Living the Dream

07.05.12

Kite trips and Kalpitiya Lagooon

The wind has definitely started in Sri Lanka.
I'm kiting every day in the Kalpitiya lagoon, the spot is awesome and never crowded. The water is glassy flat and the most of the people are beginner which all stay upwind of the best wakestyle spots.

Few days ago the north team arrived wt Tom Court, Tom Hebert and Thomas Paris. The guysare rocking the lagoon wt all the new 2013 equipment, since it is all produced over here is the cheapest way to test... and i would say one of the spots that gives u all the opportunities to the all kites on one spot. Waves, flat water, choppy.. u name it Sri Lanka has it.

We did already to kitetrips wt boats to some smaller islands just a few km downwind of the lagoon. Kitesurfinglanka is offering those trips. U can't really do it alone because u need a...

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Living the Dream

27.04.12

Sri Lanka Trip 2012

A Trip to Sri Lanka

The trip started wt packing up all my stuff from my place in Boracay and put it in storage. Since the wind was only good in the mornings for the last few days, I had enough time to do it.

We took the 2GO night ferry from Caticlan direct to Batangas, which is 2h bus ride away from Manila. We got a nice upgrade on the ferry to a private cabin, which is actually just 300php more than the usual tourist class and well worth it. I donno why u cannot choose this cabins at the online booking, u just have to be quick when u enter the boat and ask at the front desk about an upgrade.

There are plenty of busses waiting in Batangas which go to all parts of Manila.

We left the luggage in the airport and spent the whole day...

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27.04.12

KTA Thailand and Vigan

We had a busy march this season wt the KTA. First we landed in Thailand for the Asian Championships in Course Racing and after that was the Philippine Nationals in Vigan on the schedule.

We chose Pranburi again in Thailand, since this is Willy’s homespot and better and less crowded than Hua Hin.

The competition here went very smooth after all the troubles we had again wt the sponsors. We managed to do around 20races for twin tip and raceboard class. With our IRO’s Andy Curnow from Australia and James from Thailand we had a very good crew for the racing. It makes the life of the competition director much easier when u don’t have to be on the water and off the water all time.

Thailand showed it’s windy side again, much better than Vietnam and so we managed to do the single and double elimination of the freestyle...

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Living the Dream

07.03.12

KTA Vietnam 2012

so we actually made it back to Vietnam again this season. Even though it is unbelievable that it is not possible to find a sponsor for an event there, when u have hundreds of new resorts and hotels popping out of the sand, so we had to pay it out of the pocket.
Before i went to Mui Ne i spent some days in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh... whatever u prefer to call it.
I had a typical tourist day, got a motorbike driver and told em to get me around town to see some nice places.

My tour started off wt the War museum which is really worth a visit, wt hundreds of original photographs taken during the war. U can actually see the other side than what u see from Hollywood.
After that i went to a chines temple and some Buddhist temple and i finished my...