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| Date of birth: | 30/3/1988 0:0:0 |
| Height: | 178 |
| Weight: | 73 |
| Years of experience: | 6 |
| Lives in: | Noordwijk, the Netherlands |
| Favorite spot: | Woodmans Point, WA. Dolphin Beach / Big Bay, SA. Noordwijk, NL. |
| Has kited in: | Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, Canary Islands, Australia, U.S.A., Italy, Canada, Hawaii, Greece, Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela and more... |
| Kites because: | I kite because I can let go all my energy and feelings in it. I can do it as aggressive and powerful as I want, just loving this sport...I like to be on top of the game with my buddy Aaron Hadlow and take the Freestyle to another level each time we ride! |
| Dislikes: | Olives and Pikkels...blehh!!! |
| Listens to: | Music...music is what keeps me going when I’m on the road, where ever I am I always feel home when I’ve got my ipod!! I listen to all kinds of music but I love Techno, Minimal, the electro kinda stuff. It gives my life a little more action when I listen to Richie Hawtin, Magda, Troy Pierce, Sven Vath, Karotte and all those freaks! I love to party…
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| Occupation: | I finished my school, that was the first thing my dad said to me when I got hooked on kiteboarding...First school, then kiting!! So that’s what I did, got my school over and done with and then fully focused on my thing. The thing I had most fun with, kiteboarding! |
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Which kites do you use?
I’m riding the Slingshot 2008 Fuels. |
Why do you use I’m riding the Slingshot 2008 Fuels. kites?
I ride the Slingshot kites because Slingshot has been supporting me very well since the beginning. I love the kites and love to work with them on new stuff.
The 2008 Fuel is another nicely improved kite by Tony Logosz. Soon we’ll be working on the 2009 kites already to keep being the best and most improved kite out there.
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What's your favorite kite size?
In 2007 things has changed a little for me, I found a different way of kiting for myself!! Right now I love to go out when I am lit on my 7 meter...Tony Logosz, the kite designer of Slingshot and I worked together this year, to make some sick kites!! And the small sizes are so insane, my 7m is the most smooth kite I've ever ridden.
So whenever it's 35 knots I’ll be smiling...It's just different if you fly 10 meter far or like 50...I just love to go MASSIIVE!!!
In 2008 the small sizes still rock as hard, and the bigger sizes have got a better low-end so i love to go out on my 11 or 13 as well.
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What board brand do you use?
The LEN10 Lunacy Pro-model |
Why do you use The LEN10 Lunacy Pro-model boards?
Slingshot gave me the great opportunity to design my own pro-model with Slingshot shaper John Doyle.
It took a while and it surprised me how such a little changes on the board effect the riding so much. After a lot of testing and braining we got a sick board which can take the most horrific landings and rides super smooth.
I choose for pretty wide and square tips as this give you loads op tip-power and that's where the pop comes from.
We've got a FRT core in the board which won't break anytime soon or easy...they also use this in their wakeboards.
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What's you favorate board / size?
My own Slingshot Lunacy 129x39...This thing kicks ass! |
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Style
Adrenaline driven, with only 2 brain cells left!!!
I just ride however I want to, and that's aggressive, powerful and technical. Also I don't give a shit I don't mind crashing and had a couple of those in my career but whatever comes up in my mind I try to pull as hard as I can...It can be dangerous sometimes...But till so far it helped me out very well in competitions and free riding, people like to watch me ride and I like to show off!! So all good...
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Favorite trick
Favorite trick....hmmm don't think I’ve got a specific favorite trick, really anything that I pull off as it is hard, high, fast, powerful, crazy then I like it...it's just about the feeling I get, when I get yanked throughout the air...
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New trick
Tricks always need perfection and there always need to come new tricks...So right now I’m just training in really strong conditions so I can control everything when it's going 100 miles an hour and still try to land...My moves are getting bigger and bigger but with that bigger, bigger crashes come too...So need to stay healthy and stretch a lot...We'll see... |
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Advice
First take a lesson at a professional kite school that is I.K.O certificated...Then keep your brain there with you and listen properly, next time you need to do it alone...It's fun when you know what you're doing...So go out there with a lesson and get to know what you want to do...Keep in mind, Mother Nature can be a Bitch sometimes!! |
Anything else?
Don't talk about it just show your shit...!!!
Pick up your lessons in time!!! Live life how it goes, don't put to much energy in changing things it can be badly, just pick it up and take it...once you go it will be all good!
AAAAAAAAAAdrenaline Driven for lifetime!
PEACE and Mellow out...
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