Meet Gabi! An interview with one of the world’s female TOP ranked kitesurf professionals

The final weeks of an incredible trip in Central America (Belize and Mexico) in Spring 2006, I spent in the Puerto Vallarta area on the West coast of mainland Mexico. Visiting a friend who I have not seen in a couple of years, I found myself in a small town, with the name Bucerias that I totally fell in love with. Especially the people there, a bunch of funny, kite- and ocean-obsessed Mexicans, made me change my ticket back home quite a few times.

Bucerias, situated right at the Bahia de Banderas, a huge lagoon with numerous spots for pretty much any wind direction was a great place to kite. When the regional newspaper ‘Vallarta Tribune’ asked me for an interview, I was stoked, even more so after the paper got published, featuring kitegabi on the cover!
I remember the photoshoot fror the cover shot very well. Ex-skydive professional Fritz Pfnuer, a lovely chap and good friend by now, came out on a small dingy and asked me to jump over the boat. I did my best and we got good stuff, however, during one jump my board came off my feet und uiuiui, landed just a few centimetres beside Fritz’s head in the boat…

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NAME : Vallarte Tribune

RELEASE DATE : June 2006

LANGUAGE : ENG

PHOTOGRAPHER : Fritz Pfnuer

CATEGORIES : itvs & portraits