Gabriele Steindl: Professional Kitesurfer & Freelance Writer - Action, Lifestyle & Travels
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HAPPY NEW KITE YEAR !
Hope everyone’s had an AAAAAAWESOME ride — or should I say jump 😉 — into 2022 !!! Wow, what a year we’ve had, hey… I’m optimistic that in 2022 things in this crazy world will take a turn for the better and I wish all of you the best start and a year full of […]
WINNER “BEST TRAVEL SHORT FILM”
🏆 WINNER: BEST TRAVEL SHORT FILM 💥International Travel Film Fest 2021💥 I’m blown away 😝 hyper stoked and immensely grateful 🙏. Not only that my film was selected by already four International film festivals and thus watched by a huge number of people on the big screen 📽🍿 in multiple countries and several continents 🌏, […]
WINTER HIBERNATION
Our annual stint in the deepest Outback of Western Australia is going OFF ! Kiting, fishing, surfing…. man, I just looooooove camping 🙂 Most of you know of our big winter migration up North when the weather at home in Margaret River turns to gnarlyyy…. some of you might not. For those, here’s a super […]
SÖRF FILM FEST
I am suuuuuuuuuuper pumped to announce that my film “WAVE OF LIFE” will make it onto the BIG SCREEN in three countries as part of the SÖRF FILM FEST 2021 — Y E W !!! This OPEN AIR Film Tour kicks off on July 14th, with over 13 tour stops all across Austria, Germany and […]
REMOTE BOAT EXPLORER MISSION
Woooooohoooooooo, I’m only just back from a wild boat explorer mission off the coast of WA. Big sharks, sketchy kiting, gnarly waves, legendary fishing…. It’s been a crazy adventure to say the least 🙂 Right now, I’m working on the text to my articles about the trip and of course the photo selection. It’s going […]
YIN & YANG OF LIFE
Sooooooooo many apologies for the long absence from my blog !!! I hope you all had lovely Christmas and an amazing ride into 2021 🙂 I had a pretty different start to the new year with a massive health scare…. yep, in fact, I spent New Year’s in the emergency department of Busselton hospital, here […]
My 2021 Quiver
💥 Luckiest girl in the world 🙌💫 I’m on cloud 9 ⛅ … in kite heaven, my heart is racing, my froth levels are peaking 😝 !!! The postie just dropped this off for me: my new 2021 Duotone Kiteboarding toys, finally here with me in West Oz 🇦🇺 . In my quiver for 2021: […]
How Kiteboarding changed my Life
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Super stoked with this beautiful feature in the latest issue of The Kite Mag! I wrote this article “How kiting changed my Life” for the REFLECTIONS section of the mag, and I reckon it’s a goodie ☺. The amazing photos of this six page spread are by my photo […]
Desert Sabbatical
Yeeeeeeeeeeew, it’s this time of the year: Days and days of packing, looooooooong hours — in fact days — of driving on endlessly straight roads, and finally: our outback paradise. Far away from any civilisation, internet… Just us, our bush camp, the whales, the waves, the stars, the sounds of the ocean, kangaroos, snakes, sharks, […]
My Film: “Wave of Life”
I’m suuuuuuuuuper pleased to present my film People who know me are aware that I gave up everything for kitesurfing almost two decades ago. For the ones who’ve never heard my background story, here’s the short version: Born and bred landlocked in the capital of Austria — Vienna — I had been dreaming of windsurfing, […]