Friday 30 March 2012

RRD AIRSUP VIDEO OF THE DAY: SWEDEN STYLE



RRD Sweden distributor Patrick Johannson tested his brand new RRD toy... good Swedish language skill requested...

Dan Sweeney: Coming to an end & Thank You

Dear Coconut Bay & 2 Elements Watersports staff,
As some of you may know I have been staying at the resort for the past 3 months & some of you may be wonder what I have been doing all this time..?!
I've been using my time to train consistently for my up coming Professional Kitesurfing competition season in 2012.

The Resort and Kitesurfing is by far the best setup I have ever  traveled to across the world.
I have had an amazing time and I would like to thank everyone for your help, support and hospitality.
Please take your time to watch my latest video to promote the Kitesurfing at C-Bay & 2elements:



I've also been updating my website and social networking for the past 3 months to try and build awareness for the location and resort, I'm happy to say I've now reached combined online hits of 23,000 + across my website, updates and videos during my stay. Feel free to scan my
blog to take a look.

I have an Articles going into a British and Int. magazine over the coming months, I will be sure to sent you a hard copy. A big thank you once again and I hope to see you all next year where I'll be back training for the PKRA World Tour in 2013.

Best Regards,
Dan Sweeney
RRD UK Team Manager
www.rrdkitesurfing.co.uk
www.dansweeneyuk.co.uk

Thursday 29 March 2012

Luke McGillewie: Laying it down


Really a funny video featuring our SA rider Luke in action exactly as he really is...



RRD AIRSUP VIDEO OF THE DAY: CALIFORNIA STYLE



Iaorana

This is my vision of the AIRSUP. Filmed and edited by myself on a daily basis work...

The board works good and I got so much fun with it, as you can feel watching my clip...

But like I say in my news letter: "Take time to inflate it to 18psi it's just 5mn of your day to got a fun day".

Enjoy, Mateo.

Albeau Quentel and Morin in Tahiti and Moorea

PWA Slalom racers Antoine Albeau, Fred Morin and Julien Quentel took a trip to Tahiti and Moorea to check out the windsurfing scenes there.

Sardinia kite experience 2012


Italian rider Chicco Del Croce is organizing a 10 days long kite camp along the beautiful Sardinia coastline...
If you want to improve your level and discover Sardinian beauties... don't miss it...


JOIN KITEACADEMY

IL CAMP E' APERTO ANCHE A TE CHE NON PARTECIPI AL CORSO O ALLO STAGE MA VUOI SEMPLICEMENTE FARE KITE CON NOI, DIVERTIRTI...   INSOMMA FARE PARTE DEL GRUPPO KITEACADEMY!
DURANTE L'EVENTO POTRAI TESTARE I MATERIALI RRD 2012 TUTTI I GIORNI DURANTE IL CAMP ITINERANTE



grazie
Chicco

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Lorioli a Murta Maria


Ciao ragazzi qualche giorno fa ero a Stintino e ho rubato queste foto.....
ciao alla prossima
STE




RRD Air SUP DAY: All the Info


RRD Air Sup: all the info and the pictures are available on the RRD Website...

http://www.robertoriccidesigns.com/equipment/index.php/SUP/news-sup-02.html

RRD AIRSUP VIDEO OF THE DAY: MAREMMA STYLE



Ciao everybody,
here you can find the first official RRD video with RRD Air Sup...
Filmed and edited by the RRD crew (Fabrizio Luca and Valerio Moretta), featuring italian kiter Luca Marcis and Maremma beauty Bernardini Lena Cheyenne, this is a true Italian story about the Maremma country life, the love and the SUP...


Thursday 22 March 2012

Justin Denel: 3rd News from the FWC 2012

Hi All !
Here is the video of the day 3 with a lot of action of me:



ciao
Justin
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Lion Production : lionproduction.fr facebook.com/LionProduction
07 78 81 21 20

NEW CROSSING RECORD FOR JULIEN KERNEUR



Julien Kerneur is training in St. Barth looking to the incoming racing season, and in the meanwhile he diceded to try to beat the Bruno Sroka Crossing record St. Barth - St. Martin that was 48 minutes.

For this challenge Julien and his friend Enguerand used the new RRD K-Race 70 and Addiction MKIII.
At the end of the day Julien scored a new record, linking the 2 islands in 46' 02", while his friend makes it in 55'

Very well done guys!!!


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Grand Départ demain matin avec enguerrand :
Demain , nous allons essayer de battre le record de Bruno Sroka, pour la traverser de St Barth jusqu'à St Martin, le record actuelle est de 48min, on espère bien le faire tomber !
Nous serons équipé des dernières RRD K-Race 70 et des kites Addiction 2012 !
Départ prévus vers 11h pour une arrivé vers 11h ???

Record battue aujourd hui pour la traverser st barth jusqu a st martin avec un temps de 46min02 pour moi et un peu plus de 55min pour Enguerand ! Journée exceptionnel !!!

Julien

[johnskye.com News Blog] China

I just got back for a quick trip to China to visit the RRD sail factory. Really interesting to see it all working and fully understand the complete process. Unbelievable how organised it all is, splitting the sails into each individual panels, printing each panel, and then piecing it all together to make the beautiful sails that we can go and buy. The guys there are so good at what they do! Also I was very pleasantly surprise by the working conditions. The image I had was nothing like how it really was. Very large open work place, and nicer conditions than when I worked in a Gillette factory many years ago. I was there to work on the new range of sails which are looking fantastic.
Only problem with all this extra work and travel is finding time to keep fit, so check out the newly developed fitness work station. I am actually peddling away as I write this! Now I just need to make it portable!


The ultimate in keep fit work stations!

RRD proto types being put together on the factory tables.

The new Skin Harness's lined up reedy for packaging


The screen prints used for the sail graphics.

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Justin DENEL ! 2nd News FWC !

Hi,
Some new pics from Fuerte Wawe Classic...
All my pics are there : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3439828077512.2156513.1324848058&type=3
ciao
Justin
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Lion Production : lionproduction.fr facebook.com/LionProduction



Justin DENEL ! News FWC !


Hi
Some news of the FWC…A couple of days ago was the first day of official competition in MAJANICHO ! I am in the team 1 with Iballa MORENO, Dario ODJEDA and Tom HARTMAN… 

I finished 2nd in my heat in spite of bad conditions with a falling wind (Result Heat 4: 1st Federico
Infantino, 2nd Justin Denel 3rd Francisco Garcia 4th Albert Ferroni ). 

My team is also second of the competition for the moment ! Stay tunned !
Some nice pictures from Eric Bellande are attached with the mail.
Best regards
Justin
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Lion Production : lionproduction.fr facebook.com/LionProduction



Wednesday 21 March 2012

Barbados - Neal Gent


"just got back from an amazing honeymoon in barbados, which just happened to coincide with the best season for wind and waves in the last decade!! managed to score decent wind and waves to kite with
every day for three weeks!! this is a seriously undervisited spot!
even managed to find a little point break that i mostly had to myself for down-the-line riding!! had a chance to get on two of the new waveboards in all sorts of conditions.

the Asso is definitely the 'go-to' board when it's lighter and smaller, mushy conditions. it planes super early, and its got enough volume to make the lulls easy, but a performance tail that still lets you make some pretty good turns. it does feel like a pretty big board underfoot once you're going, but once you realise you need to move the feet around a little more than on a gunny board, you can really pull out all the turns and hit pretty heavy sections just as well as most brands high performance boards. it's gonna be a serious summer south coast board for those classic sea breeze 9m sessions when everyone on a twintip is having to resort to a 12m or bigger!!


when it does get bigger and heavier the Maquina offers custom board performance with decent pads and fittings and bombproof construction. the narrower outline, especially in front of your feet, means you can really get vertical in the critical section of the wave without having to worry about the board losing its grip just where you need it most. the tail shape will let anyone throw some spray or slide to their hearts content. They get going easily thanks to the rocker line and stiffness.

have had the religion II for a while now, and i can't understand why anyone would want a different kite in waves!!! the power is delivered sooo smoothly so you can deal with the improved low end even if it
gets up while you're out. they definitely seem more stable than last year when you're overpowered. the silly turning speed remains fantastic, and the construction is so much better than any other surf kite!! all that's amazing, and just makes riding much easier, but i reckon the best bit of all is just how fast you can relaunch these things when you cock it up!!! on the big days its all too easy to concentrate on the lip a bit more than usual and drop the kite, but when you can just pull on one of the back lines and then with a bit of trimming launch even from straight downwind in seconds, it just gives you so much confidence to go harder and later at the section!! this is a smiling kite!!! you just can't stop grinning at the performance you can get out of yourself with a religion II backing you up!!'