my bruised toe

"training for the kta" and the actual KTA resulted to a limping me. both my feet are bruised and it hurts like crazy, well not really. its just annoying, especially on the left toe. uhhh. i also have a deep cut on my right pinky toe i am nursing now. i only made 1 race and my foot just cant handle the pain anymore :( o well there is always a next time. as for the freestyle, it was really... nerve racking..whew. the level of the girls were so high and its been really good for everyone except for me, my lines got tangled on a buoy on my 2nd heat on the FIRST minute, it resulted to my kite looping for a while until i gave up and pulled the release...o well til next time.

but in the end it was about the experience, the fun and personal challenges you face in a competition arena.

congrats to all the winners.

so its healing time as there is no wind for 2day, we are waiting for some wind for the 23rd Boracay Funboard Cup which started today. crossing our fingers.

today was a perfect windless day for a while as we just had our closing party for the KTA - Boracay stop.

i might say am getting a hang of this competitions and i think i just needed the initial experience to actually start doing it "properly" now.

PS: harness your craft and the best. so you dont have to pull a lady macbeth just to outstand from the rest. X

kisses.

photo by katya kaylani

PSS: my macbook is in the ICU. so am using dre's computer now to type this. haha. come visit me at Dos Mestizos, i am here almost everynight from 6-10pm/ cheers

Rediscovering Kiteboarding

hej all,

happy new year to everyone! this is my first official 2012 post because my black macbook finally gave up on me after 4 years? something like that.

am a bit sad about it, as i really loooove my black macbook and i will never be able to get a new one just like that :(

its been really windy everyday and am overpowered always on a 7m. its good and bad in both ways. in some way its good because i don,t unhook and this makes me be more creative in my hooked in freestyle tricks which is actually going quite well for me and my shoulder as of the moment.

but yea at the end of the day, you dont really want to be riding overpowered all the time, now am nursing 3 cuts in my feet, a bruised foot from hitting my board and a bruised up thumb from my hand hitting my IDS system at times.

but everything else is good and all is well. i just wish my computer was still alive so i can process some pictures for all of you to see.

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am using anton's computer for now when he is not editing videos

just sneaked in a few minutes to update you all

love and kisses for 2012 X

everyone is arriving as the KTA starts in 3 days !!! goodluck to all of us!

happy and windy Boracay X

my mom warned me about boys like you

hej all,
hope everyone is having a blast this holiday season.
am in boracay as of the moment, and this is actually the first time i spent Christmas here.

the parties have been good so far but am still waiting for the big NYE party.

the wind has also been blasting that i cannot even go out on my 7m anymore. lets see if i can get a hold of a 5.5 and do some big airs.

am enjoying my downtime so much and the events of the year 2011 has been really awesome.

december has been very productive workwise but been really lacking on the personal side of things as i have been really really busy to catch up with friends and family but i was able to think a lot about what has been going on with my life as of the moment.

PS: the ego is a bad thing if it's circumference is twice as much as your normal head size.
and people that are out there to deliberately destroy your ego and self esteem is not worth even a second of your time..trust me you are better off hanging out with yourself.

here are some pics from windy union bay, caticlan/boracay :)



and the test shoot for our slider. yes it needs some more work i know hehe

WONW 2011 wraps up

its been a fun and challenging 10days for me here in CWC both in the Jam and in my life in general.
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First of all battling a recurring shoulder injury which actually made me more focused on my riding and made me more careful.
and yes people the shoulder is stronger than ever and am really happy about that.


its also nice to know that even if you and your friends see each other once to twice a year theyre still the funny bunch of mofos that youve always known and they always got your back no matter what. and because of that am planning up my whole year ahead already to see these people, i think it would be much more worth it than what i did this last year.

its much more worth it than spending a lot of time with a group of people who doesnt even care about your feelings, support your ambition, or just simply include you in plans and conversations.


i am also glad i got A LOT of shots from the winch park and some gopro stuff but most of them have watermarks as usual.



but anyways here are some excerpts from the event.











congrats to brandon sheid, sam light, tom court and aaron hadlow for doing well again in the WONW jam.

til next year guys X

updating

it's been fun here in the cable as always and its really good to ride with
the crew cause they really push your riding and filming too.

ive managed to get some shots off the winch today
here's a screenie.


hoping to get more sun today to get good footy.

As always the parties are fun, tonight is gonna be the Team Duke Poker Tournament
eat.sleep.wake.party
WIND or NO WIND style