Kitesoul Magazine #16 English Edition

There were a few puffs of wind and I was riding back and forth approaching
the rail but I couldn’t get enough speed. I stuck around
for quite a while, Craig even pumped his own kite and tried for a
bit but there wasn’t enough wind for us to feel confident enough
to hit it.
I almost gave up so many times, but kept remembering that it
could be the only chance I had to ride that feature. It was getting
very frustrating, sometimes you work a lot to get everything lined
up and the wind doesn’t cooperate. That’s what makes kite park
riding so special. It’s never good, until you have an epic day that
makes all the other bad ones worth it.
That put things into perspective for myself, we were out there far
away from contests, tours and judging trying to make something
special. All the work you put by finding the location, building the
rails, getting the crew together and setting up a feature like that
pays off when you come up with photos like this.
In the end, I only got about three hits on the feature, definitely not
what I was hoping for after waiting for a gust for so long but that’s