Lot's of traveling done again and lot's to come...I was invited to Ukraine by the Slingshot importer Alexander Karpenko.
I really didn't know what to expect from a country like that.
I arrived in Kiev, got in a ten hour car drive with Alexander to the South.
We arrived at the place where a cool festival/event was set-up.
All the people set-up their tents on the beach and just camped there for the weekend!
Every evening there was a band playing and at day there was a Red Bull DJ spinning some decent tunes.
So I came there to do a demo, wind came up quite good and I gave a nice show with about 300 people watching. I love it when a crowd is watching, you just go mad and ride with a lot of energy.
I got really good feedback from the people and they loved the kiting…Not many people spoke English but I had a good time just feeling the good vibe.
Some good looking chicks as well, dammn…
Thank to all for showing me a good time in your country.
Peace!

After Ukraine I went on a little holiday with my friend Max who works for Mystic.
The PKRA competition was on, so it was good to catch up with a couple of the guys again.
Aaron did a good job and I’m glad he came in first, epic riding! ☺ Way forward!
Some good parties go down every year in the Karpa tent, just no comment!

After a few days of chilling home and wakeboarding a bit, I fly out to Latvia.
Renars, the Slingshot importer invited me for a demo and hang-out!
This is what they wrote about the competition which will be part of the big Ride Summer Festival in Latvia…The competition Iron Man will be exciting not only for participants, but also for audience, because kiteboard freestyle icon Ruben Len10 is coming to Latvia to demonstrate a show. Recently Ruben won the Triple S Invitational, which is a competition between the best riders in the world. Before competition starts, there will be a press conference with Ruben Len10. Anyone, who is interested in talking to a kiteboard global star, is very welcome to Dubulti beach on 9th of August.

So yeah I’ll let you know how it goes!

Peace and take care. Enjoy life, cause that’s what it’s for!
LTR Ruben

Holy shit, that was a sick trip!
Sitting on the airport right now on my way back to Amsterdam, always good to go home...Moving into my new apartment will be great! Got some party lined up with my homies, time to chill...

My trip here in the USA was insane, had so much fun and been chilling with such a mellow people. Cheers for the good vibes everyone...
Like i had some work to do with Slingshot, finishing up the Slingshot LEN10 Freestyle Collection.
Slingshot gave me the great opportunity to be madly involved with the design and development of the new Lunacy boards, the new killer Fuel and a new LEN10 pro-bar.

The boards rock, i love the feel of em and they are super durable...They come in the sizes 129, 132 and the 135. Now everyone can get away with riding this awesome board. Wide tips which means great pop and a single concave in there for softer feel on the landings.

The new Fuel is insane, i had some huuuge loops in the gorge...We've been testing around with some new profiles and shapes, after testing a couple prototypes we came to the thing i wanted.
Super direct feel on the four line pro-bar, smoothest turning, good power and a bit of depower...But people who choose this kite, will have to ride hard! Promise?!

The bar is just kept simple and durable, i like it simple...No messing around with too much shit on the bar! 800pound lines should hold in any kind of conditions.

So we had to shoot new photos on the new gear, we had some cool shots which will be published in the magazines worldwide...

Also we set-up some rails with an awesome crew, the local crew in Hood River put out some rails and a kicker. One day there even came a sick limo with a rail on top...So we were hitting that thing pretty hard.
It was fun hanging with the boys like Sleezy, Chucktown's mr. Blair, Dre, Ian, Dylan, Joby and all those guys...
We even went snowboarding up mt. Hood 2 days, soooo much fun!

So yeah now it's time to go home, chill a bit and then Dubai for a couple days.

Peace out everyone, rock that shit!

The Triple-S event at Real Kiteboarding in Cape Hatteras has come to an end!
It was a super good week with a fun crew throwing down hard on and off the water.
We did Sliders, which was a lot of fun, they had a huge Red Bull funbox. I only had one day on it, but looking forward to hit rails soon again.
Then we had the Slick session, which was a downwinder of like 9miles. With 3 stops on some epic flat/slick-water spots. Thbe wind was blowing alright i took out my new 7meter Fuel proto-type and did some kiteloops and shit. It was fun.
Then we had the Surf, but the waves were kinda small so we were just hanging on the beach drinking the usual beers.

The last night we had the award ceremony which was pretty cool...
I never expected that i came in 1st on the Slick and 1st Overall.
It was one of the most mellow events i've ever been to. Let's keep that going, See ya all next year!
Thanks to Real Kiteboarding and all the riders for making this a great week.

2008 Triple-S Invitational Final Results

MEN’S SURF
1st Jon Modica
2nd Davey Blair
3rd Andre Phillip
4th Sam Bell
5th Dimitri Maramenides

MEN’S SLICKS
1st Ruben Lenten
2nd Aaron Hadlow
3rd Billy Parker
4th Brandon Scheid
5th Davey Blair

MEN’S SLIDERS
1st Andre Phillip
2nd Aaron Hadlow
3rd Ruben Lenten
4th Jason Slezak
5th Sam Bell

MEN’S OVERALL TRIPLE-S CHAMPION
1st Ruben Lenten
2nd Andre Phillip
3rd Aaron Hadlow
4th Davey Blair
5th Jon Modica

WOMEN’S SURF
1st Clarissa Hempel
2nd Daphnee Laliberte
3rd. Susi Mai

WOMEN’S SLICKS
1st Clarissa Hempel
2nd Susi Mai
3rd. Daphnee Laliberte

WOMEN’S SLIDERS
1st Clarissa Hempel
2nd Daphnee Laliberte
3rd. Susi Mai

WOMEN’S OVERALL TRIPLE-S CHAMPION
1st Clarissa Hempel
2nd Daphnee Laliberte
3rd Susi Mai

BEST SESSION
1st Brandon Scheid
2nd Andre Phillip
3rd Ruben Lenten

BEST WIPEOUT
1ST Marc “Marley” Ramsier
2ND Ian McKeowan
3RD Davey Blair

POKER TOURNAMENT CHAMPION
Jon Modica

SLICKSTYLE ATTITUDE AWARD
Jason Slezak