Kitesoul Magazine #16 English Edition

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-