KTE Poland Last Days

End of this rainy KTE here in Poland … 5 days of rain , cold weather , and drunk polish guys lol … Yesterday was the sumum on the each with 50 hooligans totally drunks screaming on the beach ( there was a football match in Swinjoucie). The party was also funny with figthing . i love Poland … MDr

No matter , i managed to let my directs concurents behind me on the 6 races we did .

So i’m finishing this Kite Tour Europe Racing with a 7 th place on the overall ranking . I’m happy .

KTE Poland Day 2 & 3

What a nice country !!! I love Poland . Fuck stop joking .. It’s was one more hugly day here in Swinjoucie with dark weather , a lot of rain and a fucking gusty bad wind . What a bad feeling after almost two months traveling in Africa .

I woke up this morning with the noise of strong rain on my van and went to the beach . The freestyle was on and they finished the single élimination . Just after we went on 4 races , really funny , but really shorts… So no way for any mistakes … and i did a lot of mistakes lol … Using my race board after 2 months off was like , you know , skiing after one years off . I crashed a lot , made bad tactical choice, chosse the bad kite … to resume i was too bad. I don’t know exactly my ranking for the moment but i know that i have to do better tomorrow

This first day was a bit different than everybody expected… The forecasts seemed really good but in fact in was really bad for Kitesurfing. Offshore gusty wind ( from 0 knots to 30 knots) , rain etc …

he organisation tried to do the freestyle single elimination … they managed to do two rounds for the guys . Even if it was so hugly ( guys were really unpowered most of the time) it’s a good thing tht they managed it ,beacuase finally forecasts are not so good for next days …

Today, we’ll probably have racing … I’m crossing my finger … I’m actually 8th in overall , and i have chances to reach the 5 or 6 position in the European ranking if we run some courses …

YOURMOOD KITECUP

The event will be launch for 2 windy days between the 6th oktober and 7th november 2010 ;about 500m far from the beach will stay a big yacht called the flagship, insinde will stay the judges, photographers and spectators.

Riders will do them heats downwind of the flagship following the shedules.
Prizemoney will be 3000€, every riders whom will make a heat will receive a nice prize
Some smallers boats will be for photographers, videomakers and rescue.
The northwind has very sure forecast,  everbody registrered will be “called” 3-4 days before the launch of the kitecup, please,  be sure to be registrered as rider, photographers nor spectator .

PKRA Tenerife Day 4

Strong wind and big waves today for the PKRA waves. What a competition ‘s day !!!

I pass 2nd after Sky Solbach in the Trial , and riched the main event .At this moment the wind average was up to 50 knots !!!

For the main event it was really strong for my 6m kite when i went on the first heat against Youri ZOOn and Jean Marcos Riveras, and i didn’t managed to do well in this heat . The waves were really big at this moment, and it was impossible to stay in it because of the Side on shore wind … The otherguys were overpowered too in 5 m !!!

In the next heat i was against my team mate , Ariel Corniel . The wind was less strong, and waves really nice .But unfortunatelly i made a mistake when i went in water , and broke a fins on the reef, just before the red flag !!! Fuck . I did all theheat with 2 fins , slippered on the back on each turn . Duringthis time ariel hadone good wave and passed on next heat ..

I’m 17 th and it will be my final results in Tenerife . A bit disappointed but no matter , i will work hard for Australia or next year events..

PKRA Tenerife days 2 and 3
Extreme strong wind and no waves here in El Medano … It blows up to 40 knots all day long today , and the waves didn’t manage to find thereway to the beach … Even if it’s so windy it’s really there … This windy comes direct form Africa and it ‘s so hot … It seems like a big hairdryer blowing on El Medano .

It’s not easy to sleep , so we have parties in the city .

Tomorrow same forecast … So will try to start at 9 am beforethe wind reachs 40 knots

PKRA Waves Tenerife Day 1

More than 27 mens for the Wave Competition here in Tenerife … We have now to wait for wind and waves to start a trial dingle elimination ( single and double elimination in the same time)…1 guys in this trial for 12 seat in the main event.

Action is planed for Thursday … I’m with Sky Solbach and a german guy in the first heat .

http://www.prokitetour.com/news.php?id=139

KTE Silvaplana

Back from Switzerland , where we had lot of fun playing volley ball, walking in mountains, watching football with all our friends from Netherlandsand Germany..

For the Kitesurf competition it wasn’t so fun … Wind was really difficult to catch , and weather changed every hours … In theses conditions , KTE ‘s organisation had some problems , and made some mistakes and took bad choice … For example , wah had 4 hours of wind on friday and when they finished Single elimination in frestyle , they decided to continue with the second , instead of switch to the race … Then they decided to not compete on the Saturday when winds arrived at 6 Pm !!! ? to late ?!!! Why was it possible to wake up at 5am in Netherlands to compete , and impossible to compete at 6 pm in switzerland ????
The last chance was on Sunday , but at the end of the competition, there was still no wind … Most of the riders had already packed theirs stuffs , when the organisation try to avoid the worst …They started a race under the storm at 3 o clock , one hour after the official end of the competition his day it was possibleto finish later !!? … 7 th guys finished the course . Many of others were not on the water , or did’nt manage to finish … For my part i was already in the car , on my way to Paris to take my plane for Tanzania … i finished 8th without going in water … So bad

Discard for KTE Sylt this week … I was suppose to go there , but i’m still without good Kites for light wind … My biggest kite is my unpowerfull Bandit 3 13m2. Impossible to do something if there is less than 16 knots  … So when i had a look on the forecast , i decided to use my discard .

Hope to have good news before Switzerland next week

Two Days before KTE Sylt

Here are the
Press book and Riders list

End of the KBO with no wind … Waiting for next stop . Hope it will be as great as in Austria .

NOORDJWIK Beach

4 races today in light wind , which was very very light for me with my Bandit 3 13m2 ( not much powerfull than a 11) !!!! 15 meters exists on paper but not in real life … Fuck !!!!!!!

I’m actually 14 th and the forecast are worst for tomorrow … Yes !!!!!!!!

3 days before Next Event on The Kitesurf Tour Europe … Hope to find some strong wind there to avoid racing with 40 meters line and 16 to 19 m2 kites… What a bad last journey for me in podersdorf with my “little 13M2″

Bruno Sroka and Julien Kerneur will be there this time to show that French racers are on the top !!! Targeting 3 frenchs in top 5.

The event site is here

http://kiteboardopen.com/