Waterstart and First Run

Filed Under (Kitesurfing beginners) by kiteZup on 25-09-2009

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Yesterday I came across this interesting wordle diagram

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Its from the script from the Waterstart & First Run chapter of ProgressionTv beginner DVD. You can easily see the most important words in the Waterstarts and First runs…

Interesting …

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Schweizerbadet

Filed Under (Kitesurfing beginners) by kiteZup on 23-09-2009

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Finally my first kitesurfing session after the course. I met up with Björn to borrow the equipment around 17:15, and just when I got there the wind dropped and everyone was out of the water. I was super upset since I was really looking forward to the kitesurfing. But Björn told me to suit up and the wind will be back and he was right.

As soon as I got into my new Ascan Polar 5/4/3 wetsuit (which I was really satisfied with, super warm and water leaks) the wind was back. I rigged up the kite and was ready to ride. I was nervous in the beginning since there was like 15 other kitesurfers on the spot and this being my first solo attempt didn’t really help.

But as soon as i got the kite up in the air all the nervousness was gone. I had a couple of really nice runs. And with some feedback from Björn I was able to start riding upwind and almost returning to the spot I was starting from. And the feeling of riding with other kiters its amazing.

And mental note to myself….try not to fall hard on the 15 cm deep water, because your legs my hurt the next day icon smile Schweizerbadet

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Filed Under (running) by kiteZup on 23-09-2009

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Is the distance i ran this Saturday!

1:45:49 is the time for it!

15 minutes off the expected time of 1:59:59.

First time ever I ran 21 kilometres so I was quite nervous if all will be good. I was really close not to run the Stockholm marathon at all since I missed the time to pick up numbers and chip for an hour and a half icon biggrin 21098 .

It started really good and i did first 5 km in 0.23.35 so was the second 5 km 0.24.43. Thats when I realised i could actually make the 1:45 total time since I passed the pacemaker for that time in the second kilometre and he was nowhere in sight. For the first 10 kilometres I was passing almost everyone in front of me, and the only problem I had was that I was in desperate need to take a piss icon biggrin 21098 .
Eventually I had to stop on 12th kilometre, and that cost me another 1 minute in the 5 kilometre time which dropped to 0.25.33.

In the 16th kilometre the first big crisis started. First the 1:45 pacemaker passed me, and there was no way fro me to follow him. But on the 19th kilometre I realised i could still make 1:45 i was almost sprinting the last 2 kilometres and barely make it in 1:45 margin. And yeah even though there was a crisis in the last 5 kilometres the time wasnt that bad 0.26.13.

Seeing the finish line was one of the happiest moments ever, knowing this is all behind me now.

I finished 2 643rd out of 8 282 runners.

And I did realise that I have really sensitive nipples icon biggrin 21098 .

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Beginners course day 3

Filed Under (Kitesurfing beginners) by kiteZup on 17-09-2009

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Last day icon sad Beginners course day 3

Eager to get into the water but the wind was going weaker and weaker by the minute. We were all so into spending as much time on the water nobody wanted to spent time by taking photos. icon biggrin Beginners course day 3

Well there are some of course.

Like this one … perfect summer cabin for a kitesurfer
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Niiiice

Defying gravity in  Wisby
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I believe I can fly...

And for the end of the day couple of beers in Surfers bar.
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Certified IKO kitesurfers .... and proud of it

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Beginners course day 2

Filed Under (Kitesurfing beginners) by kiteZup on 15-09-2009

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Day 2 … 7 in the morning …. suit up!
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Preparations for some body dragging
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Preparations

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Give me that kite!

And away we go… woohoo
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Choo Choo..

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See ya

And the moment we have all been waiting for … bring in those kiteboards! First attempts didn’t finish all that good…
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Look mom I am out of the water...

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And now he is back in...

And then the pro took over ( that would be me icon razz Beginners course day 2 ). And all that snowboarding experience kicked in …. and I was riding it!
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On my way out

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Staying out and loving it !

Oooh yeah baby!

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Natural born kitesurfer ....

What’s best after 11 hours in the water ? You guessed it beer and a pizza….
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Beer and pizzas!

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Pizzas in action

and for the grand finale …
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Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh :-*

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Beginners course day 1

Filed Under (Kitesurfing beginners) by kiteZup on 13-09-2009

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Dennis storing as much energy as possible before the start
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K-Fat sleeping

Then carrying everything to the KiteSurfing spot ( good that  he had all that energy icon biggrin Beginners course day 1 )

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Preparations ....

After that we started with a 2 person gay train icon biggrin Beginners course day 1 On some parts the wind was so stron that we had to do a Lucky Pierre…… icon razz Beginners course day 1   Rock on!!
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Training kite ...

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Rock on!!!

That is Björn our instructor showing off…

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Finnishing off day 1 with a nice sunset ……

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The sunset

and a couple of beers…. (no pictures of that though) icon biggrin Beginners course day 1

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Beginners course completed!

Filed Under (Kitesurfing beginners) by kiteZup on 11-09-2009

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After months of waiting it finally happened. Me and my friend Dennis (a.k.a. K-Fat) decided to take KiteSurfing course in Gotland. Best 3 days ever spent.

Starting with a 2,5 m2 training kite in 30 knots wind and then moving on to 9 m2 Best kite with wind even picking up in strenght. For first time kiters we had problems holding on to a kite in the neutral zone, not even thinking of moving it to power zone since with such strong with there seemed there are only neutral and power zone and one big wind window. But stubborn as we are we actually managed to get some body dragging done.

Next morning waking up at 6 and being in water at 7 in the morning wasnt really the nicest thing that could hit hit us, but it was all worth it with nice 15-20 knots gusty wind, and semi sunny day. So we rigged the 12 m2 kite and off we were. After some more body dragging our instructor Björn from http://kiteboardcenter.se/ finally said the magic words lets get the boards. And with good instructions it didn’t take long to get out of the water and do first meters on the Chubby (that’s how the board was called). The runs became longer and longer and more and more fun.

After spending 11 hours in pretty cold Swedish waters dropped dead to beds.

Last day wasnt so hard on the waking up since we got up around 8, fixed some food for the day and left for last day of kiting. After checking a new spot where we were turned down by some bird watchers we finally picked a nice spot with nice shallow waters. The wind wasn’t as strong as the days before since it was around 10-15 knots. But we still managed to get some good runs. Learned to get out of the water and on to the board in both directions. Tried to do some turns. And really got the feeling of the kite.

Overall was really awesome and I will post the images as soon as I get them from my camera.

I know I am hooked and cant wait until the next time I get to the water, no matter how cold it is (being in Sweden and all)…

Locations: Gotland -> Klinthamn, Kovik,…

Equipment used :

Kites:  Training kite Ozone IMP 2,5 m2, BEST Guroo 12 m2, BEST Guroo 9m2
Board:  BEST Chubby 140 x 45 cm
Wetsuit:  Prolimit 4/3
Harness:  BEST

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