Gabriele Steindl : Professional Kiteboarder and traveler

Kitegabi on TV

Yeah, and another TV-success 4 kitegabi, sick…. wow, my TV-boadcast count over Christmas and New Year’s has been extremely satisfying , sweet
Sport Wien TV has already recently broadcasted a 4 minute profile and interview with images from my latest trip to Papua New Guinea, though, I was privilegd being the ‘Christmas Story’ over [...]

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Wallpaper january 2010

Here’s the first wallpaper of my FREE WALLPAPER CALENDAR – easy for you to download and available in all mayor screen resolutions and even for iphone !
The photo was take by Russell Ord, one of THE greatest surf-photographers on the Planet !
You might be curious about the background to this photo, the ‘behind the scenes-story’ [...]

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Free Wallpaper Calendar 2010 !!

My french genius webmaster from HRW-Design came up with the brilliant idea of designing a WALLPAPER CALENDAR for 2010 with my best photos of the last season !
Every 1st of each month, precisely at 00:00 you will be able to find a sweet wallpaper of the respective month ready for free download in my blog [...]

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Kitegabi on Air on Boxing Day !

S i c k, Austrian TV decided to broadcast a little movie about one of my most recent projects ‘Kitesurfing in Papua New Guinea’ and yeah, they took it up into their prime-time slot in the Sport-Show on Boxing Day,  JOY and with absolute record viewers numbers, a great privilege  !

- I’ve met [...]

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Wishin’ u a JOY X-MAS !!!

Wow, another year has almost passed… and the more I’m thinking about it: 2009 most probably has been THE best year  e v e r in my kite-pro career of the past 8 years !  That simply comfirms to me yet again:   Things are only gettin’ better in life as long as u never give [...]

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X-Mas Vibes in Vienna

Today the first snow fell in Vienna and although I’m currently super busy on my computer writing articles about my latest trips and adventures, I decided to take some off and to check out some of Vienna’s Christmas markets   -   in Viennese:  “Christkindlmärkte”   -  in the beautiful old city centre.  Yeah, I picked up my [...]

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Kontact Waveboard 2010 – sickest waveboard e v e r !

Although I’m currently in my hometown Vienna, which is at the moment suuuuuper grey, drizzly, cold and snowless, and there’s certainly no waves or swell around my neighbourhood here   !?  …I would like to give my my personal opinion on North Kiteboarding’s latest wave-masterpiece:  The 2010 Kontact.
On my last trip in Western [...]

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The brandnew Rebel 2010

Innovation is one of North Kiteboarding’s cornerstones. The brains behind R&D develop innovative new products that push the performance barriers and test each and every product rigorously before it is brought to production. Yeah, that’s what North products are all about:  pure innovation in top quality, no gimmicks or bullsi$%t hypes. The North R&D team [...]

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Joy waves in W.A.

Shortly before boarding the airplane to grey, wintery Europe, I was praying for some last joy session in the mind-blowing waves of my beloved W.A…. and the Wind & Swell Gods answered my prayers    Thanx !!!
Yes yes yes, stoked, cause pretty decent swell rolled in with some sweet 20 knots, sunshine and I [...]

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Back home in Austria

Huff, after a 32 hours journey, pretty much from one side of the World to the other, I’ve arrived well back home in Vienna for the first time in almost one year…
3 planes, lots-of-rather disgusting plane food and a couple of tranquilizing glasses of vino, I have to admit, I’m pretty stoked arriving in Vienna in the [...]

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