{"id":705,"date":"2005-03-01T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=705"},"modified":"2008-07-09T23:43:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T21:43:45","slug":"feel-the-power-of-snowkiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/various\/feel-the-power-of-snowkiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel the power of Snowkiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter in Austria is certainly a beautiful time of the year with snow falling, white mountains, cosy Christmas fires, snowboarding, family and of course lots-a-cookies \uf04a  Nevertheless, I\u2019m somehow allergic to the cold, especially as I live in Vienna, where winter rather signifies:  grey, mushy snow everywhere, grumpy people, overcast skies for almost 4 months&#8230; grrrr, not nice, thus I\u2019m usually gone long before deep winter hits. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of year ago, though, in between coming back from several competitions in Brazil and right before jumping back onto a plane for some hardcore training, I gave snowkiting a go. A good friend of mine, Hardy Brandstoetter is founder and owner of www.snowkiting,at and so we had a fun afternoon at a field near his home in Upper Austria. We built some snow-kickers and other obstacles and had a great fun afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt, however, that I personally definitely prefer kitesurfing on water &#8230; I\u2019m simply a water-addict, I love this element and feel so much at home as soon as I leave land and get into the water!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter in Austria is certainly a beautiful time of the year with snow falling, white mountains, cosy Christmas fires, snowboarding, family and of course lots-a-cookies \uf04a Nevertheless, I\u2019m somehow allergic to the cold, especially as I live in Vienna, where winter rather signifies: grey, mushy snow everywhere, grumpy people, overcast skies for almost 4 months&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[35,172,168,170,171,167,169],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various","tag-austria","tag-franz-grabner","tag-hardy-brandstoetter","tag-heiko-mandl","tag-hypo-bank","tag-snowkiting","tag-snowkitingat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}