I had my car nicely packed up with a sleeping madress, all my gear next to it and ready to go. Thursday morning I headed for Stavanger, Bore beach, for the Nationals in kiteboarding.
After 6 hours of driving, I finally got to the beach. The dark clouds was covering the entire sky, and the rain was falling pretty heavily. But there was alittle wind, and I rushed to pump up my kite and get into the wet suit. Sure enought, as I got ready to hit the water … it stopped raining and the wind was gone.
Friday, first competition day started off good. It was windy enought to start the competition (not good for me who had emtyed a bottle of jegermaister the night before), anyways the wind died down after the first heat. The wind was up and down trueout the day, and I got alittle time on the water underpowered, just riding with good friends and having fun.
Saturday, was a beatyfull day. We got blessed with nice sunny weather and a huge swell …. but no wind. So we spent the day surfing and chillin on the beach. Helge had gotten down from Lillehammer, so we made alittle stand for Flexifoil (my new kites).
What I love most about the Nationals is the social bit, you get to meet all your friends from all over the country and just have a good time with good vibes. Chill out and talk smack. Saturday there was a kick ass party, and some well played entertainment from Alf and Marius. We got too see some action from the new Snowkitefilm that Remi, Sigve, Petter and Bjørn had been working on called “Dimensions” (or something like that) … gonna be sick!
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| Thursday (got the place all to myself) |
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| The stand |
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| The beach and swell |
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| Alf and Marius runnin the show |
