Have a read of this!? The mag pretty much makes Andy out to be a tosser. The editor sounds like a bit of a toss to me..Have a look from page 80 onwards. Long article dedicated to smashing Andy and blowing Aaron. Check out the photo captions.."Andy Yates...shhh dont mention Aaron"
www.iksurfmag.com/issue25/
Wow thats rich coming from that abomination of a magazine (if you can even call it that)... That mag is the biggest piece of sh!t in existence, they have little to no idea about anything kite or boardsport related.
Long live Andy!
F@ck iksurfmag!
What gets me is they talk of Andy throwing his toys from the pram and yet dedicate 18 pages of their mag bitching about it. Who's really throwin the toys around. Christ, in their own words, get over yourselves people, noone gives a sh1t about your mag.
Hey you know I can see their point.
Maybe it was a little unprofessional of the mag to publish an article like that, and editor must be a bit of a toss, but.....
IMO Aaron's been around for years and has great style. Andy kicks ass and was the best rider on tour this year. Simple.
I hope he comes back next year, then we'll put Andy to the test
Log on to the mag's forum and have a say.
Piece of sh1t journalism and sour grapes.
Seems like sour grapes on the mags part because Andy didn't want to play their game-sounds like they're the ones who threw "their toys out of the pram" and are "bitching" - pretty unprofessional and crappy way to treat the current world champ - dump on him and do a 'dirt piece' and yearn for Hadlow "who always makes time for the kite media and is always happy to pose for a photoshoot" - gawd - sycophantic leach media.
Andy knows what's up. Why would he pose for that piece of crap and give them the honour (if you will). Best thing he ever did was deny them.
I wish my facebook page "IKsurfmag is a piece of sh!t" didn't get taken down (because they complained) because it would have even more members now, that's for sure.
I guess this is what happens when you get people running a mag that can hardly even kite. All in it for the money. Same dude tried to start a snow mag but got denied... one word rookie.
I thought this mag sucked originally just for the sh!ty pictures, now I'm glad this happened because more people think this mag sucks for other reasons to haha.
journalists are kiters?
journalists don't do sports at an elite level......
they just report what they see and ask.
i just read that mag for the first time.
pretty normal journalism.
in my 30+ years in windsports rowdy, i've never known a mag to be run for any length of time by a "competent" participant.
go figure!
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I'm all for Andy Yates, and hope he goes on and keeps winning!!!!..............
But Andy has a made a BIG mistake, with the way he has dealt with this magazine. I don't like the way IKSurfmag have put this article out, but all they've done is amplify what every non-Australian kiter is thinking??????
That Andy Yates' PKRA Tour win was the softest so far. Irrelevant of whether Hadlow was there, Langeree had to drop out through injury. Kevin Langeree was the man to beat this year, and the only thing that beat him was his own ankle!!!
Wow I just sat and read the entire article before commenting. What a complete load of balls. That was some of the worst dummy spitting I've ever seen in print. So Andy didn't want to be involved, so the **** what?
What a complete pantload. Not that I could ever really be bothered reading this "mag" but I certainly will make a point not to from now on. On;y in the internet age do these knobs get a chance to spout off.
This article is just typical journalism, and Andy Yates has fueled this article............
A PKRA Champ/Competitor who doesn't want to be compared to Aaron Hadlow is like a Crack addict not wanting to be compared with Charlie Sheen!!!
well andy is still getting good publicity out of it - how many pages was the article? any publicity is good publicity. and four or five pages mentioning only himself and hadlow has got to be a good thing.
