Bryan Elkus

Author: Bryan Elkus

  • Leaving MI for a while

    Hey everyone (KiteMI.com post),
    Well graduation in a week away. I just wanted to let you all know that I’m moving down to hatteras. I took a job with Real kiteboarding in the media/marketing dept. So, ill be playing with cameras and computers like its really my job. Ill probably have to go kiting too. But I’m going to miss riding with all of you. I’m not heading down there until feb. So, hopefully we can all get together for some snow kiting or some boarding before I leave. I hope to see a lot of you down there on trips with Brian Lefeve, GLK and Klye of the D or any other way you can head down there. Let me know if your heading down and ill try and get some time off. I hope all is going well for everyone. I’m going to finish up the video after schools down when I can sit down and concentrate for a couple days and once I get all the footage.

    ~elkus

  • The Shop Midnight Sale ’06

    The Shop put on their annual Midnight sale and snowboard event. It was a huge turn out. Much bigger than last years, without a doubt. This year it featured a scaffolding drop in to a wall ride. It was a blast! See some of the action below:

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  • GLK 2006 beta release

    Hey everyone, well the 2006 GLK movie has been released but only in the beta version. Much work still has to be done. There are still a lot of kiters we dont have in the video yet. I still need to do all the titles and the credits. but feel free to check it out.

    CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE:
    http://www.greatlakeskiteboarding.com/video/GLK2006/

    From Turtle:
    Bryan Elkus video premier, all 3 Metro Detroit Kiteboading shops will have displays, buffet dinner, top shelf open bar and dance floor. In conjunction with the Lake St Clair Network.

    07 Gear from all shops on display, giveaways and swag.

    More details to come, so mark your calanders. The day before Thanksgivng in St Clair Shores.

  • GLK Kitemare and MMW premiere









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    Well we braved the 30 degree weather and the 35 knots of wind and had a terrific weekend. Thursday was too cold to ride without booties and gloves so we headed to the tiki to hang out and watch the game on the tv. Friday wykoff dressed up and headed out for a tack and jump on the water and then we all called it a day. He was totally lit on a 9m. Friday evening is when most of the rest of the crew came up. We did the hole bash thing and then got up and rode sat morning with everyone. I got GLK rookie of the year. I was very excited about that. Brian hooked me up with a bunch of gear and stickers. It was cold but not too bad to have everyone ridign for a few hours. ThenI headed to Grand Rapids for the Midwest What! video premiere. It was a blast. It was great to see all of marc’s had work come together for everyone to see. There were hundreds of people there, im not sure of the offical count yet but it was high.

    KITEMARE VIDEO: CLICK ME!!!

  • first snow 06-07 season


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    ITs official, its snowed in MI. Were all getting pumped to got snowboarding. There have been a few rail jams already. The next big one will be at The Shop in brighton, MI (bikesandboards.com) hope to see you all there.

  • first snow 06-07 season


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    Originally uploaded by bryan elkus.

    ITs official, its snowed in MI. Were all getting pumped to got snowboarding. There have been a few rail jams already. The next big one will be at The Shop in brighton, MI (bikesandboards.com) hope to see you all there.

  • 18′ waves on lake MI

    just wanted to post this forcast from the NOAA beacuse its crazy:

    GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON
    THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON

    REST OF TODAY
    WEST WINDS 15 TO 25 KNOTS INCREASING TO GALES TO 35 KNOTS LATE IN THE DAY. OCCASIONAL RAIN. WAVES 1 TO 2 FEET BUILDING TO 6 TO 10 FEET.

    TONIGHT
    WEST GALES TO 35 KNOTS DECREASING TO 30 KNOTS AFTER
    MIDNIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS THIS EVENING…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY
    AND A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. WAVES 14 TO 18 FEET.

    THURSDAY
    WEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS. RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. WAVES 12 TO 16 FEET.

    THURSDAY NIGHT
    WEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS. RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS
    LIKELY. WAVES 10 TO 14 FEET.

    lake Huron looks pretty gnarly for us this weekend too:

    .THURSDAY…SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS…WITH GUSTS TO 40 KNOT GALES. SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 5 TO 8 FEET.
    .THURSDAY NIGHT…SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS…DECREASING TO 20 TO 25 KNOTS AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUSTS TO 35 KNOT GALES. SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 4 TO 7 FEET.
    .FRIDAY…SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS…INCREASING TO GALES TO 35 KNOTS. GUSTS TO 40 KNOT GALES. SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 5 TO 8 FEET.
    .SATURDAY…WEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS…WITH GUSTS TO 35 KNOT GALES. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 4 TO 7 FEET.
    .SUNDAY…SOUTH WINDS 20 TO 25 KNOTS. WAVES 3 TO 5 FEET.

  • LSP and WL weekend

    So it was another amazing weekend. Wykoff, paul and I headed to the blue bird sky’s of the west side for the weekend. We arrived at little sable point around 9 to the slightest breeze. No longer than a half hour later it was cranking. We pumped up the big kites and we were lit. We rode super powered on the big kites for a couple hours. We couldn’t hold down the kite any more so we put up the 13m kites. I had a great session on my 13 playing un hooked for a while. I tried a couple kiteloops, which didn’t end too well. WE did a downwinder with dave and sarah all the way to the end of the sand dunes. Lets just say it was a long walk back. We hit up the brown bear for dinner. They have some terrific burgers. We drove to noah’s place for the night. We watched kiteboarding videos until late. We woke up a sun break and headed to the beach to put up our small kites. We wound up doing four down winders. Thanx noah and paul. The first session I rocked out on the surfboard. I had a blast on it and definitely need to get one. Nest were the downwinders. Then sarah and dave showed up so we did another one. After getting back we put up the big kites for a super powered session at the pier. Got some get video and learned new tricks what a great weekend.

    this could be the last of the comfortable weekends, but again I said that 3 weeks ago. but heres is the forcast for this weekend (the GLK kitemare): I NEED A SMALLER KITE!!!!!!

    South Huron:

    .THURSDAY…SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS…WITH GUSTS TO 40 KNOT GALES. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS THROUGH EARLY MORNING…THEN SCATTERED SHOWERS THROUGH MID EVENING…FOLLOWED BY SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS AND
    A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS. WAVES 4 TO 7 FEET. A GALE WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
    .FRIDAY…WEST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS…WITH GUSTS TO 35 KNOT GALES. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 5 TO 8 FEET.

  • 3rd place Corrugated Design

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    The results are in and I recieved 3rd place for my entry to the corrugated design competition.  Check the AICC winners HERE.

    These wall pieces were made out of corrugated board.  Both single and double walled board were used to create a difference in texture.  Ardios and Auto-CAD was used to design these designs.  Then using the Ardios cutting table the pieces were cut out. Each piece was then adhered together to create each wall hanging.

    Here is the email:

    Dear Bryan:

    On behalf of Chip Schiffenhaus, Chairman of the AICC Corrugated Packaging Design Committee, I congratulateyou on winning third place in the Corrugated as Art category in AICC’s 7th Annual Student Corrugated Packaging Design Competition.

    More than 20 entries were received this year from students in the U. S. and Canada. In addition, the quality, innovation and creativity of these entries were considered outstanding. You should be very proud to have been a part of this year’s competition.