Last week I attended an event located in Marseille (France) which was organized by 2 well known professional windsurfers, the Moussilmani brothers. There were 5 extreme sports shown out there: skate, bmx, skydive, windsurf and kitesurf. And it was a kind of comp and show at the same time. 

I first went to the city of Antibes where I met with Jeremie Tronet (A rider from the Caribbean, like me… ) and we went to the event where we found some other international riders like Sam Light (UK), Eli Zarka (Israel), Florian Daubos (Fr), Sjoukje Bredenkamp (SA), etc. There was a great atmosphere and I really enjoyed the competition format… We just had a couple of heats during which we had to show all we could do with a kite, from oldschool to newschool, funny tricks, blind to blind… An expression session during which we really had to make the crowd go wild and impress them, which I have to say we did. Plus our friend Florian Daubos (injured) was commenting our riding and making the public go nuts, because he knew pretty well how to cheer them up by making funny comments while dancing with the event's hostesses on the beach…

At the Prize giving ceremony I was quite happy to find out that I was in the first position!!! Just a great feeling to be on the top of the podium, specially when I had so much fun by showing our sport to the people. Sam Light came 2nd, Eli Zarka 3rd and Jeremie 4th…

Now I'm back in Tarifa for some time and the KPWT have started here so I had the chance to see most of the riders… the wind was good today and there was some action going on…

I'd like to say some words for Sophie Mathews who literally broke her leg/ankle yesterday while training for the comp… so big hugs to her who is at the hospital awaiting for an operation. Bad luck!

Next destination will maybe be Portugal, then Germany, Morocco and maybe Lithuania… 

Cheers!

Fuerte was successful!!! We had a great time, loads of shooting done and training as well even if it was tough to combine both because of the tiredness and days seemed to get every time shorter, we had barely time relax and digest our food… but worth it.

Firstly I was with the whole North team for the new material shooting, we had the chance to ride on most of the new boards and kites which I have to say are great. I'm sure some will think: "what else could he say when it's his sponsor material he's talking about", but then just wait to see and try the new Vegas, absolutely insane!!! The boards are really good looking and also great for riding. The 2010 bar has some new features which are quit nice, even safer for everyone but a big advance for me as a freestyler in term of security… ;) 

Then most of the team left and it was time to start our training together with some other riders such as Cesar Portas, Alex Pastor, Jo Ciastula, Soufiane Hamaini and Gianni Aragno. After that some of us had to leave because of events we have to attend and some others stayed… Lucky they because training there with Kuky (Luis de Dios) is a really cool thing, he's an artist who dedicated his life to sports and art… Well, the thing is that he really shows us what real training is about, you sweat your shirts like you've never done it before and you understand what exactly is to be completely stiff and in pain because of training the day before… But as we always say, it's worth it!!! and we enjoyed a lot the training in group because we had much fun! We also took advantage to film and take some nice action and training pictures. 

Now I'm in Tarifa just for some days and then I'll be heading to Marseille to attend the Orange Massilia event for a little comp/show… hopefully it's nice and we can show what kiting is all about to the crowd!!!

 Cheers, here some pics.

What a great session!!! the day was shinny and the sky was actually perfectly blue so I went to check a spot together with my friend photographer Carlos Moncho and we decided to do a little shoot… the place was perfect, we had Morocco, which is only 13km from Tarifa,  and the harbour of Tarifa in the background and we came out with some really nice shots!
Then Alex Pastor came to join and we went to another spot to keep doing some nice sequences. Alex was pulling it hard with some massive grabbed tricks to blind while I started doing handle passes again… Easy ones for now but slowly getting back into it. I'm also enjoying a lot the Freestyle fish as it's a good way to have fun without having to do extreme things.

Now I'm already at the North house in Fuerte, we'll start with some clothing pics and then directly in the water as the wind seems to be great. Just saw the new boards for 2010 and the designs are quit sick, I've already chosen mine which is pimp! 

It's been a couple of days that I got back home in Tarifa. The place is as usual amazing, sunny, warm and windy everyday from every directions… What else could I ask when I've just hit the water again! it feels amazing just to be able to jump and do some little tricks, I'll take it easy with the hardcore tricks but will slowly get back into it…

Yesterday I had a little session in the lagoon together with my teammate Cesar Portas and friend Jo Ciastula, we worked a little and took some nice shots which I'll be working on for the mags… feels good to be active. Here a little preview, thanks to Cesar for the pics!

When I got back home I was happy to find the last issue of Xlife magazine coming all the way from Hong Kong, in which I am on the cover and had a nice Interview… unreadable for me as I can't read Chinese but it's still nice.

Fuerte is the next stop where all the team is going to be for the shoot, then I'll stay there 2 more weeks to train with my personal trainer Kuky and work out a little. I'll also be filming some action in and out of the water to make a little video with some other riders.

I'm back baby!!!

  Oh Yeah!!! I had an amazing surf session yesterday evening with a nice sunset… after more than 7 months without putting my feet over a board this session was really welcome!! Just the fact of going down the wave and feel the adrenaline was just insane…

It's pretty much the end of my convalescence and I'm soon going to be back on the water. All this time went quit fast and slow at the same time, the first months are the hardest but then you come back to life and understand that things happens for some reason… Now I'm really motivated, loads of traveling is already planned and I'll start with the North/ION Shoot in Fuerteventura with the team, which will be at the end of the month! So I'm really looking forward to get back on track and do some nice shots, it's like a drug…

  I've been back at CERS (training center) since a week now, gonna be two more and then back to Tarifa… Once again it's really cool here, good lifestyle and training all day long, my planning (check the picture) is quit full during the day and then I just lay on bed read a bit and fall asleep of tiredness.

  Yesterday I had a little presentation with 2 more extreme sportsmen, we had to show our sport and talk a little about it, I was surprised as there was around 60 persons and it was quit nice… I got good feedback and they liked it quit a lot, they prefer to discover the sports when it's presented by a rider than watching it on the TV just for seconds… so it was worth it and I was happy to show them some videos and stuff.