Top unstrapped video. Makes me want to go out and get off my twinny.
Top stuff. - Good promo video as well
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He needs a good haircut and needs to stay on the wave -
Going out on the flat and then banging a lip looks spectacular - but id rather watch a more surfing approach -
Nice Vid,
I like his style and versatility,
Unstrapped on the waves where it suits and then strapped when he wants to hit it big and bust out.
Going frontside on the lefts and then frontside on the rights,
thats got to be the ultimate if you really have all the skills ......
to adjust your riding and technique, to best suit the waves on the day - and then make it look like thats the way you ride all the time.
and then to do this for most of us, is such a challenge that the sport will never get boring as you are always trying to master that new skill.
Good stuff-shame the boards are so ridiculously expensive-that 511, would make a great travel board for me, combining a surfboard and kite surfboard.
Felix rips........ strapped or unstrapped ..........and he carries everything with a beautiful style and flow which only video and not still photos can show us.
He had dedicated the last decade of his life to one crazy obsessional idea which is surfing waves with a kite as best he can, and it shows.
It is shame some criticise his style as not 'surfing' enough, well 2 points:
Firstly feel free to criticise when you can ride better than him, otherwise shut up. Secondly, I think that is exactly how Mick Fanning or Parko would ride if you put a kite in their hands, and the skills to use it. Power + Speed has made them the best surfers in the world, give them more and they would lap it up.
With Kite-surfing, Speed and power is there on tap so use it..........or can you handle it? The better the surfer the more they look like kiters in the waves. No-one should try and dumbdown kiting because they reckon it doesnt look like surfing enough. In my experience that leads to a lot of guys parking their kite, stalling in a poo-stance with their heads stuck under the white water ........then claiming they got barrelled. In anyone books that looks like s--t. This is Kite-surfing not surfing.
nothing worse than ****ty little waves and someone sitting on the shoulder if only I had a firewire surfboard![]()
He deadset rips he is taking kitesurfing to where it should be going what surfers cant do, we have the speed lets use it and abuse it , those bottom turns are sic who wouldnt want to kite like felix. Id give my right nut, i heard you can get replacements !![]()
Nice!
Can't wait to get just a litle better on my surfboard and get into some swell.
I was quite suprised with how easy it was to stay on the board without straps (this is on flat water by the way!) I'm sure swell will be heaps different!
Great vid.
Hubba hubba. Noice vid.
I ride twinnies in the surf (mush) but that is deluxe to watch.
Good to see some longer sequences/sections as anyone can look good smashing one lip, then - cut the vid - goin nowhere afterwards. Not so here.
Speed, power, lots of spray and... kn fun like all kiting (SB/Twinny or otherwise) should be. ![]()