs off the kicker. Today the wind picked up so much, that I was totally powered on my 9. Unluckily I was so tired of wakeboarding, that I did less unhooked stuff and instead I did some big airs, kiteloops and much other fun stuff. My girlfriend caught all that nonsense on tape for the next video and of corse that pic above.

Last weekend it was super hot here in northern Germany. The temperatures climbed straight over 30°C and a nice and warm wind was blowing from the south-east. So I decided to get up really early in the morning to study and at noon, when the thermal winds kicked in, I was on my way to my favorite spot in denmark, where the water is flat like in your bathtub. It was amazing to go riding only in boardshorts. Later on I used a lycra too, because I didn’t wanna get a sunburn. On saturday it started with a well powered session on the 11m and ended nice on the 9m. That conditions motivated me a lot, I landed a new move and tried to get another one. Denise took some pictures that day, which I wanna show you right now!

At university the semester is going to end soon, so there isn’t much time until the exams. But the good thing on studying is that you can learn everywhere. So I went to my homespot in St. Peter-Ording on friday.  That day it was super windy and I used my 7m full on. The forecast didn’t look like that, so I left my brand new 5.5m at home. This would have been the day to give it a go. On saturday I used my 9m first, but then decided to take the 7m again. I really like the small kite because training new tricks is easier for me with that one. For today the forecast looked like light powered on 11m, but as I arrived at the beach I took my 9m again and it was fine for two hours. My girlfriend captured some tricks for my planed video which I’m going to release in the end of august.

Last days I was in Quiberon. That’s a small island in the west of France. There was a teammeeting of my kitesponsor Flexifoil. It was a long journey to get there. My girlfriend and me changed driving the car. After 18 hours we arrived at the camping side. The place was great. We had water nearly all around our camping side at high tide.

Unluckily the weather wasn’t fine every day, but when the sun was out it was warm and the water had a nice color. Also the wind wasn’t our friend that days but in the end I can score 3 sessions. One of that was pretty good. The wind started while we were beginning the BBQ. I went on the water on my 11m Hadlow Pro. I was underpowered, but that was okay because it felt so good to kite with a short wetsuit in perfect flat water and sunny weather.

It was a cool but short trip which I enjoyed very much. I met a part of the Flexifoil Team and discovered some new spots.

On friday I met with Stefan Permien to session our kicker which we build last christmas. Now it was time to test it on a kite. The forecast looked quite good. Sunny and 15 to 20 knots. At the beach it was much more, so that I was full powered on my 7m. Not the easiest conditions to test a new obstacle, but I got better and better. After a few pretty hard crashes in the beginning I was happy later when I could do my tricks fully controlled.

It was a nice session till it was completely dark. Not easy to carry a huge kicker out of the water and all the way up to the trailer.