From this week on I'll change my way and my style of riding because I'll be riding on the 2014 brand new kite, the North Dice! I'll explain you a bit my new gear and why I have changed my gear's brand. Hope that if everything is alright I'll stay on this brand a few years.
During the year I've been riding I've been focused on tricks, airs and waves trying like this to improve my skills as an allround rider. This and the help of some friends has brought me to choose this brand that hopefully will make me progress a lot and make new and amazing tricks. From now on I'll ride on:
The Dice:
North's most versatile kite with a huge windrange and a lot of capabilities in freestyle and waves. It's construction for 2014 features the adaptive tip which is the north's system to help you to ride your kite in your perfect setting. The dice includes 2 settings:
-The hard setting: I use this setting to give more power to my tricks and having an optimum slack for having smooth and stable landings. It also has more lift and more bar pressure which is good for freeride in general.
-The soft setting: I have used this setting always I have wanted to go for a wave riding session because it Improves kite drift and travel while it's depowered. It makes the bar feel smoother and the kite be more reactive. It has not as much lift but it lets you have comfortable rides with gusty and strong winds.
The Gambler:
This is the hardest board in the whole range, for 2014 it features teh Quattro V channel what helps you to have a more explossive pop out of the water or for getting a bit more grip on high winds. For this year the base comes reinforced for going to the cable park or even for riding finless on kickers and rails. The gambler has been my choice because it's the bes board for an allround riding, it can be ridden on flat water or in choppy conditions just by changing the finsizes (3.5, 2.5 or finless).
Probably most of the people who don't know anything about astronomics don't know why this pic is special and unforgettable for the ones who have seen it using the telescope. The picture I've chosen is the 2014J supernove in M82, the "cigar" galaxy.
As you've seen there is a lightpoint close to the galaxy's center. You'll problaly think that this pic is awful or that it has no sense to put it here. You'll also think that it tis a star, but I'll tell you that it isn't, it WAS. It's so amazing to see how the explosion enlights more than the whole M82. This explosion will probably become a superhuge blackhole in a few millions of years that will make the galaxy disappear. Well, stars and objects won't disappear, the things that are going to disappear are photons, the subatomic particles that create the light. This has been very important for astrophysics. We think that is the only huge supernova that will be seen this generation (25 years).
For me this photo is so striking because when I see this I think about how huge is the universe nd how small we are. The milky way is nothing compared to M82. The milky way has a yellow light spectrum, what means that most of the galaxy is made of medium or small size stars with lifes of 4000 milions of years of life remaining, and then we see M82 with its blue light, what mens that is made of superultramegahuge stars of sizes we would never imagine and light intensitys that would burn the most resistable elements of our earth. For me is so romantic to see the night's landscape so that's all what this pic inspires me.
I leave my audio boo here:
https://audioboo.fm/boos/2227236-describing-a-pic
We took off on tuesday 22nd March above more or less 1PM and we landed at 3:30PM. After that a kind bus driver brought us to the hostel that was the place where we lived during our long trip. When we got into the hostel we rested there for more or less half an hour before beggining walking to the closest bus stop. Once there we caught the 100E bus to go to the Brandenburgen Tor stop, that was were we saw the Brandenburg's door and most of us visited Dunkin' Doughnuts for the first time. Some of us saw the Reichstag as well, It was SO big!
After taking some pics we went to the books burn dedicated monument by foot. When we had already taken a few pics of it, we left and we went to Maredo's (was the f****ng restaurant were we had to eat because it was compulsory).
At night everything was very funny, we did lots of jokes to our friends and to the other rooms!
The organising of the days was almost the same one but with different monuments on each day.
We saw: The Sachsenhaussen Field, The TV tower, The Kaiser Wilhem church, The Berliner Zoo, The Wall and lots of things!!
Summarizing, I had a really great time that I'll never forget! So, hope you all can visit Berlin once in your life!
Two people with a dark past came on tuesday for making us understand what were the nazi ideas like. They told us that jew people were not the only ones who suffered in the Hitler times. Spain was a very hostile place on 1939. The war had just ended and the republican politicians were bannished from Spain. General and "caudillo" by that time Francisco Franco told Hitler that there were no Spanish people out from Spain. So, Hitler caught as many republicans as he could and made them be treated like jews. Their fathers left Spain on 1939 and went to France. Unluckily France had just been invaded by Hitler's troops and unluckily as well they were caught and brought to the Marthaussën. One of those man was very weak for the hunger and the cold so he went directly to the gas chamber. The other one was brutally murdered a year after by a gasoil injection directly to the heart. They told us what they knew about the life in Marthausën. Nazi's were (with no pardon) a group of sons of b**ches. They threatened them constantly and they governed them with the horror and the pain. They chose random people diarily to kill them by different ways. All of that killing ways were brutal and they involved a lot of pain. The field was built for having 3000 people inside it, and it was occuped for 15000 people. Nazis didn't left the write to their families until 1943, 2 years before the end of all that shit. One of the two people who came had the first letter that his father wrote them before going to the field, when he was still in prison. He tried to read it but he couldn't, there were so many feelings on that fragile piece of paper, too much stories, too much interrogants,.... He could just read the last sentence that was the only thing he has always been thinking about for the last 60 years, the last sentence was "I'm afraid they're going to bring us to somewhere, but I can't explain it to you, otherwise I wouldn't be able to send this letter". His mother thought the worst, and unfortunately she probably guessed. I asked them what did they feel the first time they went to Marthaussën field, and they answered that the first thing that came to their heads was "my father stepped this stairs, he was burned in here and murdered in there...". Their eyes were wet while they pronnounced those words, they were very corageous to share that with us. After that dy, they visited the field every year, and they made a monument for the thousands of Spanish people that had been murdered in there. They have never had any suport from the government, and they have never complained about nothing. The only politicians that did something for them were Jordi Pujol, who went there twice with her wife, and Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who went there once as well. There are two flgs in the monument: the republican one and the normal one. They say that if people who dead there were republicans their souls ight lie under their flags.
1.SETTING: The film takes place in Verona Beach while the book takes it in Verona City. There are lots of modern settings in the film like the change between swords and guns. They wear beach clothes instead of armors and they have a more serious fight, because gun's wounds are somtimes worse than sword's ones.
2.IMAGERY: The film is very nice in this sense because it plays with the metaphors like begginings with sunrises or ends with nights, etc. The Verona city is like a very wide street with Montagues in a side and Capulets in the other One. The metaphor in here is that the Redemptor Jesuschrist appears in the middle of both buildings.
3.LANGUAGE: Most of the characters talk on verse because it's more romantic, and they make the public feel a bit confused sometimes!! hahahaha!
4.THE FANCY DRESS PARTY: Well what can I say? Romeo is the prince of an angel! I think that that's all folks!
5.ELEMENTS: The new version features cars instead of horses, cannabis instead of god, and guns instead of swords! It's a very rare way to do the think but it's OK in my opinion don't you think?
Well, today I'll explain you what kind of kite gear do I use and why:
AS A KITE:
I ride on the airush razor because of its explosive power and it's hability for riding on light wind. This is a really nice kite for frestyling because of its close c-shape. The fact it is a c-shape is good for three things:
1.-It slacks after the trick letting you have a solid and soft landing making like this easier the tricks learning.
2.-It has 5 lines instead of 4 and it helps you to relaunch your kite faster, safer and easier.
3.-It's shape at maximum power pulls you up and let's you have more airtime for having the opportunity of landing more tricks.
AS A BOARD:
I use the livewire 135cm because although it is a bit more technical to ride it makes me develope all my habilities when rotating, landing huge jumps or just riding on gusty winds. I ride it on boots because I think it is the best way to ride it. My setting for this board is 30mm fins and lots of fun for the ride!
AS BOOTS:
I use the liquid force ultra ct because they're pretty warm and they help me to be cleaner when moving or landing new tricks. They are very nice for poppinc thanks to its hard flex in the front of the boot.
AS A WETSUIT:
I use the ion onyx because it is the most flexible wetsuit I've ever used and it's very warm as well. Its ventilation system makes your body use it's hot and sharing it with the coldest parts of your body, for example: If your chest is hotter than your legs, the hot gets into the legs by the ventilation system. This year, it includes the anti smell system that guarantees that although it's wet it doesn't smell. This year has won the award to the top selling wetsuit in the watersports market.
AS A HARNESS:
I use the ion apex because it's very soft and comfortable, it's thermomoulded scum let's your back adapt to it making it get closer to your body making it safer against vertebral injuries. It's very grateful when I ride on gusty winds like tramontana because it minimizes the risk of having some muscular problems. Its new system of non sliding makes it get adjusted to your body easier than other harness models.
My favorite kite team is Airush Kites. I like their team cause I think they have 4 of the best riders of the whole world:
Alex Pastor
Age: 23 Lives: Tarifa, Spain Kiting Since: 2003 Airush Since: 2010 Favourite discipline: Wakestyle/ Freestyle Kite: Razor Team Board: Livewire 140 Favourite spot: Tarifa and Cauipe Other Sponsors: MINI, Multipower Sportsfood, ION Best Result: 1st Pkra Fuerte, Italy, France and Morocco 2013 - 3x Vice World Champion What music do you like: Rock, hip hop, indie, reggae, electronic... What do you do when there is no wind: gym, watch tv, work, cook, hang out with family and friends...
The best rider in the world in this moment because of his performance in 2013 that made him get the world tittle. Although he won, he had two close and great rivals: Youri Zoon (who got injured in the 5th stop of the world tour) and Carlos Mario (who could only assist to the last stop of the tour because he hadn't got enough money to go to the rest of stops). Pastor rode better the whole year, he improved a lot from 2013 to 2014 getting like this the throne of kiteboarding. He rides on the Airush Razor as kite, and on the Airush livewire as board.
A video from him:
Bruna Kajiya
Age: 26 Lives: São Paulo, Brazil Kiting Since: 2002 Airush Since: 2012 Favourite discipline: Freestyle baby Kite: Airush Razor Board: Livewire 135 Favourite spot: Uruau, Brazil Other Sponsors: Red Bull, Mystic Best Result: 2009 World Champion, 2010, 2011 & 2012 Vice World Champion. What music do you like: Mainly chill music, right now I listen a lot to the Album “Into the Wild” by Eddie Vedder What do you do when there is no wind: Anything fun, but my first option is a good surf session.
Although she has won only just one world tittle, in my opinion she's ready to get another one this year. This young brazilian rider got in airush because Gisela Pulido (10x world champion) left the team on 2012. Airush needed another powerful and stylish rider, and Bruna was up to do that job. The first year was nice for Bruna, she ended up 2nd in the world championship, the next one she got second too but with better results. This year, she got injured in the 5th stop, like Youri Zoon, so she didn't finish competing last season. She rides on the airush Razor as kite and on the airush livewire as board.
A video from her:
Bas Koole
His name in the Dutch kiteboarding scene has resonated to the
point where Bas Koole has become a media powerhouse. Developing his
craft throughout the world, Bas gets the shots. He doesn’t stop after
the camera is put away. The 2010 and 2011 Dutch Champion is notorious
for being one of the riders to watch during the session.
Age: 27 Lives: Workum / Emmeloord Kiting Since: 2003 Airush Since: 2009 Favourite discipline: Freestyle Kite: Varial X Board: Livewire 140 Favourite spot: Cauipe / Workum Other Sponsors: Prolimit Best Result: Yearly cover on the Kiteworld and 2010 Dutch Freestyle Champion What music do you like: Rap / Indie / Club What do you do when there is no wind: Video editing and wake boarding
This rider is one of the most tehnical and more polifacetic riders of the Airush team, he is able to ride in all the conditions, he is able to do from big airs to freestyle to a PKRA level. Now he is a PKRA judge, and I think is the best place he could be at. People says that he is a good judge because he is not focused on powerful techniques at all, he still likes stylish riders as Aaron Hadlow or Alberto Rondina. He rides on two kinds of kites and two kinds of boards: his kites are the razor and the Varial X, and his boards are the livewire and the protoy.
A video from him:
Bear Karry
Born and bred in the heart of the surf culture capital of the
world. California based Bear Karry is no stranger to wind and waves.
Growing up as a surfer, Bear combines strapless freestyle surf and down
the line riding to present a well-rounded type of riding. Bear’s talent
allows him to try and land new tricks almost instantly.
Age: 22 Lives: Santa Barbara, California, USA Kiting Since: 2006 Airush Since: 2010 Favourite discipline: Surf Kite: Wave Board: Converse Favourite spot: Lakey Pipe Other Sponsors: Prolimit Best Result: 1st Cape Verde Expression Session What music do you like: All music. What do you do when there is no wind: Shoot guns
This wave rider is one of the best ones in the world, he has a lot of style going down the waves and he likes to stay in the tube of the wave. Bear is a very good rider because of his technical level and he is currently riding on the Airush Wave, which is one of the most technical kites in the market. He uses two kinds of board: The Airush Compact and the Airush Cypher, that alow him to ride in almost all the conditions.
A video from him:
Source of the interviews: airush.com check 'em out!!
