Early in the morning we arrived on the island. So we still had a lot of time to check out the spots. The next days it will be windy and the waves as high as today – i like! Yesterday we had the first session on the water with 30° degrees, boardshorts and easy 15 knots at the north shore. Here are some pics from the north shore…

Hey folks, I’m back on the road. Just chilling at the railway station and wait for the next train to the middle of Germany. The plan is to be on the waku to ride the first session tomorrow.  Perhaps we are lucky again to witness one of these very random perfect days wiht blue sky, fresh powder and wind.  So far so good, hopefully a lot of good pictures are following. cu on the highest mountain in Middle Germany…

Today we had newly fallen snow. Instead of standing in a line at the lift we decided to ascend a local mountain to get into untouched powder…

On Saturday I met my brother and some friends to enjoy a few good days in the alps. It was just insane. 30 centimeters of powder on my first day back in the snow. I’m loving it. At first we went on some hikes to get into snowboarding again after the long summer season. We found a sweet lip to use as a take off, and started out the season with an epic kicker session. My brothers grabs in front of the backdrop of the Starnberger See and my first Backflip 180 in black and white. Yesterday it began to warm up again. So we decided to switch the underground from snow to ice. We had a lot of fun climbing up a huge frozen waterfall.

Some weeks ago we had the chance to interview one of Germanys best kiteboarders, Jan Schiegnitz (”Shigi”). He is a member of the Windfinder Kitesurf Team and is sponsored by Liquid Force, NPX, Schwerelosigkite and Dandie. He has also released a calendar with beautiful shots from Germany’s best kiters – would make a perfect christmas present, go to justkite.de and have a look! click the pic

The new Envy is finally available. This kite is so much fun. I have never flown a kite which is so stable, so easy to control and offers so much versatility for easy cruising, wakestyle and freestyle. The Envy is a blast from the first moment on, and will never get in the way of your progress. That’s most importantly, able to enjoy your time on the water. For me thats it, what it is all about. Check out the new Envy. It pays to buy good kites.

Last spring I spend a weekend on the Wasserkuppe, which was absolutely unique. We call the highest mountain in Middle Germany tenderly “Waku”.  The name stands for incredible fast weather changes, strong winds and the place to be for snowkiting. We were damned lucky to witness one of these very random perfect days: 20 knots, blue sky and fresh powder. We took photos with three external flashlights. My feet felt like after a marathon. But it made so much fun to do  540s, rodeo flips, inverted rolls… over the kicker, that we continued the session the half night!
So far we are planing the next trip. If you wanna see already one of the sickest photos. check the new Justkite calendar. A few days ago I have been with Jens in the alps, but unfortunatly we had no wind,  so we produced some funny pics of the new LF snowboard.

Jan Schiegnitz wurde bei der Kitesurf-Trophy 2009 Dritter und zeigte grandiose Performances. Im Winter geht’s für “Shigi” ins andere Element:  Powder. Ein Kite ist aber natürlich trotzdem immer mit im Gepäck. Er erzählt von dem europaweiten Projekt www.justkite.de und … more www.sport2.de