Vanmorgen om 10:00 uur kwamen Jan Durk de Haan en Martijn Helmus bij Antix Sports Kiteboarding langs in Leeuwarden. Er werden verschillende vragen gesteld over de regulering m.b.t kitesurf lessen op Kornwerderzand (Friesland). Klik op deze link voor meer info en het geluids fragment. Vanmiddag om 13.30 uur hadden wij een afspraak op Kornwerderzand met de film [...]

Download The Front Mobe to Blind is a Front Roll with a back side Handle Pass landed Blind. To land this trick you need to be fast, know how to do a Front Mobe and your Blind landings need to be safe. You need some time in the air, in the beginning you can put your kite [...]

Maandag 9 augustus stond er een flink artikel in het Dagblad van het Noorden over het kitesurfen. Jimmy Meijer (instructeur Antix Sports Kiteboarding School) en ik werden telefonisch geïnterviewd en daaruit is dit artikel gekomen.

The third issue of Kitesurfmagazine came out with a couple of shots of me in it. Some shots are from the Belgium event Kites On Fire in Oostende where I got third. The other shot is made by Ydwer.com the night before Friends of Friestyle an event in the north of The Netherlands. We went [...]

Download The Front Mobe is a Front Roll with a back side Handle Pass landed heel side. To complete the whole rotation is what is making this move difficult, because if you land toe side you are doing a Hasselhoff. Before you start practicing this trick it is important that you can do a steady Front Roll and [...]

Download The Hasselhoff is a Front Roll with a back side Handle Pass landed toe side, for most of the riders the step before the Front Mobe. It is important that you can do a steady Front Roll and know how to do the standard Handle Pass. Position your kite at an angle of 45 degrees and make [...]

After I came back from Tarifa in the beginning of the year Disney XD contacted me for an interview. Disney XD Magazine is a magazine for young boys and girls with bravados, every issue they have a “spectaculair” sport in the spot light. I’m on the cover of issue 8 and in the Disney XD Magazine [...]

Afgelopen mei was het weer raak, goede harde wind en af en toe een zonnetje. Ydwer van der Heide stond klaar met z’n camera en heeft een hele mooie foto van mij gemaakt. Zie het resultaat hieronder. Access Kiteboard Magazine — Issue # 3 2010 Workum

Download The Slim Chance is for most people the easiest powered Handle Pass. You can break the Slim Chance down in four steps; Front Roll take off – 180 degrees rotation – straight up Handle Pass – landing. It is important that you have all the movements print in your head before you start practicing, this [...]

I competed in the PKRA World Tour in Germany last month, but I forgot to write a report.

The St Peter Ording PKRA event is one of (or the) biggest kiteboarding events in the world, and lasts for 9 days. This insures the riders of windy conditions. This year too, we had good winds in the competition. I had to prequalify myself for the event, and had some trouble in the first heat. I was super overpowered on my 12 because the wind suddenly increased to 25 knots in my heat. I did not land any tricks, I just flew around a bit. I changed kites in the last minute, and did a mega loop on my 8 just outside the heat time.. So I did not make it, and I had to try again in the next heat, last chance. This heat went normal, I landed all of my tricks and won the heat with ease.

In the main event I met Brazilian Neto, who I beat in not a perfect heat. I butt-checked a switch lowmobe, I think this gave me the advantage. In the next round I met Alex Pastor, and I had a okay heat but he was better. He eventually won the event.
In the double elimination I met fellow Dutchmen Johnno Scholte, I beat him with better variety and power. In the next round I met Mario Rodwald, and I totally screwed up my heat. I only landed a NIS and a blind judge, and offcourse I was super pissed off with myself after the heat. Obviously I lost. Later that day we started the Board off/Big air competition, I took out my 8.5m Kaiman for extra airtime! I did some nice boardoffs, it was super much fun to ride for only big air boardoffs! I managed to win 1 round, but then I lost. I stayed on the water for a while, because it was so much fun to train boardoffs

My final result in the Freestyle competition was 13th, which is the same position as last year. I hope my next event in Poland (EKT) goes better, I have been training a lot lately so I think it will.