The lifestyle, the weather and ‘oh so many’ kiteboarding spots is what makes Australia one of my favorite places to be!

My trip actually started kind of weird, this guy at the Malaysia check-in wanted me to pay 54 Euros per kilo. As I’m traveling with like 35kg sporting equipment he wanted to charge 1890,-Euros.
I tried everything I could to get a flat rate for my sporting equipment, but he wouldn’t do anything to help me.
I ended up canceling my flight and book another one with KLM. They charged me 160Euros, which is a fair deal. Some airlines are just too retarded to understand!

Anyways, I arrived in Melbourne on the 11th of November. My mate Steve lives right by the beach, shopping street and gym. So everything’s pretty mellow and easy to get to.

The purpose of my trip was more of a holiday kind of thing, but it turned out in quite a bit of traveling and riding.
I got back on my gym schedule which makes me feel much better. Being in shape is so important.

During my trip I visited Perth for 10days or so, pretty nice place. Unfortunately we didn’t score too much wind…

I went to The 28th Mambo Merimbula Classic, this is a pretty cool Australian style event. Met lots of cool people and had a bit of a party…

In Melbourne I met Pauly, he’s filming a 100% dedicated kiteboarding Tv show which will air on Fuel Tv in January.
He’s a cool dude and I hung out with him quite a bit.
We went over to the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast were I did some of the hosting for the show. Which was pretty cool to do.

I ended up wakeboarding at the Sunshine coast, just an insane cable park what they have there. They’ve got like 14 obstacles in the water.
Had a lot of fun with Andy Yates, he’s ripping these days.

Flying back home on Wednesday, only staying for a day or five.
I’m off to Cape Town on the 16th and will stay there until the end of January.
Filming and shooting some new stuff, should be fun!

Keep ya in the loop.
Rock it!
Cheers Ruben

I love it when i'm home, the wind is on and the sea is rough...Yesterday was a good day, i went out in Zandvoort for a little session. The wind was pretty gusty and i had to edge super hard to get a little upwind.

I was out on my new 7m Fuel 09, sooo smooth, direct and constant...Great recovery after the loops to safe my ass from smashing my face on the water!

Sebastiaan Hogeboom of Kiteshots.nl was taking some photos. Cheers mate...
Check em out on the link below or in the picture gallery.

Peace!
www.kiteshots.nl/kiteboard/2008/zandvoort/12-08-2008/index.php

My friend Renars from Latvia who I met six years ago for the first time invited me to his country.

He owns two Skate/Surf/Snow/Kite shops in Riga, he's a cool dude and he showed me a good time there.

There was a Festival called the Ride It Summer Jam, Iron Man was  the Kiteboarding part of this festival which had Jams for Skateboarders, BMX and Wakeboarding. It was fun to be at Jurmala (Dubulti beach) to see how the sports are going in Latvia.

Too bad there was no wind for the weekend, but we went wakeboarding on Renars B'day which was a lot of fun.

I brought two of my good friends from Holland to chill and see what i'm doing. The way to Latvia we had like a four hour delay which was not cool!

But it was fun and i'm sure i'll be back in Latvia.

 

Check some pics if you want :)

 

Peace! Thanks to Renars and crew... http://www.aloha.lv/