Y E A H, finally summer has arrived in Western Australia, where I am currently chillin’ out, gathering energy for an exciting new season to come \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n
And Y E S, finally the day has come:\u00a0 My brandnew FANATIC FLY WAVE 9’6 SUP<\/a> <\/strong>and I enjoyed the first sessions together in the Indian Ocean!<\/p>\n This first joyride ride wasn’t just any ordinary session… nope I went on a boattrip to the most exposed reef off the coast of Western Australia: The Abrolhos Islands.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Abrolhos islands\u00a0 are an island group consisting of 122 islands, approximately 60kms off Geraldton. <\/a>Wow, rockin\u2019 crazy outer reef swells, way out the Indian Ocean… in the water:\u00a0 lots of big fish, yep, white pointers apparently everywhere, one really doesn\u2019t want to get in trouble out here, the Abrolhos are truly in the middle of nowhere….<\/p>\n The boattrip was meant to be a “wind- & kitesurfing-trip” and the boat was full with wind-hungry folks… So yeah, for the ‘pure’ wind- and kitesurfers the trip might have been a bit boooring as the wind-gods were not really on our side.\u00a0 For me, it was<\/strong> pure JOY JOY JOOOOOOOOOOOOOY, thanks to FANATIC and the amazing Fly Wave \ud83d\ude42 !<\/strong><\/p>\n I went on ‘exploration-cruizes’ to tiny little islands and on the last day, we also found some small, though, oh-so-beautifully sweet, little waves in the clearest, most amazing water,\u00a0 s t o k e d.<\/p>\n The 9\u20196\u201d drives off the tail and winds up speed with a racy tri-fin set-up. It\u2019s super easy to handle too and although the boards specs were certainly a bit on the \u2018short side\u2019 for small waves like on that boat-trip, it was super easy for me to paddle myself into them \ud83d\ude42 !\u00a0 The fishtail shape certainly is very supportive in both acceleration and wave-catching lift. The CAD-engineered volume flow and flat deck, really help big time with regards to stability and balance.\u00a0 Well and with regards to the truly amazing Wood Sandwich Light Construction and super stylish looks of it, there\u2019s no other words than:\u00a0 F U L L Y\u00a0 S I C K \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 !<\/p>\n I\u2019m more than stoked.\u00a0 Still had to borrow a paddle of a friend of mine for this trip, though, my FANATIC paddle should be arriving this week…, can\u2019t wait 4 more joy sessions on this absolutely ingenious masterpiece of a SUP.<\/strong><\/p>\n Guys, if u haven\u2019t done so already:\u00a0 it’s high time that also YOU give SUP\u2019ing a go, trust me, you won’t regret it, it’s sooooooooooo much fun (no matter whether on flat water, lakes, ocean, waves, racing, etc… with a SUP there’s soooo many options!) and get yourself a board, delevolped by the masterminds of the very best brand out there:\u00a0 FANATIC!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Soon more, Y E A H, finally summer has arrived in Western Australia, where I am currently chillin’ out, gathering energy for an exciting new season to come \ud83d\ude42 . And Y E S, finally the day has come:\u00a0 My brandnew FANATIC FLY WAVE 9’6 SUP and I enjoyed the first sessions together in the Indian Ocean! […]<\/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":[1609,41,1606,1612,177,1611,1214,329,349,1532,1610,1158,1608,1526,1156,292,1157,310,1908,716,1607],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","tag-abrolhos","tag-australia","tag-cad","tag-deck","tag-fanatic","tag-flow","tag-fly","tag-geraldton","tag-island","tag-islands","tag-leader","tag-paddle","tag-sandwich","tag-sharks","tag-stand","tag-sup","tag-up","tag-wa","tag-wave","tag-western","tag-wood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536","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=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt had been scheduled for these dates for a long, long time…\u00a0 therefore, although, the forecast for the weekend looked rather sad, there was no way I wouldn’t wanna be on that boat…\u00a0 The “Island Leader” is an incredibly cool, old commercial fishing boat that looks a bit like a military ship. I knew the boat already as I had already been on an epic trip on it early in 2010, back then we scored absolutely epic kitesurfing conditions.<\/a><\/p>\n
\n…always there for your comments, questions, and feedback guys
\nGxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"