Kitesoul Magazine #16 English Edition
In this issue: Riders Column - Colleen Carroll, Red Bull KOTA 2017; ITW Nick Jacobsen, Ruben Lenten; Events: Ragnarok 2017, Banga Foil 2017; Journeys: In the Kingdom of the polar bears, The Wall Ride; Characters: Michael Zomer; Schools: Canary islands; Trends: How about learning kite-foil? Product focus: RRD rigid lines; Felipe Moure Lopez: Blind Judge 5 challenge and much more. In this issue: Riders Column - Colleen Carroll, Red Bull KOTA 2017; ITW Nick Jacobsen, Ruben Lenten; Events: Ragnarok 2017, Banga Foil 2017; Journeys: In the Kingdom of the polar bears, The Wall Ride; Characters: Michael Zomer; Schools: Canary islands; Trends: How about learning kite-foil? Product focus: RRD rigid lines; Felipe Moure Lopez: Blind Judge 5 challenge and much more.
164 Video saga Felipe Moure Lopez and his Blind Judge 5 Challenge back! We are talking about the handle pass! Apparently, it seems a kid’s thing, easy: ride fast, go downwind, unhook, pop with kite at 45 degree and pass the bar behind your back from one hand to the other one, then look at the water again and land as you can. Easy? Bullshit! The poor guy we are dedicating this lines spent one year trying to pass this stage of the simple handle pass in the air (the Blind Judge trick). But he got it. It was at the end of 2012 in Brazil when he was able to pass this stage. And, as we said lines before, there was no way back, that trick which looked impossible at the beginning came true and a new World appeared in front of his eyes, a world of possibilities wider than King Kong’s penis! My rider buddies are all younger than I am In that moment, 34 years old, he didn’t realize that
he had put off all his previous projects and he had left aside the piano, the pencil and his drawings, the gym, the Step classes, the PlayStation and the Tekken, the Rollerblades, he even gave up his habit of watching Fight Club (amazing movie) once per week. His old life had disappeared, everything was kiteboarding. Everything in his life became trying new tricks and talking about them with his kite friends: Hey, man, yesterday I got a new trick! The Hinterberger! Hinter what? Hitler? Ana Frank? Where? Burger? What the hell are you talking about?. Yes, this was the typical answer of anybody of his age. Why? Obvious! Because the people who knew what a Hinterberger is, are pretty much younger! (usually). The Freestyle 30+: it can be done! He felt alone so he decided to make a video to encourage people of his age to try freestyle tricks. The Freestyle 30+ video saga and its famous shout... Excuses! or Gallina! (chicken in Spanish). He wanted to say that age doesn’t matter, he wanted to inspire people of every age to play at the same level of the videogame, he wanted to show that it was possible to do nearly all the freestyle tricks you can see in competitions, even when you are not a young boy. And he did it! You can see it in that saga: blind judge3, heart attack, Smobe, Hinterberger, 315, KGB... All this videos are full of sense of humour, provocation and inspiration for people of about 35-40 years of age who still feel more or less young but who start to feel too old for trying tricks or facing the Newtons of a hard landing riding boots. He inspired them and soon, some old-
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164<br />
Video saga<br />
Felipe Moure Lopez and his Blind Judge 5 Challenge<br />
back! We are talking about<br />
the handle pass! Apparently,<br />
it seems a kid’s thing,<br />
easy: ride fast, go downwind,<br />
unhook, pop with<br />
kite at 45 degree and pass<br />
the bar behind your back<br />
from one hand to the other<br />
one, then look at the water<br />
again and land as you can.<br />
Easy? Bullshit! The poor<br />
guy we are dedicating this<br />
lines spent one year trying<br />
to pass this stage of<br />
the simple handle pass<br />
in the air (the Blind Judge<br />
trick). But he got it. It was<br />
at the end of 2012 in Brazil<br />
when he was able to pass<br />
this stage. And, as we said<br />
lines before, there was no<br />
way back, that trick which<br />
looked impossible at the<br />
beginning came true and<br />
a new World appeared in<br />
front of his eyes, a world<br />
of possibilities wider than<br />
King Kong’s penis!<br />
My rider buddies are<br />
all younger than I am<br />
In that moment, 34 years<br />
old, he didn’t realize that
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