After spending a couple of days in Tarifa I came back to France for 2 weeks… I first flew to Marseille to attend the Orange Freestyle Cup which is a sport event where skateboarders, kiters and windsurfers come to compete and do a show for the public.
The skating was very fun to watch. Actually pros from around the world came to participate to a stop of the world championship. The guys are quite insane doing their tricks and crashes are intense, very intense. We, the kiters, decided to do a show more than a comp, Florian daubos, Sam Light, Jeremie Tronet, Jalou Langeree and myself were invited and we enjoyed a lot the 3 days of strong wind showing our sport to the public… pretty cool. We all 5 had loads of fun with the windsurfers, good vibes and big parties. These kind of events are missing really, no stress, just ride hard by day and night and enjoy the conditions!

Then I drove to Flo’s house in Montepellier and we had a good session in Beauduc with some friends, we did a little shoot and then headed to Britanny where we’ve been shooting for Stance mag with my team mate Thomas Paris and many frenchies… We got there after everyone, luckily as they sadly had no wind for 4 days, you don’t want to know how the house was after 4 days of no wind with kids wanting to ride hard…
They built and skecthy slider, but we unfortunately didn’t have enough wind to ride it, just a couple of knots missing. However I was surprised by the beauty of Britanny, the spots are as beautiful as in Caribbean with turquoise water and perfect waves almost all year long… However the temperature is not the same as in Guadeloupe.
So we shooted some lifestyle, got things ready for the next episode and next time we’ll make a great movie I hope!

Then we headed to Quiberon where I attended together with Thomas and young Marie another stop of the North French Demo tour where there was again no wind… traveling is frustrating sometimes as you don’t get the conditions you wish. But I had some very good surfing and also tried for first time to ride on a foil, that was great!!! I couldn’t beleive I could ride in 5 knots on a 14m2 Fuse and 32m lines… the feeling of riding above the water not hearing a sound except the foil cutting into the water is very cool…A perfect weapon for very very light winds.

Now I’ve spent some days in Tarifa and I’m again leaving in a few days, this time to Morocco and just have to load my car and go… a nice swell is announced so I’m thinking about going today or wait for Saturday which is when Spain is going to win over Paraguay at the football game!!! Got to watch it at the beach with all my friends!!

Here a few pics I’ve found on the web from the events… thanks to the photographers.

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