{"id":1129,"date":"2008-06-23T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2008-08-09T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:26:49","slug":"austrian-championships-20-22juni-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/events\/austrian-championships-20-22juni-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Championships, 20-22 June 08"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend the first part of the Isuzu Austrian Kitesurf Championships took place at the beautiful lake Traun in Upper Austria. The Austrian kite-scene united and put up a great event which forms the first part of the National Championships, that are held in 2 disciplines – freestyle and race – second part in September at the lake Neusiedl.<\/p>\n

The weekend was blessed with the most fantastic weather, summer, sunshine, hot temperatures … the only thing missing: the wind !?\u00a0 My main sponsor O2alive<\/a> supported the event with unlimited power-kicks for everyone, i.e. as much 2alive power water as one could only wish for, nice!<\/p>\n

During the third and last day a light breeze set in and the race committee decided to do a ‘Jam Session’, in which Heinar Brandstoetter won the ‘overall impression’ and Bernie Faschingleitner ‘best trick’. After 2 races in about 8 knots, the event had to be stopped as the wind dropped more and more…<\/p>\n

Nevertheless it was a great fun weekend, well organised and lots-a-fun…the best about it all was the ‘alternative-no-wind-entertainment’, some SICK wakesurfing behind a FAT wakeboard-pimp-boat… i n s a n e, the feeling of riding a wave surrounded by huge mountains was totally unreal and surely the biggest fun I’ve had in Austria in a loooong time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Also thanx to North and Boards & More, we had some sweet SUP boards to cruise around on the lake…and some fun gladiator-fights \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Check out the latest Kiteboarding.de-Magazine, where I published a nice event-report with pics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend the first part of the Isuzu Austrian Kitesurf Championships took place at the beautiful lake Traun in Upper Austria. The Austrian kite-scene united and put up a great event which forms the first part of the National Championships, that are held in 2 disciplines – freestyle and race – second part in September […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[856,899,536,35,290,293,33,1904,113,237,114,38,537,291,292,236,294,538],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-856","tag-02-alive-power-water","tag-alive","tag-austria","tag-austrian-championships","tag-boards-more","tag-competition","tag-freestyle","tag-lake-neusiedl","tag-lake-traun","tag-neusiedlersee","tag-north-kites","tag-power","tag-race","tag-sup","tag-traunsee","tag-wakesurfing","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t