Kitesoul Magazine #16 English Edition

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Video saga
Felipe Moure Lopez and his Blind Judge 5 Challenge
This is the story about a
rider born in 1978. A man
who learnt kiteboarding
when he was 30 years old,
it’s not a bad moment in
life, in general. You can be
in good shape, you have
more money than when
you are younger, sex is better
when you are 30 than
when you are 20 and your
willpower is stronger than
when you were a teenager
and just having a shower
was something so hard
to do when you were lying
on the sofa Thirties are a
good moment in general,
maybe alopecia can concern
a bit, you may have it
or not but the concerning
is always around you. So,
except for that, thirties
are great!
This man who learnt to
go upwind in his thirties
didn’t know the mess
he was about to get in,
he didn’t know that he
was starting to play the
most addictive videogame
in history. That thing,
the kiteboarding, which
seemed harmless and
even healthy (it is a sport
in the end, sport is good),
became a hard drug.
Kitesurf like a
videogame: passing
the levels
At the beginning, kiting
was just something else
between all his hobbies,
it was just another videogame.
He passed the first
stage (going upwind), then
jumping, then rotations,
second stage passed!
Then he went for the bonus
stage (grabs hooked in,
easy and fun, the same as
when you have to destroy
a car in Street Fighter II).
Then he changed level
from easy to intermediate
and started to unhook. And
just then, when everything
seemed to get stuck, it
was the moment when the
real craziness started, the
most addictive stage of
the videogame. If you pass
this stage, there is no way