I\u2019ve only just came back to Australia after a few absolutely unforgettable weeks in my home turf Austria. Before this trip I hadn\u2019t been back in nearly four years and I can\u2019t put into words\u00a0 h o w\u00a0 good it was to spend time with my parents, brother and his family, old mates and to simply inhale Austrian air!\u00a0 \u2026and in as many ways as possible \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 On the mountain bike, swimming in some of Austria\u2019s incredibly gorgeous lakes, hiking in the Alps\u2026 ahhhh, Austria is truly magic!<\/p>\n
One of the highlights was certainly a wakesurf-session behind a true machine of a boat on the Danube, Europe\u2019s second largest river, that flows right through Vienna, the capital of Austria. A couple of old mates from Ohana Vienna<\/a> recently bought themselves this new toy that nearly is impossible to describe in only a few words. Basically built for wakesurfing it has some massive water tanks with several hundreds liters capacity in its hull. By pressing a few buttons in the cockpit the captain can regulate the tanks and by that adjust the wake that forms behind the boat. The technology is simply amazing and highly advanced and takes surfers stance (goofy or regular) and many other factors into consideration.<\/p>\n Meeting up at the marina in Vienna, everybody was frothing for riding some endless river waves. Though, a heavy rain squall hit out of the blue. \u00a0We feared that was the end of our sess before it even had started\u2026so we waited\u2026<\/p>\n Good things come to those who wait!\u00a0 The reward was a huge rainbow and the most joy evening session we only could have wished for!<\/p>\n With sick tunes pumping out of the sound system’s mega speakers, we were riding river waves into the sunset. \u00a0In fact it was nearly pitch black when we exited the water only shortly before 10pm. \u00a0Ahhhh, loving the long days i Austria at this time of the year!<\/p>\n First Markus, one of the owners of the boat, showed how it\u2019s done. He\u2019s really good at it and pulled quite a few sweet moves.\u00a0 I was up next. I had tried wakesurfing twice before but that\u2019s already several years back now\u2026. \u00a0In fact, I secured the victory at the “Danube Pipemasters”, the Open Wakesurfing Championships in 2008 and won the title “One Foot Offshore Pipe Mistress” \ud83d\ude42<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0The very first go I had at it earlier the same year at the Traunsee, one of Austria’s most beautiful lakes and the place where my mother is from.<\/a><\/p>\n Six years after my first attempts and ‘only’ been riding ocean waves since, I was a bit insecure at the start but soon was riding the same wave for several minutes till my legs cramped up\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Soooooooooooo much fun, thanx to Markus and Michi from Ohana Vienna!!! I\u2019ve only just came back to Australia after a few absolutely unforgettable weeks in my home turf Austria. Before this trip I hadn\u2019t been back in nearly four years and I can\u2019t put into words\u00a0 h o w\u00a0 good it was to spend time with my parents, brother and his family, old mates and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[35,1021,1845,312,143,1654],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","tag-austria","tag-danube","tag-ohana","tag-surfing","tag-vienna","tag-wake"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10291,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHopefully see you next time for another sess when back in good old Vienna \ud83d\ude42
\nGabi x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"