PKRA Event St. Peter Ording, Germany

Finally a windy day. After 5 days without action for the freestyler we got some wind to start
the single elimination. My first heat was against another LF-Rider Marlene Rapp from Sweden.


The conditions were not easy, the wind was going up and down all the time. I stayed on
my nine and Marlene changed to 7. I had a lot of power in the kite but as soon as I left the water was the power gone.........I crashed my back to blind and was almost not able to relounge my kite and then I had to body drag back to my board and the time was over. I really thought that I was loosing the heat because I didn't perform that good but I won and I am very happy about it. A storm kicked in and we had to wait until the next day.


My next heat was then agains Bruna, which I lost..... :-)
It was a very windy day and the water was choppy and the current was very strong. 
After the singles we went straight to the doubles. My opponent was Kristine Boese,
I tried my best in these conditions but I lost and the competition was finish for me but
I am happy with my performance.


Congratulations to Youri Zoon and Gisela Pulido the Freestyle World Champions 2011.

PKRA Event St. Peter Ording, Germany

Finally a windy day. After 5 days without action for the freestyler we got some wind to start
the single elimination. My first heat was against another LF-Rider Marlene Rapp from Sweden.


The conditions were not easy, the wind was going up and down all the time. I stayed on
my nine and Marlene changed to 7. I had a lot of power in the kite but as soon as I left the water was the power gone.........I crashed my back to blind and was almost not able to relounge my kite and then I had to body drag back to my board and the time was over. I really thought that I was loosing the heat because I didn't perform that good but I won and I am very happy about it. A storm kicked in and we had to wait until the next day.


My next heat was then agains Bruna, which I lost..... :-)
It was a very windy day and the water was choppy and the current was very strong. 
After the singles we went straight to the doubles. My opponent was Kristine Boese,
I tried my best in these conditions but I lost and the competition was finish for me and 
ended on the 9th place.


Congratulations to Youri Zoon and Gisela Pulido the Freestyle World Champions 2011.

Day 1/2 at the PKRA Event in St. Peter Ording (Germany)

I am in St. Peter Ording since a few Day to attend my first PKRA Worldtour Contest. 

We were 16 girls and we hat to do trails to enter to the main Event.  My Heat

was very good and I am very happy that I won it. 

The forecast for the next days looks pretty bad for freestyle but I am sure

that we will get some wind next week.

Sequence Image BLIND JUDE

Thank you Andy for this super cool Image of my Blind Judge, in Hamata.

Manuela Jungo

Swiss National Day, August 1st

It was very nice to be at home for a while, to spend some time with my family and Friends and to see the Fireworks on the Lake of Biel to celebrate the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1291.

But now is time to kite again, my rip is healed and I am ready for new crashes ;-)
The Plan is to drive to Denmark for two weeks and then to go to St. Peter Ording for the PKRA
and the launch of the new LF 2012 Material. 


I am very exited and I will keep you updated.

Manu

Action Video; ON THE ROAD Hamata, Egypt

Check out my video from Hamata.

Kitesurf Tour Europe in Sylt, Germany

One week back home to see my family and friends and I was already on the way to Sylt in Germany to compete at the Kitesurf Tour Europe.

I knew form Videos from the Spot Westerland, that the conditions are very hard there, but it was even harder then I expected....  


The first day was perfect, the sun was shining and it was warm. All the freestyler were released for the first day and after the opening ceremony, we went all to the spot  "Ellenbogen" where we found flat water ;-)

But then the next day, everything was different. The sky was gray, it was cold, the wind was super strong and the sea was very troublous (high and unreadable waves everywhere). I trained all these different tricks and the best I was able to perform was a unhooked backroll and raley, its a shame but it is true. As if this wasn't enough I crashed my kite "accidental" and I had a hard time in the short break.... thank you Michalina for saving us..... 


So, I knocked out in the quarterfinal of single elimination against Asia Litwin, afterwards I lost against Hannah Whiteley in the doubles and I ended 7th. I expected more from me but I had a very good time there and I meet good people :-) 

Nachdem ich eine Woche zuhause verbracht habe um Freund und Familie zu sehen bin ich bereits weiter nach Sylt geflogen, um an der  Kitesurf Tour Europe teilzunehmen.

Ich habe mir im Vorfeld einige Video angesehen von diesem Spot und wusste bereits, dass es sehr schwierige Bedingungen sein werden, aber es war noch viel härter als gedacht.......

Der erste Tag startete super, es war schön sonnig, warm und nach einer schönen Eröffnungszeremonie wurden wir Freestyler entlassen. Worauf wir zum nahegelegenen Spot Ellenbogen gefahren sind, wo wir schön flaches Wasser vorgefunden haben.

Doch der nächste Tag startete total anders.... der Himmel war bedeckt, es war arschkalt, der Wind war sehr stark und dass Meer sehr unruhig (es hatte super hohe und unlesbare Wellen). Jetzt habe ich all diese Tricks gelernt und ich konnte am Wettkampf kaum etwas zeigen..... das Beste war ein ausgehackter Reley und Backroll...., es war wirklich etwas peinlich. Als ob das noch nicht genug gewesen wäre. Ich habe es sogar geschafft, dass ich den Kite voll in den Short Break gecrashed habe und ich von den Wellen ein paar mal schön durchgespült worden bin.... danke nochmal an Michalina, die uns aus den Wellen gerettet hat....

In den Singel Eleminations bin ich dann im Viertelfinale gegen Asia Litwin ausgeschieden und in den Doubles gegen Hannah Whiteley und ich wurde 7e. Ich habe mehr von mir erwartet, aber ich hatte eine tolle Zeit und habe viele tolle Menschen kennengelernt :-)

Jetzt wird fleissig weitertrainiert, auch wenn die Bedingungen nicht super sind :-)