Saronida Sling

i haven't updated my blog lately

due to a couple of things which includes packing up my stuff from 

Paros and come to Athens for a few days before departing.

I am really bummed that am leaving this place. i wish i can stay longer.

this whole 90day shengen visa sucksss. but o well, it can be worse.

i had a great summer, it's all that matters

and now am headed back to manila to see some old friends,

surf, kite and am really excited with the new cable parks that just opened.

wiiiih!

PS: this is my first post from the new macbook, although i have some bad news, i lost my GoPro the other day, i took it wake boarding and the rope took it. i posted the picture of the rope taking the GoPro during a crash.



Yo Za tried wake surfing which seems really dangerous since your too near the boat prop, and a good friend nicos showing some skills.

Taking photos this session was fun, having the greece landscape on the back was just perfect.

here are some pics from the Wakeboarding in Saronida.

PS: make sure you pack your fins before heading out to the ocean. and never everrrr use your GoPro without your floaty backdoor, even though you just outta do a cruise session.

See To Believe

Paros is such a beautiful spot.

i remember i had a moment of bliss a couple of weeks ago 

just cruising around the spot over sunset.

My God, it's pretty! 

So i took my GoPro out to let you see

what i see. 

Enjoy!

PS: this was a really windy day, i had to depower my 7m and was cruising fast. 

So, Ms. Anny Barlow decided to come this season to Paros too.

check out findbarlow.blogspot.com

sunshine smile

ok, so this is a small edit that anton made for me. sesshioning one afternoon infront of mangoriders, boracay ++ some stuff from WONW 2011 ( only a few clips i saved from my now dead macbook)

it's been a tough season for me with the shoulder injury which stops you from progressing and puts you back to square one all the time.

it is a humbling experience to go back to basics, learn and re-learn tricks and explore variations. its also a great reminder that you should just have fun when your out surfing. nothing more, nothing less.

its good to not do what or how the book tells you to do a trick.

steez it, poke it, grab it!

PS:

today i learned that

words are always misunderstood

whether you like it or not.

The more you educate yourself the more you understand where things come from the more obvious things become and you begin to see lies everywhere. You have to know the truth and seek the truth and the truth will set you free.

- Jordan Maxwell via Zeitgeist

thanks to everyone that supported me in this.

shot by Anton Lilljegren, Filip Coxner and Tom Court

NEXT UP: KTA Championships in Pranburi Thailand plus many more.

broken

my computer is officially dead.

its ok though, served me for 4 years i think.

but am just sad because there is so much stuff to do and am stuck with no computer

and its hard to update my blog and upload pictures.

so for now you will have to deal with kiting shots mostly as my point and shoot is also broken plus i dont have a computer to upload it with.

so here i am again updating through anton´s computer.

we didn't push through with the Vigan trip because of the schedule situation

but yes we are happy here in windy boracay.

in two days we will be in manila to paint the town red, see some friends and work a little bit.

i have a shoot with two of my favorite waterbabies.

stay tuned on how it will go.

to those in manila, hit me up and lets hang

here are some screenies from the shoot the other day

thank you

anton

uprising

it's been really busy for the last three weeks and i can say that this is the first weekend i had off since the KTA started. it was really hectic but fun at the same time. now i get to spend some time with working on my computer, the shots and also prepping up to go back to Vigan, which is ahhhmazing.

we have been traveling and shooting with the COR aka children of revolution here in boracay and union bay. we had an awesome time shooting with the jet ski, GoPro and heli, how sick is that eh? and as usual, when my riding gets better i just fuck it up again completely with the shoulder when i get to try harder stuff.

this sucks so bad.

but what to do but let it heal again, rehab and prioritize a surgery before i leave the country again.

so yeah this weekend i was just hangin with some friends and it reminded me on why i stayed and lived in boracay in the last 6-7 years of my life. and i tell you, even if its full of tourists here and there, oh it is a great place to be, great people and just good vibes if you just know where to look and where to be.

its also funny how fast the coconut express is, your gone out working 2 jobs for the last 3 weeks plus some events and don't hang around, the next thing you know is that there are rumors about you being snobbish, obnoxious, judgemental or whatever just because you dont show up because your working.. its funny how assuming and conclusive it is. i jsut wish that sometimes people are more understanding that there are other things you do in your life aside from partyingö like, sleeping, enjoying some daytime sport, doing the errands, or just simply working, to continue living a good life and get some time to kitesurf .

at the end of each day you just have to not think of what others think, because it will eventually get to you and destroy some goals and achievements you have been doing during your daily life.

don't let this things affect you, do what you love to do, what feels right and just rise above all things that bring you down.

o well, in the end i love you all X

here are some test shots from the time that a good friend and photographer was here visiting.

test photos by John Barber

PS please like my FB page if you want..hihi

here is the link

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paula-Rosales/212905082074774

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

kitemag.gr

am on kitemag.gr

you might need google translate for this one :)

click on the pic.

http://www.kitemagazine.gr/2011/07/6841/

special thanks to George Sokorelis and John Barber for the Pics X

What goes down hard, comes back up and higher!

First Post from Paros Island Greece

<3

It has been very hectic the last week being stuck in Athens with all the riots going on

AND i got robbed :(

somebody broke into my car and took my ENTIRE luggage of clothes.

Well atleast my gear is safe and my camera and laptop is still here.

So funny actually why they just stole the clothes and also even picked from the lot, they left me with me with 1 boardshort, 1 shirt and 1 dress plus my KTA wet shirt and Jersey is still there, good thang!

My books, camera charger and bad ass X-mini speaker is there though..booo.

Well now am settled in Paros and we are waiting for the wind, i had my first sesh in the Aegean sea yesterday and it was a blasttt! can't wait to have some more.

I also had a little trip to AntiParos with my housemates on the first night. It's an amazing place and its only a 10 minute ferry ride away.

PS: Our house is amazing! complete with a kitchen, a garden with a lemon three and white roses <3 so beautiful! Our neighbor has some corn, pumkin and watermelons growing in their backyard, we have devised some plans to befriend our neighbors and get some fresh veggies. wiii!

i've been eating healthy stuff here all the time. Here are some pics of my daily lunch, the veggies here are sooo dank! i usually hate carrots but now am having them everyday. so yummy.

Had some uzo with my roomie meg in our beautiful garden watching the amazing greek sunset!

After all that stress ive been through in Athens, Paros is a great breather! Life is beautiful!

and the center here is great

come visit us at Punda, Paros

http://www.paroskite.gr

PS: my shoulder is a mess and i got a package of new bathers straight from Canada. Thank god i got some stuff to wear now. hihi..

thanks <3

i miss the caveman so much :(