The Team in the Lagoon

Kari about to start her heat

Lex holding his new board

Hi everyone,

We are just back home from a great week at www.mondial-du-vent.com in Leucate France which was also the PKRA stop from Saturday to Tuesday. Big thanks to John from http://www.adrenaline-kitesurf.com and importer for Ozone Kites in France for hosting us.

The South wind direction brought us some nice swell so ripping the waves on the 5m SportII was superb.

Leucate offers strong kitesurfing conditions with the Tramontana coming offshore down the mountains most of the time with a 9m the most used size. It is also perfect for any kind of landkiting. The beach of La Fraqui is well known for its hard packed surface that allows you to even ride skateboards, painful like concrete when you fall!

If you ever fancy a great event week in the early season in great atmosphere meeting all the stars of the kiteboard and windsurf scene you should make it to the Mondial du Vent next year!

Cheers Dom

Read on for Kari words about the PKRA:

 >>It was a lot of girls and guys how signed up for the competition and booth had to go true the trails.

Lex Dekker from Ozone, brunotti and me made the trails and went in the main event. The wind was strong, gusty and it was cross-offshore. We pumped kites from 5m to 9m. Lex did his first heat but did not pas and he was ready for the double. My first heat was against Audery Meyer and I was not really happy to meat here.

After 7min fighting with the wind, I past that heat and was ready for the next one. I was now against Bruna Kajiya from Brazil. Bruna is the 2 best girl in the world, it was good training for me and I was ready for the double together with Lex.

The girl final was against Bruna and Gisela, like always. It was a close heat; Bruna did more power and more style then Gisela and was the winner in this final.

For the guys Aaron Hadlow and Kevin Langeree was again meeting in the final. This time it was Kevin how made the best heat. He landed a front mobe to blind, blind juge 3, front mobe, non- inverten slim.
In the double Lex did a good heat but did not pas. I was against Jo Wilson from UK. I was really happy with my heat and I pas. My first time winning against Jo.

In my next heat I was up against Anja Grzelinska I did a good heat and was happy with my riding, but she past, next time Anja… !!!

In the final Gisella put up a show and made to really good heats. She was not happy with here performance the other day, but this day she was the best and the winner of the PKRA France.

Kevin did again a good heat and went home to Holland as the winner of PKRA France. He did some good moves like front mobe 7, KGB, Front mobe, Back mobe.

Now I will go home to Norway, but in one week I will go back to France with my winter Jacket.<<

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