Kitecompetition El Glouna

Kitecontest El Gouna 09

One day before the competition started i got a call from a good friend in el gouna,,
he was like: hey dude tmr is gonna be  a freestyle competition, come and join!

Yeah so the next morning i went to el gouna, signed in, for freestyle and race, half an hour later i was already in the game, the wind was pretty strong and as it was a  jamsession it´s been pretty dangerous as well.
I did stick some nice hp´s, pretty powered on my 7m/2 with the kite really low.
In the end i made it into the finals.
Final round was supposed to be later in that day, around 5pm, but then when we started the wind dropped and the judges decided to continue the freestyle finals the next day.
What a pity for me, i did feel so fit this day.

Anyway the next day we started early in the morning, 9 am. skippersmeeting,
then they decided to do the race before freestlyle,, anyway i joined the race as well.
Some guys were fully equiped with race stuff, like raceboards, spezial trimmed kites and so on.
I was on my 12m/2 Combat GT and my Tantrum which i use for freestlyle.
Was a nice race were i got 2nd!
Right after the race, we were starting the final heat-freestyle,
unfortunatly i didn´t pump up every kite before, and the wind picked up.
i couldn´t change my kite, and did ride it in 25 knots, where i was ways to overpowered to do any unhooked tricks, I got the 4th place.
At least i could manage to boost a huge L3 with grab., which was pretty scary

Yo a few days later i went for pricegivings, just quickly cause i had to hurry to the airport, to fly back home, where i am now.
A bit a pity that i couldn´t join the party, guess it was amazing.
But next time for sure.

Now i ll sort some things out at home, then i´m off to italy for about 2 weeks,
kitesurfing at lake como, where i´ll try to get some good pics, with a really good photographer, called double M so MM for www.michaelmarte.at.
check it out then