After alot of hard work and countless crashes I finally started to land more than I crash (good to know I’m moving forward atleast). August seems to be the month every year, when all my trix start to get consistent. So now it’s again time to learn some new moves with new gear. My new, “secret” gear are right around the corner and I can’t wait to get my hands on it!

My girlfriend was kind enought to take some photos, all the images can be found here.

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S-bend	Backroll

I had set up a little selfcam project, that turned out o.k if you ask me. It can be downloaded from this location (right click and save as)

I have also gotten some visits from my good friends Martin, Tom and Helge. Love to kite with these guys, you push yourself harder and go faster when you are with skilled friends. Easy to fall back when you are out there all buy yourself. Guess it’s my turn to visit them now, looking forward to it.

Guro and Susanne has taken some photos, they can all be found at my gallery.

I have gotten a few new trix dialed in, and are very happy with that. Some trix has been lost, but are in recovery mode (hopefully I will get them before the summer end). But one of the most memorable and fun trix is just jumping high and looping the kite. For me nothing bets the fact that it is like having your own personal rollercoster ride. Up up up, slingshoted away, coming down at insain speeds, and picked up again by the kite …. it’s a rush! Adrenalin pumping, endorfins exploding in your brain, what a great feeling.

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Getting some air	Crash and learn	All in a good days work

Front to blind

My girlfriend went with me to the beach, locked and loaded with the deadly Canon D350 camera. The kites got pumped up, the adrenaline started to pump and off we went! First serious session this year, and it allways feels like you have to start from scratch when you almost haven’t kited for 5 months.

Guro took some really good photos, they can all be found at my gallery.

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Backroll to revert	Backroll	See any wind?
Backmobe try	Grab	Front

Yesterday the wind was blowing almost directly south, and between 10-15 knots. I played around on my surfboard for a while in the light winds, when the wind picked up I got to try out my new board. The Cyclone 133×41cm mounted with Union bindings and no fins. Tried acouple of trix, nothing with a “high crash-factor”. The water holds about 5-6 degrees celcius, and it’s pretty cold when you take one on the head.

Today I got another lightwind session, the wind came from south-west (and pretty gusty), and between 8-12 knots. So I spent all day trying to ride toeside on the surfboard from both left and right. My surfboard is gotta be one of my best buys ever, if the kite fly’s, I can have fun with the surfboard strapless.

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Blade Vertigo 08 12m2

The wind blew at about 8-12 knots, the wind direction was steady south and the water temprature was actually not that bad. I geared up with my 12m2 Blade Vertigo and my trusty surfboard, put on my weatsuit and hit the water at my favorite local spot. I had a great time playing around with the surfboard strapless for about 3 hours before the sun started to fade. Awesome!

The snow was wet, the wind was gusty but who cares? I had just gotten to take my new 12m2 Blade Vertigo kite for a spinn, and I liked it alot! The kite feelt good, even in bad conditions. The fact that we only had 20cm of wet snow below us, made it kind of hard to try any tricks. So I enjoyed doing transitions, grabs and just cruising.

In my package from kitebutikken.no, I also got a new board to try out. The Cyclon Wildseries 133×41cm board, what a beaty! Looking forward to hit the water soon.

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Cyclon Wildseries 133×41cm

To bad it was only 20cm with snow, alittle more and we might have gotten this winter season’s best session. Offcourse I had to give it a go, and luckly I did not hurt myself.

We also had to check out how our local spot (Hvittesand) was holding up after all the winterstorms. It looks epic! If it stays the way it is now, we will have a perfect “lagoon” sheltered from the chop with waist deep water. The water temprature is acctually pretty descent, so I am hittin the water as soon as we get some warmer weather and winds from the south.

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Snow session in March	The lovers	Hvittensand

I meet up with some old friends and made some new ones, this is what I love the most about going places. The most significant event might just have been to meet Ben up in the mountains. He is an old friend that I meet back in 2004 in Australia, very nice to meet him again.

My girlfriend and a friend of hers came up with me, and tried to control a kite for the first time (and they did very very good on the Blade Vertigo’s that I just got to try out).

We also managed to snap a couple of photo’s (thanks hun), and I started to get in the groove again after more that a month without kiteing. The complete gallery is at this link.

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Again, my girlfriend was so nice to take some photos and a bit of video (thanks hun). All the images has been uploaded to the gallery here.

My double front (a bit sloppy, but still a double)

I had a great day with some major breakthru in my progression, tried some really powered s-bend to blinds, and finally figured out how to do the slim chance. Can’t wait for another day to go out and acctually land some of the moves!

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My beatyfull girlfriend	Slimchance try	Huge frontroll