I'm Getting Bored

Its been two weeks since i've been able to fly, i'm starting to feel stir crazy

Couple of Airs

No tricks in this one, just holding on for dear life

April 19, 20011

I love powersliding on hardpacked sand.  Its one of the best surfaces to ride.

Getting into grips with foot outs is really easy in clean ocean wind.  The windspeed was in the low 20s, which was perfect for a 15m peter lynn charger

Todd riding hard on the 6m phantom.

When you are sponsored people will give you rides off of the beach

WWBB Crew

One more time :)

WildWood Buggy Bash 2011

This last week was the WildWood Buggy Bash in New Jersey and we got some nuking winds.  It was my first year at the bash and I got to meet all of the East Coat Kitesports Crew, plus many of the riders from up and down the East Coast.  I'll post up photos this week and introduce you to many of the key people.  I don't have all of the photos downloaded yet, but here is what I have so far.

Jaymz a really nice fellow who is excited about Kitesports.  We had to work on his 15m charger a bit, hope to see it in action soon

Paul, he is a wicked good rider.  He loves to rip up and down the beach and then throw a few 360s along the way.

Riding my favorite charger when the winds were low the first day.I hope everybody had a great weekend!

Good times in the Desert

Around thursday the wind died out in the afternoon and the temperatures were high. Marijn, John, Jeroen, and I decided to head out on a small road trip to Lake Mead to go swiming for the Afternoon.  

We had plenty of team gatherings in the RV, here the PL foil kite designer shares a few laughs with Jeroen, Fast Arie, John and I

This photo says it all.  Ozzy is a beast

Ricardo was flying around the playa early one morning before anybody else had a chance to get out there

Dude, wheres my buggy?

Freeman, I guess he got hot launched during the out and back and knocked himself out cold.

Dino is one of the most down to earth nice guys i have ever met, this photo doesn't capture the torture that he dishes out to Ricardo. 

Ken number3.  I found out that we share an interest in motorcycles.  He was one of the first guys that i met on the playa.  I'm gonna miss hanging out with you crazy canadians

Ziggy, small guy with tons of energy.  hooking up his special 9m phantom

NABX is nothing without the people.  If you missed this year, you should try to be there next time, it was epic!

Recovering from NABX

So as I sit at home cleaning my kites waiting for them to dry I am still reflecting on the week.  I want tto take this time to introduce you to a few of the guys who were there.

This is Jeroen Pigmans, he is one of the Dutchies who was teaching me lots of tricks.  What a good rider, and such a nice guy.  Hope to see you in the fall!

This is Fast Arie, the fastest dude on land underneath a kite.  I think his world record for speed is 82mph

Here, Jeroen is helping Ozzy fold up his vapor, he is currently number 3 in the nationals on the Dutch buggy circuit

Here is John Penders, he was the other dutcie boarder who was teaching me lots of stuff, he likes to boost big

This is one of the two most important people that I met this week.  Marijn is the team manager for the peter lynn team, and he made NABX possible for me.  Him and Ricardo, have drastically changed my life for the better.  If you ever get a chance to meet him, buy him some snapple!

Photos from John Chilese

There were many photographers who captured the essence of NABX.  John Chilese snapped a few pictures of me while I was practicing in low winds.

360 on the playa surface

Low altitude wheel grabs

This was the pile of gear outside of our RV. There were two 19m chargers, a 15, three 12m, a 10m, two 8m, and a 6m charger in that pile.  That's not including any of the prototypes we had or the quiver of vapors or twister IIs.  This was a gear junkies dream come true

Peter Lynn Kiteboarding at NABX

Heres the PL tent that we all sat underneath during the middle of the day. Many of us were saved from sundburns.

Quick shot of the team rider Chargers

A quick look at NABX

thanks to Markite for the photo

Ricardo being awesome

Marijn shooting my current favorite photo, 360 or 720, i'm not sure

This is a pre story about NABX, I have more than a thousand photos to go through, but all in all it was an insane trip.  So much fun, many new tricks and lots of friendly people.