Author: Bryan Elkus

The Midwest What! teaser was played on Shralp! on Jan 7, 2006 check it here:
http://shralp.com/archiv/shralp53.html

Sharlp! is a video podcast from blankpaper studios (the guys who brought you 91 words for snow): Sharlp.com

Just wanted you all to know that the GLK2006, The Movie is complete as of a couple minutes ago. More info about the GLK home movie release party will surface in the next day or two when all the details are in order. The movie length runs 25-minutes. The video should be up for download shortly after the party.

Riders: Chris Landis, Bryan Elkus, Ryan Wykoff, Eric Schubel, Karl Muendel, and LeFeve.
P.S. There is also a LONG friends section

Check www.greatlakeskiteboarding.com or the Lake St. Clair Kiteboard Forum for more details kitemi.com.

Well MI is still without snow. So what is there to do you ask? Kiteboard! Metro Beach, MI is no longer freezing over so we all headed there a day of kiting in Jan. There were 10-15 of us out riding. Going from 70+ degree water (85air) to 39 degree water (45 air) in three days just wasn’t going to happen for me so I got to ride the kite buggy for the first time. It’s a blast. I also got yelled at by the cops for doing my awesome power turns on the grass. We a few really good shots yesterday aswell.

The cruise was sweet. Im sitting in the airport now waiting to head back to MI. I rode @ 2 of the 4 ports we stopped at. I rode with Ed (from REAL) in Cozumel. Larry (from flint) was down there on vacation as well. We were very powered on 16m’s. Hate to say it but i like riding down there a bit better. the water was amazing, warm and blue as can be.

next port was grand cayman, but they closed the port cause it was too windy go figure. so i had to sit that day out and recover from the night before so i guess it worked out ok.

the last stop was Labadee in Hati. We got of the boat and nothing was moving. about 2 hours later the wind started up and cranked. It was possibly sketchiest launch and riding spot ever, but it was well worth it. I rode by 16m again for 3+ then its really picked up and It was time for the 13m’s. It was crazy i was a little private peninsula off Hati. The entire cruise was out on that beach too.

The third day of riding brought similar conditions. I was really lit on my 13m all day with a SE wind and waves. An 11m would have been the ideal kite for the day. We again got some good shots. The wind should be up again for another session tomorrow.

The first full day in florida was terrific. My grandpa and I hit pompano beach to do some kiteboarding. I met a couple really nice guys down there. I was on a 9m most of the morning then swiched to the 13m in the afternoon. Needless to say it was very windy (25+ on shore :). The heavy wind should last until tomorrow morning, so hopefully I can get in another session. My grandfather and I took over 300 photos today. Some did not turn out to great beacue of all the ocean spray but we got a couple good ones. I added 100+ to my Flickr site to check out. The ones of me my grandfather took the rest I took.

Enjoy,

PS If you use my Photos give me credit please.

time for change was in the air again today. I felt that my index page needed to match or have some connection to the new video page so thats what i did. check it out!

bryanelkus.com

enjoy…

So, I decided the video page on my site needed a facelift badly. So last night that what i did. So check it out…

http://msu.edu/~elkusbry/video.html