Mario Rodwald - a German Kiteboarder

The Pkra just finished and all in all we had a lot of fun again and we saw sick action on the water! On friday we didn´t had wind so it was just chilling at the beach and playing PS3. The next day the wind came back again and I wanted to clim up in the Doubles. First I did quite ok against Maciek Kozerski and after I was in the with the Spanisch local Danny Rodriguez.

In the end I landed a Richmann (Kiteloop+double backrotation+Handlepass) so I was happy with that one! My heat against Jule I did quite the same and I advanced into the next one. Jule did quite a lot of Switch tricks, but the judges prefered my kite position.

Last but not least the worldchampion throw me out. I did quite ok: normal passes, switch, Kiteloop HP and double pack pass. So in the Freestyle I finished 9th. Aaron ripped in all his heats and came up to the finals!

The last heats were on Sunday with 9 meter kites. Aaron did a really nice megaloop unhook HP and in the final it all seemed that he would win. Then Kevin nailed the sickest kiteloop 7 - so he is now first in the ranking.

Later that day they decided to start a best trick contest, judged on height and diffuculty. In the first heat I landed a Kungfu pass to blind so i won that one. The next 7 minutes I had to do a good move against Aaron, Mike, Alvaro and some others In the last minute I did my first Kungfu double pass, so also got that won.

In the final the wind came already over the mountain and I changed from 10 to 12 meter. In the end I got a gust and did a really high Kungfu pass and while riding out agian I just heard the crowd screaming  another time while Kevin did a sick double pass. Actually he couldn´t land it….so first in best trick!!!!

Double Eliminations Result:

Men:

1. Kevin Langeree (Naish, Netherlands)

2. Aaron Hadlow (Flexifoil, UK)

3. Alvaro Onieva (Best, Spain)

4. Mikael Blomvall (Nobile, Sweden)

Women:

1. Gisela Pulido (Slingshot, Spain)

2. Karolina Winkowska (Naish, Poland)

3. Bruna Kajiya (Best, Brazil)

4. Joanna Litwin (Slingshot, Poland)

The winners of the Big Air Best Trick competition were:

Men:

1. Mario Rodwald (North, Germany) for a high handle pass front mobe to blind

2. Kevin Langeree (Naish, Netherlands) for a high handle pass mobe

3. Aaron Hadlow (Flexifoil, UK) for a high handle pass front mobe