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There is a sport that is like surfing, wakeboarding, and flying all at once.  If you’ve ever been to Pismo Beach on a windy day, you will see over two dozen kiteboarders in the water or doing tricks high above it.  Most of these riders are ordinary people that are simply addicted to this amazing extreme sport called kiteboarding.

Kiteboarding uses the wind to combine the aspects of surfing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and windsurfing into one extreme ocean sport.  The kite, anywhere from 6-20 square meters, powers the rider through the water.  The kite will have either 4 or 5 lines up to 27 meters long that connect to a control bar, which the rider pushes and pulls to control the kite in any direction.  The bar hooks into the rider’s harness, which is most often worn around the waist. A board similar to a wakeboard or surfboard enables the rider to fly over the water. Check out our kites, boards, and harnesses here

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PAROS PKRA WORLD CUP 2009 DAY-4 - Sunday, September 13, 2009 10:00 AM

Powerful onshore winds dominate Day 4

PAROS PKRA WORLD CUP 2009 DAY-4Pounda, Paros Greece, September 12th, 2009. What a great day at the Paros Kite World Cup 2009. The sun decided to come out from its hiding place after yesterday’s rainstorm. The temperature was bearable, peaking at 20 degrees Celsius and the wind was constantly roaring from 20 to nearly 30 knots.

The mandatory rider’s meeting was held at 10:00 am. Van Tol announced that the Greek National freestyle competition would begin at 10:30 am followed by two course races.

The single elimination competition kicked off this morning’s events. It was nice to see the different riding styles, techniques and execution of tricks as the freestylers took centre stage. Mike Chatzilliadis (GRC, Flexifoil) took the number one position for the men performing numerous tricks with lots of variety. Chatzilliadis proves to have a lot of talent for the sport and should certainly focus his attention on training hard to achieve his goal to compete in the PKRA freestyle world division.

Course races began shortly after a brief 30 minute lunch break, making the transition time between disciplines very short for all the PKRA crew. Everyone was in good spirits and couldn’t wait for more action to begin because by 2:00 pm the wind was in full force. Racers made their way to the start line, as the extremely choppy white water splashed across their directional boards.

PAROS PKRA WORLD CUP 2009 DAY-4Today’s course was a little less long than yesterday’s. German rider, Dirk Hanel (North) proved that he had his guns loaded and wasn’t going to loose this battle for first place against French competitor Bruno Sroka (Cabrinha). Hanel was in the lead for a large portion of the final lap, but was defeated yet again by Sroka who overtook Hanel at the last marker on the way to the finish line. French rider Julien Kerneur (Takoon) took the third position.

The second race of the day was just as exciting as the first race. Bruno Sroka (FRA, Cabrinha) dominated all riders and whipped his way across the finish line. Julien Kerneur (FRA, Takoon) would have had finished in third place, but was disqualified due to an improper start. German rider Dirk Hanel (North) slid his way into second place. It was a photo finish for the second and third place position as two French rider’s Pierre Romain (North) and Sebastien Salermo (Gin) battled their way to the finish line. Romain took the third spot followed by Salermo in fourth place one second later.

Today’s competitions came to an end at 6:00 pm once the freestyle double eliminations came were completed. Mike Chatzilliadis (GRC, Flexifoil) made his way yet again to the number one spot on the results list, followed by Iannis Tamvakis (GRC, Airush) in second place and the third position went to George Argiriadis (GRC, Flexifoil).

Winners for the women’s freestyle double eliminations are Maria Kampa (GRC, Naish) taking the number one position followed by Afrodin Balasica (GRC, Naish) in second place and Felicia Constandopoulou (GRC, Best) in third.

The last rider’s meeting for the event will be held tomorrow morning at 10:00am with the first possible start at 10:30 am.

 


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