General News

Well our first competition since launching the new website has come and gone, so now it's time to share the prizes.  First off we would like to thank our two sponsors for the competition, Briskites and NSD Powerball Australia.  We appreciate the support from them for the competition and helping bring some joy to those entering!  Now on to the winners, all entries were printed, put in to a shaving bag and drawn at random.

This could be "The" Buggy Off!  Luke Southern from New South Wales has attempted to achieve what usually happens by accident, purposefully.  Sporting his moves on a Flysurfer Psycho3 Luke was attaining enough height and hangtime to be able to remove the buggy from his body, float then reattach the buggy below him on his way down creating the "Buggy Off."  There's a few photos from a short sequence and video to follow.

Ocean Rodeo team rider Jeremie Tronet has released a new online dvd called Freestyle DVD.  Together with team rider Linn Svendsen they travell many islands and kiteboarding hot spots exploring the lifestyle, culture and of course the unique kiteboarding scene each has to offer.  You can watch the full dvd online or choose to downloading in High Definition.  The whole online DVD has been directed, filmed and produced by Jeremie.

Flexifoil Team rider Sy Leonard (Sylenz) has now released his new website Sylenz Films.  It is a mixture of a blog / production website featuring all his movies, interviews, releases and more.  We first mentioned Sy's new website in our Interview with him where he shed some light on it.  It is now released and you can watch all of Sy's great videos in the one place.  Rumor on the mill now is that Gravity Renegades 2 is on the way and a production is being worked on, this is fantastic news!

Peter Lynn have been working on a 50 meter square version of the Synergy with Delft University.  The kite is being developed for a power generation project, and will also share part of the project research with the on going development of Kite Sailing from Peter Lynn.  We have photos of the 50 meter Synergy showing just how large the kite is.  Peter Lynn has been doing some interesting research lately in the development of Kite Sailing and using kites as leverage forces, the potential controlled forces that can be generated by a 50 meter square kite are huge!

"For the last week I’ve been at Colona Watersports in Egypt for a photoshoot,
we had wind everyday and got some sick photos."