{"id":1465,"date":"2007-05-07T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/5th-at-the-pkra-worldcup-at-lake-neusiedl-austria\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T15:07:55","slug":"5th-at-the-pkra-worldcup-at-lake-neusiedl-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/events\/5th-at-the-pkra-worldcup-at-lake-neusiedl-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"5th at the PKRA Worldcup at Lake Neusiedl, Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exciting, nervewrecking, funny but rather chilly week comes to an end and I’m stoked about the 5th place at the PKRA Worldcup-stop at the Lake Neusiedl in my homecountry Austria.<\/p>\n

After the event started very contrary to past years with windy skies already on the first day – in the past years, we were waiting for the wind…and waiting…and waiting…24\/7 on standby for almost a week – it soon turned into the ‘usual-lake neusiedl-scenario’: absolutely NO wind.<\/p>\n

In any case, we managed to finish the Single and even started the Double Elimination. On the last day, the race director even gave the 2nd discipline – Best Trick – a go, which unfortunately yet again had to be called off due to a lack of wind.<\/p>\n

Nevermind, I am stoked about coming 5th in freestyle and will never forget the legendary moments of my first ‘stage-surf-dive’ on top of a pink waveboard during the price-ceremony in the large party-tent. Y E H A, I was carried by a wave of hundreds of hands, high above the heads of the screaming surf-fans, right from the winner’s stage in a big circle around, and back onto the stage…. COOOOL !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An exciting, nervewrecking, funny but rather chilly week comes to an end and I’m stoked about the 5th place at the PKRA Worldcup-stop at the Lake Neusiedl in my homecountry Austria. After the event started very contrary to past years with windy skies already on the first day – in the past years, we were […]<\/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":[35,33,113,441,443,30,34,442,32],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-austria","tag-competition","tag-lake-neusiedl","tag-neusidlersee","tag-opening","tag-pkra","tag-podersdorf","tag-summer","tag-world-cup"],"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