Sir Richard Branson har planer om, at krydse den Engelske kanal i 2012 i samarbejde med Flexifoil.

Sir Richard Branson is preparing to kitesurf the English Channel this year with Flexifoil. Kitesurfing is one of Sir Richard’s favourite sports and we look forward to setting some new world records with him in 2012.

Flexifoil International are the existing Guinness World Record holder for the fastest crossing of the English Channel which took place on 17th September 1999. The record stands at 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Watch this space!

As most of the people who practice any kind of extreme sport you always have the possibility of getting injured and its part of the game, you gotta pay to play. Two weeks ago I came back from France and Tarifa was spoiling us with perfect winds, I kited everyday together with some of the Top PKRA riders and feeling really confortable with my riding landing all my doubles again and doing some more powered tricks till one day in the lagoon while filming for a new movie I broke my meniscus and stretched some of the ligaments in my Knee, I first didn’t really know what was going on but then I realized something went wrong… Alvaro and Ewan, who were at the lagoon filming came to help me and we went straight to the hospital, ones we arrived the doctor said that i only had my ACL a bit stretched and that it was gonna be OK, i already had some bad experiences at the hospital of Tarifa so me and my mom decided to see a specialist that would do a Scan and really see what was going on. When we finally had the results it was a bit worse than what we thought, my meniscus was completely squashed and some of my ligaments were stretched, he directly said that I needed an Operation for it not to hurt anymore because a meniscus can’t really get repaired and they would have to remove some of it.
Now I am back from the surgery, 6 weeks no kiting, that really sucks but I will be back stronger than ever!
Peace!

Hvis du går i tanker om at købe nyt udstyr synes jeg at det er værd at overveje den nye Hadlow ID fra Flexifoil som er seneste skud på stammen og resultat af samarbejdet mellem Aaron Hadlow(5x WC) og Flexifoil.

Jeg har sejlet den en måned under alle forhold i Cape Town og den performer rigtig godt både til freestyle/freeride og bølger.

Herhjemme er det en oplagt kite til de forhold vi sejler under og jeg bliver mere og mere glad for kiten hver gang jeg er ude og sejle med den.

Den kan selvfølgelig alt det en kite i det segment skal kunne men der hvor jeg synes kiten adskiller sig væsentlig fra andre er dens “fun factor”. Den er bare sjov at flyve med fra første færd!

Men prøv selv!

Oplagt mulighed er søndag d. 29.april i Strandparken hvor KiteDanmark afholder demodag.

Tryk på billedet for at gå til magazin.

god fornøjelse – http://www.iksurfmag.com/issue32/?Cover

Du SKAL sætte kryds i kalenderen ud for følgende 3 lørdage:

12.05.12 – Holbæk – Holbæk Surf & Kite

09.06.12 – Aarhus – Turbinehallen & Surfline

01.09.12 – Lynæs – KITEpro

Der vil være sandwich, drikkelse og andet godt i løbet af dagene, masser af aktivitet på strandene og som altid slutter dagene med vanvittigt flotte præmier fra Cabrinha, NPX, WileyX, NeilPryde, Holbæk Surf & Kite, Surfline og Nautic Surf & Ski.

Alle uanset niveau og udstyr vil få en uforglemmelig oplevelse med Cabrinha Kite Race. Der sejles i 2 discipliner – twintip og directonal. Reglerne er simple og konkurrencen hamrendes sjov. (BEMÆRK; i twintip-klassen må der i år ikke sejles med en finnestørrelse over 6cm).

Du kan læse meget mere om de enkelte arrangementer, om reglerne og om alle de sjove stunder vi havde i 2011 på facebook.com/cabrinhakiterace.

Tilmeld dig allerede nu til det først arrangement i Holbæk på facebook-side (se under ”tilmelding”) eller på tråden her på ks.dk. Din tilmelding er som altid uforpligtende, men hjælper os med at planlægge frokost m.m.

Vi glæder os HELT VILDT til endnu en forrygende sæson med Cabrinha Kite Race.

Kærlig hilsen

Team CKR

The ISAF kiteboarding format trials wrapped up last Sunday in Santander, Spain, which will be host to the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championship. The original task – finding a racing and event format that shows kiteboarding at its best – was completed quickly with a great outcome that will give the sport another boost. The new format is made for fleets of any size, but adds spectacular elements and a medal race series in elimination, which will add all the drama that other sports have – this is the way how heroes are made.
The even more important task – to showcase that kiteboarding is mature and ready for the 2016 games – was also handled with bravery. The ISAF evaluation panel as well as ISAF president Goran Petersson and vice president Teresa Lara were impressed by performance and professionalism – and well noticed the excitement that kiteboarding is able to create to bring a completely new audience into the sailing family. This is especially true for all the kids in the emerging nations – kiteboarding equipment is the most affordable one of all Olympic classes equipment, it can be bought in every shop on every beach in the world, and it does not require expensive infrastructure, neither harbors nor in terms of travelling as it can be taken as normal luggage on any plane.

The ISAF equipment committee representatives had a detailed look at the equipment and class rules – many boards were measured and weighted, and it was definately a surprise that such high performance can be achieved with equipment that has a total weight of slightly more than 10 kilogram – ready to sail, including board, kite, fins, bars, and wetsuit.

The event kicked off with discussions about the formats to evaluate – luckily there was not wind on the first day. A lot ideas were exchanged and finally a list of 7 formats agreed to be tested, varying from standard windward/leeward course racing to downwind slaloms with jumps like in supercross.
The 18 sailors from 10 nations and 4 continents read like the who is who of the international racing scene: course racing world champion Johnny Heineken, Slalom World Champion Damien Leroy, World Champion Steph Bridge, European Champion Katja Roose were accompanied by many national champions. And everybody more than keen to showcase our sport – this time not to win a regatta, but to win all of us some medals for Rio de Janeiro.
With sunshine and warm temperatures the wind arrived on the second day then – just enough to get the fleet out in 6-8 knots to complete the formats that are well known – course racing on a windward/leeward and slalom. This order was chosen to give ISAF a baseline on what sailing knows about – racing around marks. The upcoming days were planned to head over to new formats that have never been run before and see if there is something better or if it is better to stick what we have.

Some of the sailors were equipped with GPS devices to keep record of the upwind and downwind speeds, and it turned out that the racing equipment goes upwind with app. 15 knots and downwind with app. 25 knots – in 6-8 knots windspeed this means four times the speed of the wind and is a performance formerly known only by multi-million-dollar Americas Cup yachts.
Day 3 kicked of with more wind and a new format called enduro – a short upwind leg and a downwind slalom with a jump on the way to the finish line. This format gave quite some excitement, but was missing some tactical options, however the spectators on the beach appreciated the jumping and that it is easy to follow who is leading.

The wind constantly increased for the next formats to be run, and the race committee had a hard time to change all the marks in record braking time while keeping track of the wind speeds, course lengths and angles. The next format to be tested was a box course – pretty much standard course racing but with two short reaching legs to make it easier understandable and also test additional (speed) skills.
This was a good one, up to the next: windward/leeward with two gates. Tactically challenging, but hard to understand for spectators as the fleet completely separates and it is impossible to tell who is in the lead. Sailing wise great, but not good for spectators.
The biggest surprise at this stage – the wind had picked up to 18 knots and the water was getting rough – was that all sailors still were on the same equipment than when they came out in the morning in 6 knots. After all the discussions about the class rules and the limitation to maximum 3 kites this proved to be unneccessary – everybody felt comfortable on the big kites and it looked like the sailors can hold on to one kite for the full wind range of the Olympic sailing competition.

Around 1600 in the afternoon – with still 16-18 knots on the course and 1-1.5m rolling swell – the last format on the list was tested. A windward/leeward double gate course, but with a reaching start at the top and run in heats of six sailors. The starts were exciting, if sailors are fighting for the best line with board speeds of 30 knots, the downwind and upwind parts were tactical with a lot of position changes, and the final reach produced quite some photofinishes. For those that have seen the Americas Cup World Series Course – this is pretty much what it is. The same excitement, but for a fraction of the costs.

The additional thrill of this course that it would be run in elimination series – instead of a medal race, a series of heats with the top 16 would be held, with the last 2 eliminated after each heat, until the final four heat – the winner takes gold, the last one gets only a sorry. Finally in sailing, a story can be told with all the excitement and drama that other sports have, this is the way to build heroes.

The remaining two days were meant to finetune the courses and prepare the reports, however on day 4 the breeze kicked in at late afternoon and some racers headed out from the harbor to the race courses of the multihulls and skiffs to battle them – well appreciated by the sailors of the other classes to showcase different kinds of high performance sailing.
The final outcome of the evaluation trials is to hold fleet racing on a new box slalom course, adding equipment handling skills to the required tactical sailing plus having reaching legs for better spectator understanding, and a short track course for the new medal race series, with the winner taking it all.

In the later evening and on Sunday the trials finally came to an end – with another discussion between the ISAF evaluation panel and the sailors how to progress from here to get kiteboarding into the Olympic Games 2016.

The options on the table are:
- windsurfing only
- kiteboarding only
- team events of both sports

Lets hope ISAF is taking a wise decision in the interest of the sport – the International Olympic Committee is watching us, and we hope that sailing got the message to bring new and young sailors into the sport, especially from emerging nations. The best to do so is surely through kiteboarding. After this week in Santander no one has a doubt about that.

Ud over det har vi også den beachvolley bane som vi købte sidste år, så der er noget at lave i tilfældet af at vinden skulle udeblive i en periode.

Tilbage til teltene.

Vi har valgt at sælge plads på disse 3 telte, eller nærmer 2, for det ene er helt sikkert solgt til en sponsor. Vi tilbyder for 5000 kr. at en sponsor kan få logoer på et telt, som udgangspunkt er det med 4 logoer, logoerne bliver oppe omkring 31×100 cm

Det er en super mulighed for at få en god reklamesøjle, som bliver set af rigtigt mange.

Hvis man ikke kender til teltet, kan man se noget at et på billedet herunder

Hvis du er blevet interesseret i at høre mere omkring teltene, kan jeg kontaktes på følgende:

Rasmus Salomon

Rasmussalomon@gmail.com

22 78 80 33

PS. Er der andre derude som kunne tænkte sig at sponsere kitetour, men præmier eller andet, så må I også meget gerne kontakte os.

Vil lige som en afsluttende bemærkning sige, at sæt kryds i kalenderen den 4. – 6. maj til første stævne. For stævnet på Als i år, bliver noget man ikke vil gå glip af… Mere om det senere.

Hilsen

Rasmus Salomon