{"id":2756,"date":"2008-08-01T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?page_id=2756"},"modified":"2021-02-09T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:19:36","slug":"my-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/bio\/my-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"My profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 alignright\" title=\"illust_myprofile_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/illust_myprofile_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"204\" \/><strong>Name<\/strong> Gabi Steindl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nationality<\/strong> Austrian<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profession <\/strong>Professional Kitesurfer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duotonesports.com\/kiteboarding\/\">DUOTONE KITES<\/a>, <a title=\"Check out ION on the web !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ion-products.com\/\">ION<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/bio\/sponsors\/quobba\/\">QUOBBA FINS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Home @<\/strong> &#8230;well, after over a decade of having been a &#8220;Kite-Nomad&#8221;, living out of my Duotone board bag following the wind and making the destinations of my missions (comps, photo-shoots, explorer expeditions for my magazine articles etc.) all around the globe my temporary bases, I found my true spiritual home and settled down (perhaps not in the most conservative meaning of the word as I still travel a fair bit) in Margaret River, Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m married to an Australian Big Wave Windsurfer and we have created a beautiful home together, only a few kilometres from the Ocean, in the bush, lots of kangaroos in the garden as well as our 4 chickens \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education &amp; professional development <\/strong>Please check out my\u00a0<a title=\"Check out my Curriculum Vitae !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/bio\/curriculum-vitae\/\">Curriculum Vitae for all details !<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Likes <\/strong>Getting up at sunrise, surfing before breakfast, meditating, loving to inhale the energy of Mother Nature !<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3687\" title=\"illust_myprofile_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/illust_myprofile_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"204\" \/><strong>Dislikes<\/strong>\u00a0Envy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Height <\/strong>178 cm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eyes<\/strong>\u00a0Blue<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hair<\/strong>\u00a0Blond &#8230; in fact almost white.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interests other than kitesurfing<\/strong><br \/>\nSurfing, SUP, yoga, swimming, mountainbiking, snowboarding, scuba diving (PADI Advanced, CMAS* Bronze), horsebackriding (Austrian National Junior Champion Showjumping 1992&amp;1993), YMCA certified Aerobic instructor, martial arts, hiking, mountainbiking\u00a0&#8230;<br \/>\nOther than sports: writing, photography and of course travel!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3685\" title=\"illust_myprofile_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/illust_myprofile_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"285\" \/><strong>Favourite spot<\/strong> &#8230;wherever the wind blows and the swell hits!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite equipment<\/strong>\u00a0Duotone Neo SLS, I love my 10m2 as I truly dig riding in light winds, that&#8217;s when the waves are still soooo clean, but I also absolutely froth on my 6m2 \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nWaveboards: 2021 Pro Wam SLS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto in life<\/strong>\u00a0<em>&#8220;Life\u2019s not a rehearsal<\/em>\u2026, <em>Happy those people, who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price, to see them come true&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also check out my <a title=\"Check out my Curriculum Vitae !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/bio\/curriculum-vitae\/\">CURRICULUM VITAE<\/a> (the more serious version of the above) as well as a <a title=\"Check out the interview !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/bio\/a-short-interview-with-me\/\">SHORT INTERVIEW<\/a> about my life as a pro and focus on wave-riding today.\u00a0 Have fun !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Gabi Steindl Nationality Austrian Profession Professional Kitesurfer Sponsors \u00a0DUOTONE KITES, ION, QUOBBA FINS Home @ &#8230;well, after over a decade of having been a &#8220;Kite-Nomad&#8221;, living out of my Duotone board bag following the wind and making the destinations of my missions (comps, photo-shoots, explorer expeditions for my magazine articles etc.) all around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":1095,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"tpl_biography.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11989,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2756\/revisions\/11989"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}