{"id":9116,"date":"2011-05-02T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2018-11-27T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:49:00","slug":"wave-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/various\/wave-armour\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave Armour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wavekitesurfing is the latest trend in the multi-facetted sport of kitesurfing. It\u2019s growing rapidly in popularity and more and more kitesurfers exchange their freestyle board for a super cool waveboard, which guarantees a totally new feeling in the water and the ultimate thrill.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up any kitesurf magazine these days and you\u2019re bound to find the majority of photos being taken in waves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve dedicated my career since 2005 almost solely focused on waveriding. Personally I love the really big ones, yeah and would call myself a true \u2018Big-Wave-Freak\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Waveriding is not only for the pro\u2019s, though.\u00a0 Not at all, you can get into it at pretty much all levels of kitesurfing once you\u2019re passed the beginner\u2019s stage.\u00a0 A good intermediate level is certainly of advantage and if you\u2019re in addition to that a surfer, kiting in waves will come naturally rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your aim is, the upmost important in the beginning is a gradual, yet safe learning curve:\u00a0 The progress from a total newbie to a confident wavekiter. Therefore I focused the article more on some of the safety aspects around going out in waves rather than intending to be a complete guide to different manoeuvres.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by sick action shots of the North International team (Sky Solbach, Jaime Herraiz, Mario Rodwald etc..) and myself, read this <a title=\"Check out Kiteworld on the web!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kiteworldmag.com\/\">8-page article in Kiteworld Magazine, the leading international publication,<\/a> in order to find out things that I\u2019ve discovered to be the most important to kiting safely in waves.<\/p>\n<p>Simply scroll down and choose whether you would like to download, read online or print the article.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively if your native language isn&#8217;t English, <a title=\"Check out the feature in German in Kiteboarding.eu!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/various\/how-2-get-into-wavekiting-2\/\">check out the article in German in Kiteboarding.eu. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have fun guys &amp; please send me you feedback, I always love to hear from you \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nGxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wavekitesurfing is the latest trend in the multi-facetted sport of kitesurfing. It\u2019s growing rapidly in popularity and more and more kitesurfers exchange their freestyle board for a super cool waveboard, which guarantees a totally new feeling in the water and the ultimate thrill. Pick up any kitesurf magazine these days and you\u2019re bound to find [&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":[1734,1125,364,1363,1037,63,471,611,616,42],"class_list":["post-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various","tag-armour","tag-international","tag-jaime-herraiz","tag-kiteworld","tag-mario-rodwald","tag-north","tag-sky-solbach","tag-surf","tag-wavekiting","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116","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=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11541,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}