November 2008 Archives

Official results found here: http://www.kiteboardpro.com/pdf/men_overall_ranking.pdf

Congrats to Emanuel (Noño) Rondon for his efforts, he followed the tour and competed in almost every event and discipline, he finished consistently in the top 10.

Emanuel is also reigning Dominican Champion and Master of The Ocean for 2008.



7th   Emanuel Rondon, EH
30th  Ariel Corniel, EH
37th  Luis Alberto Peralta, EH

TKS - THE KITESCHOOL ARGENTINA

DISTRIBUIDOR EH KITEBOARDING

Esta ubicada en la zona de Martinez a orillas del Rio de la Plata, en el predio Aguila Club  Calle Elcano 1302.

La escuela esta homologada por la AAK (Asociacion Argentina de Kite)

Instructores certificados

Cursos básicos - intermedios y avanzados 

Laguna de Gomez JUNIN

Juanma

 

AAK - PRIMER FECHA DEL RANKING ARGENTINO 2008 / 09

 

Durante el fin de semana del 1 y 2 de Noviembre pasado se realizó la primer fecha del Ranking Argentino de Kite 2008 / 09 en la sede de la Escuela Municipal de Kite de Junín, con el auspicio del Gobierno de Junín y de Awinoba (Asociación de Windsurf y Kite del Noroeste de Buenos Aires) y el patrocinio del comercio local WINDSTORE. Las marcas Red Bull, Mormaii y Bodacious apoyaron el evento con importantes premios para los participantes.

 

 

El spot, asiento de la escuela de kite, ha sido inaugurado en Octubre de 2007 luego de que las autoridades municipales le solicitaran a la Asociación un Informe Técnico sobre la factibilidad deportiva del lugar. En esa oportunidad el acontecimiento fue acompañado de un torneo de kite, de similares características a las del presente. Cabe destacar que en la AAK no consta información acerca de la existencia de alguna otra escuela de kite, dependiente de un gobierno municipal o similar, en ningún otro lugar nacional o internacional. 

El campeonato se rodeó de una gran expectativa de parte de los riders, no solo por ser el primero del Ranking que se inicia, sino también por las expectativas de viento que no eran las mejores.

En la primera jornada del día sábado, los riders que fueron llegando durante la mañana le dieron un especial colorido a un cielo totalmente despejado,  mientras se desarrollaban los preparativos y se tomaban las inscripciones. A las 13:30, hora en que estaba previsto el inicio de las series, cesó el viento y los deportistas armaron un slider con un poste de palmera, con el que llevaron adelante una sesión de wave - skate practicando maniobras de deslizamiento sobre el slider.

El sábado a la noche, el Coordinador de Deportes y Turismo de Junin y los miembros de la Comisión Directiva de AWINOBA agasajaron a los riders con una cena de camaradería, durante el transcurso de la cual se terminaron de delinear las actividades de la siguiente jornada.

El domingo amaneció con vientos que sobrepasaban los 20 nudos, provenientes del Sudeste. A las 8:00 AM ya se podía apreciar el nivel de actividad, con gran cantidad de kites volando. A las 9 en punto se comenzó con las series de la Clase Freestyle , categoría Intermedia. Se fueron sucediendo unas tras otras con una duración de 6 minutos e intervalos ínter seriales de 2 minutos. Se pudieron apreciar las excelentes performances de tres deportistas que debutaban en la categoría, provenientes de Amateurs, Bautista Asseretto Farroni (F-one), Martín Issouribehere (EH CABARETE) y Juan Manuel Adan Tolomei (EH CABARETE).

 

Una vez culminadas, comenzaron las baterías de la categoría mayor PRO. Se pudieron apreciar dos estilos similares, de una impresionante potencia a baja altura y con movimientos rápidos y rasantes. Los jóvenes deportistas (19 años), uno de ellos el actual Campeón Argentino (Juan Canale) y el otro, el tercero del Ranking 2007 / 08 (Marcos Mafia), concitaron la atención del público presente y de sus propios compañeros. Hubo un invitado debutante, ganador de Intermedia, que participó en esta categoría, terminando ubicado en el tercer puesto. Del mismo modo, quien resultara ganador del cuarto puesto, Juan Manuel Adan Tolomei, estrenó la categoría con un muy buen desplazamiento y repertorio de maniobras de Wake Style.

Al cierre el turno fue de los Amaturs, quienes compitieron en escasas baterías debido a que siendo las 14:00 el viento giró y se puso de tierra, impidiendo la finalización de las series programadas.

 

 

Las posiciones finales fueron:

            Freestyle Pro:

Primero: Juan Canale (Slingshot)

Segundo: Marcos Mafia (Slingshot)

Tercero: Bautista Asseretto Farroni (F-One)

                        Cuarto: Juan Manuel Adan Tolomei (EH Cabarete)

 

            Freestyle Intermedia:

                        Primero:  Bautista Asseretto Farroni (F-One)

                        Segundo:  Martín Issouribehere (EH Cabarete)

                        Tercero:  Santiago Mujica (Slingshot)

                        Cuarto:  Alejandro Baldoví (EH Cabarete)

 

 

           

Find more nice views of the EH Egypt location

EH Team México at Isla Blanca from David Furchtgott on Vimeo.
Day at the office! from David Furchtgott on Vimeo.

We have been very busy... to start we will have 5 centers in the Dominican Republic and will expand to most kite beaches in the world, In the planning stages we have EH Tarifa, Brazil, Egypt.

Happy High Wind Center is one of 2 EH Kiteboarding test centers in Cabarete bay.
The club is part of Villa Taina a 4 star hotel and is run by Franz a long time Cabarete veteran and experienced host. The fully insured Happy high wind center caters to windsurfers and Kiteboarders and has several multilingual certified instructors.

Downwind trip video compiled by by David Furchtgott, http://www.freestyleplaya.com/ 

Here is a preview of the Cabarete ProTeam 9M Ripper, this kite is based on the Ripper.  The riders themselves will be promoting and selling this kite and the profits of of the sale oft his kite is pooled in to a fund that will help pay for the competition expenses of a selected group of Cabarete riders.

Johanna Dory(championne de belgique)

www.kitesurf-magazine.co.uk



FLYING.
Setting up the Rippehr reveals a conspicuous lack of artifice and ornamentation or would that be attention to detail? Starting with the bar, the spinn ing chicken loop has a pull pin safety which while easy enough to release is really only easy to reassemble on land. The leash system is neat and clever: it attaches to a metal ring that sits inside the chicken loop, which in tum runs to one of the fronl lines. There is no stopper though so once the safety is pulled or the unhooked bar is dropped, the bar shoots off UDthe lines - it' s all orettv final. And iust when we were oettino used to mini fifth lines. Because of the la'rge sized clip on the leash, it is possible to attach the leash and the chicken loop togeth er for a suicide type set up, this also gives the ability to still pull the safety and put the kite onto the leash. Which ever way, once activated , the kite flags out well and there oug ht to be very little chance of the kite going into a spin because of a rather interesting thing abou t the bridle. There are no pulleys on the front bridle, just four attachment po ints ! The back bridle has two attachment points and a single pulley each side , and together the whole lot is very short, thin, clean and simple. The simp licity continues with no one pump (though there are stopper balls), and util itarian wear patches on the strut ends and where the wing tips sweep in. Absent too, are any of the sort of flashy logos we have become used to that espouse every last marketing gimmick hidden in a kite.

RIDING
Despite, or rather in spite of this, the EH holds a commanding presence in the sky. It has a stark, high aspect super flat, parallel profile that looks very tough. And a surprise at the bar too : the control is direct, light, urgent, and comes with a very short bar throw for a flat kite. Encouraged I hit the water in the gusty south winds and the EH revealed a chillingly impassive nature towards the lumpy winds i.e. gusts, lumps, holes in the wind do nothing to this kite. It just carries on its track through the sky like it is on rails; another pleasant surprise! The depower throw as said is short, and doesn't depower the Rippehr as greatly as the current high depower bridled kites (although they have longer throws), however it is beautifully tuned for waveriding and the fact the power doesn't switch off keeps the pace up when carving hard into bottom turns and smacking sections out of lips. As EH say, this kite is for hardcore riding, so who cares about massive depower? And the power comes on so quickly too, this isn't a kite that you'll be sine waving up and down to keep speed up.
The upwind angle is nothing short of phenomenal but the Rippehr doesn't scream straight to the extremities of the window, instead it sits poised ready to pile even more power on. The wind range of this kite does seem to be massive. The low end efficiency of this flat simple kite is err ... another surprise and on a further session when I was proper lit in 25-30kn ots I still had inches of trimstrap to play with. Ohh, and that trim strap is very smooth to operate and thanks to the short bar throw always in easy easy reach. Another trick that the Rippehr pulls off is an uncanny ab ility to keep high tension in the lines when surting down the line towards it, we passed this kite around to a few people and they all clocked that. Unhooked with the twin tip the Rippehr seriously gets the heart pounding. Ofcourse, riding around between tricks is well civilised, but the simple old school unhooked boost is a shocker: you go up hard, high, and then it seems to yank you up even higher, even quicker. We stuck a few kiteloops and downloops in and by Christ the old ticker shot straight up to 190bpm. It takes a wide track round the sky but does it bloody quickly and, well, violently. Which of course makes looping the Rippehr so addictive.

CONCLUSION
The Rippehr defies any preconceptions that arise from its Spartan (think without garnish and very tough) build quality by basic ally blowing your socks off on the water. The kite is always 'on', the power is always a small movement of the bar away. It' s very stable, it keeps the lines light when you run towards it. It has a massive wind range to cope with the random conditions we get over here. The turning is light and connected. This makes it a cracking kite for smashing as many waves as you can find in a session. Unhooked it whips you about so fast it makek your head spin. EH have dispensed with the cosmetic and focused purely on making a kite that gets the job of wave assass ination and aggressive unhooked riding done. It's not so much a bow that flies like a C; it' s a bow that flies so completely in its own right to a giddying level. Lack of attent ion to detail? No way, this is one hell of an efficient kite - it' s all in the detail!

Very proud to announce that we are now opening a EH test center at probably the nicest beach club, Maraja, in Cabarete.

The Maraja beach club facilities has a 5 star rating and is owned operated by Antonello Canistra, a fellow kite boarder and excellent host.

These brand new  facilities include a large pool, shaded garden, beach lounge, bar, restaurant, combined with an air conditioned VIP area makes the club a nice place to bring the family and keep them happy.

The EH Test Center will be stocked with the latest gear, and will offer full service kite school and 30 unit dry storage for our guest.

Here is a preview:



Here you can see a PhotoSynth panorama.

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=b0038801-69c4-4bf1-b7fb-25e8ba25f176

We are starting to dress things up with flags etc, when I'ts all done I will build a nice page with all the info.

Maraja and EH  will take the Kite Center scene to a new level of comfort.

E

Killer new way to view sequences in 3D from MS PhotoSynth
this is wild....
Use mouse wheel to scroll, drag and slide to go to next image
this is the direct link:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=84778430-30E6-4FEE-929B-B9E05A6E92F6

                      

Our Mexican Connection, David with his guys.