PKRA Holland - RACE 1

First day for Racing at PKRA HOLLAND. The wind drops after the start and our Julien Kerneur struggle with his RRD Addiction 13 finishing in 7th position.
Forecast for tomorrow are pretty good so he hope he will discard this bad result...

Stay tuned for more news...

Dan Sweeney: My First Windsurfing Competition

"Last week I competed in my first Windsurfing competition at the 2nd round of the UK Slalom championships. - I went along to support the RRD UK Crew and also to compete in the Blast event to see where my level was at. I spent a few months windsurfing before with Ant and Nik Baker but I managed to get some Windsurfing in under my belt while in St.Lucia with 2Elements RRD Centre over the winter.
We completed 20 races over Saturday and I'm stoked with my result. I won every race.!
Next stop is BSA Worthing (My home spot) -Now I'm going to get some training in, Take my windsurfing more seriously alongside my Kitesurfing and I now have my own equipment - I'm going to compete in the Am Men and then I'm off to Norfolk for the 2nd round of the UK Pro Freestyle Kite event where I'll be fighting for the UK Tittle.

Big thanks to my sponsors for supporting me! RRD, ION, K-66 & Baker Academy - Lets see what happens this year on both tours!."

Dan Sweeney
RRD UK Team Manager

Mathieu: update for the blog

Sup, Kite, exploration and coverage. RRD life in paradise. Enjoy this

update.

Aloha, Matéo

Something to sweeten your morning email

Cover page on the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper a nice RRD
Obsession on the way to ride under the Golden Gate bridge!
Enjoy!

Evan
Live2kite.com
Largest Kitesurfing shop in California

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Wow that's real cool !

Feel very international today, proud to be there !

This is thanks to your work , Evan !

Roberto

Sent from RR's iPhone

Bram Bast: New Video

Hey
Here it is new Bram Bast movie.



Hope you like it!
Kind Greetings,
Bram
Bram Bast
www.BramBast.com

Luke McGillewie: 2 May

ciao guys!

winter is here in full force its been super cold lately with no wind

or waves!

finally today we had some good wind and waves i managed to get out for 30min before the wind dropped of...

I got some pics!

Luke

Seb Garat: News Mexico.

Hi
Last Week, I was in Playa del Carmen, in Mexico during the MINI Kiteboard World Cup. Freestylers Alberto Rondina and Myself been invited by the local crew to make some Freestyle show between the Races.


It was not that windy but we still be able to ride 2 days and make some awesome pictures with the crystal clear blue water of Playa Del Carmen.


Watch out also the pics where I seat on Julien's Board while I'm riding ! Pretty Funny.




I'm already back to France now, and Festikite starts tomorrow at home. I'll be there for Kite Demo's and RRD Kites and Boards test !


Cheers !
Seb

Peppe Esposito: Kite Camp

AAA 

Freestyle Stage with Peppe Esposito coming soon....

Very exclusive and limited... don't miss it!!!

Julien Kerneur: PKRA Mexico

Hi,
I was in Mexico, Playa del Carmen, from 19 till 22 of April to attend the first PKRA racing event of the year. All the best riders of the world were here.




We had 7 though races along 3 days of racing, with very physical runs of 20-25 minutes each. The race courses where pretty short, but we had to complete 3 laps before to cross the finish line!!!


I the end I reach the 5th Overall position, after a rough fight against the USA riders and against my good friend Olivier Dansin.


Just to let you have an idea, during the race I was always challenging to reach the top positions, and often I found myself in 2nd or 3rd position during the 2nd lap of the course!


Next weeks I'll be again at home in France to attend the national championship and then I'll go to Austria to attend the KTE race event before to challenge again the USA team during the second PKRA event in Holland.

See you
Julien

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Salut

Du 19-22 avril se déroulais la première étape du tour PKRA racing Tout les meilleurs coureur était présent sur l'étape du Mexique à playa del carmen .

On a pu valider 7 manches sur 3 jours de courses , des manches assez longue puisque nous mettions 20-25 min. Le parcourt était quand a lui assez court, nous faisions 3 tours avant
l'arrivée !

Je finis 5eme après la rude bataille avec les américain et mon pote Olivier. Au fur et a mesure des manches, j'étais très serré avec la tête de course, avec des belles manches de 2-3eme au 2eme tours de course !

Les 2 prochaines semaine, je serais en France pour la première étapes du championnat de France , puis en Autriche pour le KTE, avant d'affronter a nouveau la team US en Hollande pour le PKRA

Voilà

Julien

PKRA MEXICO Day 1 - Racing Begins in Playa Del Carmen

Day 1 is gone. Very light wind. Only one race finished. Nothing interesting to tell.

Julien Kerneur was little stiff at his first real event of the year and and after the start and some mistakes he was fighting for the 3rd and 4th position for 3 laps. But in the end he missed the arrival line and end this first race in 10th position.

We are pretty sure he can pull out better performances on the next races...

More to come... stay connected...

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Il n y a rien d intéressant a dire pour la 1ere journée.. 1seul manche dans du light , j ai fais plusieurs erreur au debut , apres 3 tour je suis 4eme , et je rate la ligne d arriver , je finis 10:(!!

Ca ira mieux aujourd hui ..
J en suis presque sur !

Julien

RRD Air Sup video of the day: Roberto Style

And here we are... with the official video featuring Roberto himself an his family enjoying the latest RRD SUP toy....

Enjoy!

Castel Romain: 2nd Junior @ Mondial Du Vent 2012

RRD rider Castel Romain scored a great second place on the Junior Ranking at the Mondial Du Vent held in Leucate last week...

Bonjour! Voila un message rapide des 3 jours au mondial du vent :
Une première journée ventee, la chance n étais pas avec moi ce jour la , je me fais emmellé la voile deux fois donc je paire beaucoup de place au classement .
Un deuxième jour avec 15 , 25 nouds équipée de la 11 addiction je fais des manches de 6 , 8 , 9 au général ! Cette journée ma permis de reprendre des points au classement !
Un troisième jour avec 45 nouds , une seul manche couru car au niveau sécurité ces conditions sont dangereuse !
Au final je termine 2 eme juniors et 15 au classement général malgres les mésaventures du premier jour!

Bonne réception !
Romain

Dan Sweeney: Windsurfing session after work at Sea Sprite (RRD UK)

Hi guys,

Just a quick update from this week in the UK,

We've had some amazing conditions on the south coast and after work at Sea Sprite (RRD UK) Myself and mighty whitey went for a windsurfing session down Shoreham with Nik Baker.

Conditions were strong - 4.2 weather and we got some cool shots.

I'd did 3 months worth of Windsurfing in St.Lucia over the winter and I managed to get a handful of sessions last year but I'm loving it now and it goes hand in hand with my kitesurfing!

Cheers guys, Hope all is well

Best Regards,

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

Official RRD test center Mexico

A few pictures from the new school Kitesurf Mexico (official RRD test center) in Playa del Carmen. Playa (as is known among locals) is considered the "pearl of the Mexican Caribbean" and the sport of kitesurfing is growing exponentially. The school operates on a beautiful private Caribbean beach (one of the last stretches of virgin beach in Playa del Carmen) with a flat sandy bottom. The beach offers a flat water area (protected by a reef) and a small waves area.

Kitesurf Mexico is waiting for you ! www.kitesurfmexico.com