Day four in Mauritius; no wind in the morning, and the dolphin watching tour left without me. No matter though as Flo and (my name is) Zearle from Kiteboarding (the German mag – the good one) and myself jumped on the boat from the Mistral centre with a quiver of boards and surfed the rights [...]
I’ve just travelled out here to Mauritius from the UK. I had to take two flights and with layovers the whole thing took 24hrs. No big deal, but alas I was carrying the common cold at the time (shrugged it off now of course). Dunno if you’ve been to an airport in the last week [...]
It’s 0422 in the morning and I’ve just been woken up by something you probably wouldn’t believe, even if it would sound rather good if I wrote it down here. But actually with nothing better to do, I’m updating the blog. Here’s a quick run down of the kites we’re testing right now: JN PrimaDonna 3; GIN [...]
One thing you can say about kitesurfers: they can bloody well drink. It must be the high metabolisms in their athletic carcasses or all the lung power or maybe just that brain which has been battered by so many boards and swells that it doesn’t respond to the first 10 pints. Probably it’s the [...]
Been some interesting threads on the busier UK forum of late, well, they start of interesting and soon turn into a load of old horses cock once the people that believe their own bullshit get amongst the discussion. You know the sort of thing; someone comes along and asks a sensible and relevant question, [...]
Phew, been a very long time since updates, sorry about that! I’ve been stacked out at The Surf Sanctuary and just had a week in Tarifa to check out the new Cabrinha 2010 range, including their new wave/freestyle big hitter – The Nomad. It’s been two years since I was last in Tarifa, and though you [...]