The Sunday skate at the Laughing Gull Bowl continued this week. It was a full house with most of the coaches back in town and the weather becoming warmer all were excited to skate. Everyone had a great session and some pretty technical tricks were being made. It was a great way to start the week!
Brad even shot a video of one of my runs…
Not much happening in issue 50 of Kiteworld Magazine. Two photos of Ruben Lenten appeared from the 2010 Triple-S Invitational.
After a great session kitesurfing at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse with Lulu, Sammy, Rich and Darren, I headed back North to Rodanthe. Jessie and crew showed up again for the sunday skate session. It was a great session with the bowl nearing completion, the guys were learning new lines and having a great time!
Jesse Davis brought some friends over from out of state for another weekend skate session. The Sunday Skate at LGB had to be change to Saturday due to weather. The railings went up on the bowl and the skaters came out to play.
It was again windy today. I went for two ocean-side Kiteboarding sessions today. The first one at lunch, it was blowing 23 as we packed all the gear. By the time we made it to S-Turns it dropped 10 knots! It was a pretty rough ride as it was difficult to be in the right place when you were that under powered.
The evening session was fun! We went to Lulu’s house where Jason, Brandon, Sammy, Lulu and Tommie all rode for a while, until the current was too strong and then went down the coast a bit to my house and called it a day. Both sessions I rode the 2011 Liquid Force 8m Havoc and my Surftech 6’1 board.
Thanks for the photos Mel!
The new issue of Kiteboarding Magazine arrived at the shop earlier this week. Here are some of the shots that made it in.
his photograph of Kiteboarder Brandon Scheid appeared in The Kiteboarder Magazine. Brandon is nose pressing the Liquid Force Wall Ride during the 2011 LF product shoot. This is a very difficult technical trick, which requires the rider to jump off the water onto the wall and instead of displacing their weight equally, they have to lean forward and place the majority of the weight on the front foot.
Professional Kiteboarder Brandon Scheid made the cover of iksurf Issue #25. There is a great interview about Brandon’s Kiteboarding Career in there so have a read and enjoy the images (starting on P.22).
I scored my third cover from the 2011 Liquid Force Shoot with this shot of Chris Burke on the JWCF Slider on the cover of SBCKiteboard Magazine. I was very excited with how well the guys were riding and it allowed me to try new thing while out shooting. I like that the lighting is completely different from the other covers and I must say this shot was a tough one to pull off. I also wanted to thank Nate Appel and Michael Juhl for being my flash guys that night!