Kiteworld #27 out now
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
A SERIES OF BRIEF TASTERS OF WHAT'S COMING UP IN KITEWORLD 27 OUT NOW…
“When testing boards I like to give riders of different abilities different boards without letting them know the performance characteristics expected from them. Interestingly, most of the time a rider will perform better on a board with less, but easy to access, performance, which leads me to my conclusion about ease of use outweighing performance in terms of importance.”MARK SHINN: MARK MY WORDS
“We did an article on him eight years before he ran for president. We hit it off instantly. However, within a few minutes of meeting at his holiday house in Nantucket the wind started to blow. We looked at each other and knew we were going to blow off the interview. Exactly the same happened the following day…Finally, I flew to Washington DC and we hid ourselves in the basement of the Senate Building and got the interview on tape.”WINDWING PRESIDENT, JOHN CHAO: HARD WORK
“You see, Felix Pivec is on a mission: not just to be the best, but to change what and how you ride; to improve the level of the average rider by providing a simple, clear example of what works and to back it up by being the best guy in the water, day in and day out. He has an almost religious faith in his equipment and technique as the future of wave riding with kites. The funny thing is that he just might be right.”JEFF PFEFFER: IN TRIM – A FELIX PIVEC PROFILE
“When you drive across the border, you hit Tijuana, and everything changes. We were in my truck but were pulling a wave runner and all kinds of other gear. It's always a little sketchy; you just want to be really careful. A lot of the road signs are unreliable – it’s hard even if you know where you’re going. You have to just keep moving, it's that kind of a white-knuckle experience.”PETER TROW: BETTER DAYS IN THE DIRTY SOUTH
“You should be riding with you bar out in front of you in the direction of travel. This will automatically help your body position and to lean correctly against the kite. If you use it for support, you’ll pull yourself up underneath the bar, and slide out onto your backside.”ADAM VON INS: ALL THE GEAR, NO IDEA?
“Perry glanced skyward in time to duck. The lines snagged in between the sandbags then looped again just as Perry did his best tuck ‘n’ roll, snatching a line then pouncing onto the canopy. The pilot (still on the other side of the sandbags) had no idea Perry was starfished on his kite. He was busy trying to fend off the sandbag that was pressing against his cheek whilst also tugging on a back line trying to figure out why his Crossbow hadn’t reappeared.”CHERYL HARRISON: CHERYL MEETS…THE NEXT GENERATION
“As I come through the bottom turn and up the wave, I start to move all the pressure to my back foot, but still maintain speed and continue looking over my shoulder throughout the turn. It's a really pivoting movement and you can see in shots two and three of the helicopter sequence just how much pressure I have to put on my back foot to get it round nice and tightly. You can do anything with speed and it’s absolutely essential here.”BEN WILSON: TURN AND FACE
“As a kite it definitely puts a smile on your face. You come in happy. The young lad that worked at the centre went out on it and was like, 'Wow.'”CHRIS BULL: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION KITE TEST
“When testing boards I like to give riders of different abilities different boards without letting them know the performance characteristics expected from them. Interestingly, most of the time a rider will perform better on a board with less, but easy to access, performance, which leads me to my conclusion about ease of use outweighing performance in terms of importance.”MARK SHINN: MARK MY WORDS
“We did an article on him eight years before he ran for president. We hit it off instantly. However, within a few minutes of meeting at his holiday house in Nantucket the wind started to blow. We looked at each other and knew we were going to blow off the interview. Exactly the same happened the following day…Finally, I flew to Washington DC and we hid ourselves in the basement of the Senate Building and got the interview on tape.”WINDWING PRESIDENT, JOHN CHAO: HARD WORK
“You see, Felix Pivec is on a mission: not just to be the best, but to change what and how you ride; to improve the level of the average rider by providing a simple, clear example of what works and to back it up by being the best guy in the water, day in and day out. He has an almost religious faith in his equipment and technique as the future of wave riding with kites. The funny thing is that he just might be right.”JEFF PFEFFER: IN TRIM – A FELIX PIVEC PROFILE
“When you drive across the border, you hit Tijuana, and everything changes. We were in my truck but were pulling a wave runner and all kinds of other gear. It's always a little sketchy; you just want to be really careful. A lot of the road signs are unreliable – it’s hard even if you know where you’re going. You have to just keep moving, it's that kind of a white-knuckle experience.”PETER TROW: BETTER DAYS IN THE DIRTY SOUTH
“You should be riding with you bar out in front of you in the direction of travel. This will automatically help your body position and to lean correctly against the kite. If you use it for support, you’ll pull yourself up underneath the bar, and slide out onto your backside.”ADAM VON INS: ALL THE GEAR, NO IDEA?
“Perry glanced skyward in time to duck. The lines snagged in between the sandbags then looped again just as Perry did his best tuck ‘n’ roll, snatching a line then pouncing onto the canopy. The pilot (still on the other side of the sandbags) had no idea Perry was starfished on his kite. He was busy trying to fend off the sandbag that was pressing against his cheek whilst also tugging on a back line trying to figure out why his Crossbow hadn’t reappeared.”CHERYL HARRISON: CHERYL MEETS…THE NEXT GENERATION
“As I come through the bottom turn and up the wave, I start to move all the pressure to my back foot, but still maintain speed and continue looking over my shoulder throughout the turn. It's a really pivoting movement and you can see in shots two and three of the helicopter sequence just how much pressure I have to put on my back foot to get it round nice and tightly. You can do anything with speed and it’s absolutely essential here.”BEN WILSON: TURN AND FACE
“As a kite it definitely puts a smile on your face. You come in happy. The young lad that worked at the centre went out on it and was like, 'Wow.'”CHRIS BULL: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION KITE TEST
