congrats bro!
how you liking germany, still no beer, not even in the jacuzzi, haha
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Lewis Crathern (Slingshot, GBR) landed a railey to blind, blind judge, low mobe and FS3 defeating North rider Thomas Paris (FRA) who also landed tricks such as 313, blind judge 3, kgb-180 and front mobe but was disqualified due to a line entanglement. Crathern advanced to the second round of heats where Naish team rider Alex Pastor (ESP) eliminated him. Pastor moved on to a heat against Mike Blomvall (Nobile, SWE) defeating him due to more variety of tricks as well as powered switch tricks, which would then send him to a tough heat against Slingshot rider Andy Yates (AUS).
Yates proved that he wasn’t going down without a fight defeating Alberto Rondina (Cabrinha, ITA) as well as Cabarete Champion Ariel Corniel (Ozone, DOM) and North rider Reno Romeu (BRA) in separate heats today. Yates executed his tricks with more power and technical style. Amongst some of his tricks were a front mobe to blind, and kgb to blind. Yates would later lose his winning streak against Slingshot rider Youri Zoon (NED) in heat # 33landing him fourth place in today’s competition.
It was a big day for Slingshot Rider Youri Zoon (NED) who defeated five time world champion Aaron Hadlow (Flexifoil, GBR) in a 4-1 decision. Zoon made an overall impression on the judges as he executed each trick with great style, power and most importantly kite positioning. Zoon forged his way into the finals against fellow Dutchman and yesterdays first place single freestyle winner Kevin Langeree (Naish, NED). It would be a final 5-0 decision in favor of Langeree due to better execution of tricks and variety. Some of the most outstanding tricks executed by Langeree was a one-handed kgb grab, front mobe to blind, and a one handed 313 with a grab
Hey Damo
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Hey Sir Rowdy
The Trick that they are explaining for Langeree is when he unhooks hangs on with one arm and lets the kiteloop and does a KGB at the same time.
This is opposed to the standard kiteloop KGB in which you initiate the kiteloop with broom handle and then suck the power up and then go for the pass.
Suppose they just trying to emphasis that that the kiteloop is all one handed. i.e. the increased difficutly and strength required.
Not really a trick you can explain in wakeboard terms as you can't kiteloop on a boat.![]()
Apart from that you might be right on everything else - ![]()
^^^ I second that.
People do one handed stuff on cable and boat as well, but its not called anything different and usually they are just doing a grab right from the start.
Claiming "one handed" tricks is the most kooky euro thing I have ever heard.
Nah it makes, sense this is not wakeboarding we can call it what ever we want. KGB 180 makes perfect sense, its a kgb with air pass then instead of spinning to blind you just land toeside, kinda like an incomplete KGB. I been working on a one handed KGB Zero, basically same as you standard kgb and make the pass, then you pass back the other way and land heelside, will get some footage up soon.
I have also been working on a low mobe late pass to blind judge where you rotate back to blind and then do an air pass (also kinda like a incomplete backmobe).
EDIT: here some footage of some of the crew training doing some KGB zeros
As someone that has come to kiteSURFING as a surfer-to me, all this stuff is absolutely irrelevant and just a buncha' wanking squiggly wiggly crap-they might as well be behind a stink boat as a kite.
Having said that-glad to see an Aussie as one of the better squiggly wiggliers.....
surfers do rodeo flips.... that is a mobe essentially. But yeah i see your point, I don't wanna see "squiggles" either.
p.s. Andy's shout next time you see him.