Chris Pressler´s windsurfing blog

The wind was up again and the seaweed drifted around the bay. On the outside the waves were quite high, like in Sylt. While the registration I went through the eventmag and saw myseld printed. Yeah, cool guys. That´s nice? What else happened today. I went for two sessions with Isonic 101 and Code Red R2 7,7. The wind was nice and definitely had fun out there. Around 17.30 we had a ride to Ulsan to the opening ceremony. We got served a dinner and much more, like local musicians.

Tomorrow the skippersmeeting will be at 9.00 at the morning,

Chris

Inside the eventmag!

The gear tent. I share it with Jesper Orth, Ms.Suzuki and some other Japanese riders.

Many new houses get built. The workes risk a lot, I guess!

Jinha Beach, a remote village and myself in between.

I arrived this morning at Jinha Beach, Ulsan. Relatively strong wind from notheastern direction was blowing and the sea was pushing 1 - 2 m high waves into the bay. A lot of seaweed is swimming around. I went for a sailing session on 7,7 and Isonics 101 and 122.

The village has not changed compared to last year. It still has this kind of wild touch.

Chris

Massive bag.

Big room in the Interfeel Motel.

Korean couples love the village.

Tomorrow I will be on my flight to South Korea. Hope all gear will fit. LH has weightlimits. Do not know how accurate the guys in Munich will take it.

The last 2 weeks were full of work and less spare time. I even could make an update only once. There was some time left to drive to lonesome places at the lake, together with Kerstin, and have a view on things how they are, if they stand still.
Will keep you updated from Jinha Beach, Ulsan.
Chris

Early evening in the harbourbay of Jois.

While the last four days most of the day time I spent inside the Podersdoirf beachpark to represent Starboard/Severne gear to interested people, who visited the SurfTESTival in Podersdorf. It was a revival of a test, back to the roots, which had been quite popular years ago. On saturday we got a nice breeze in between 10 and 20 knots.

It was fun and found some time to sail on some gear. I had a Serenity session powered up with the Glide 7,5, the super powerful sail. This set up does not need much wind indeed.

Cu, Chris

Gliding at the lake

Publication

Yesterday the local newspaper BVZ placed a nice update about my wintertraining. As well I can recommend you to download an older travel report to Croatia/Dalmatia, where I went in 2004 together with Kerstin reiger and Slovenian freestyle crack Tine Slabe (Slo-6). Was such a nice trip. We discussed a lot about telling people about lonesome places or keep it for ourselve.

Chris

Newspaper update inside the BVZ. A picture from Vietnam. The last session before I got sick for about a week. I am on a 101 proto iSonic 08. The board never got choosen as the best one, but worked great in the hard chop with Code Red 6,7.

Here you get the download, just jump on www.surf-magazin.de website. The text is in German klanguage, but if you should have any questions, just come back to me.

My sailsponsor put the Gran Canaria Diary online on their site. Like it. Just came back from Vienna. We had heavy rainshowers there, but a super nice evening at the momentum gallery. Christian Skrein, a photographer, who only took shots for a period of 7 years - he got shots of the Beatles in the snow - presented himself as a cool guy and his pictures as art, we would say today. He never expected to become an artist himself. Like the shot “Sternchenschnuppe” (1964), what means “little falling star”. Took a shot with my phone. Both the group of people (men) and the viewer in the exhibition had a nice view on the falling star, who is not that little.

The evening ended with a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant located in the 6th district. Later, back in the office, the update at Severne´s site was on.

Nos vemos, Gran Canaria…

Chris

“Sternchenschnuppe” (1964) by Christian Skrein, at the Filmfestival in Cannes

Spraying at Vargas (shot by Kerstin Reiger)

Rotating at Vargas (shot by Kerstin Reiger)

In the moment the life runs quick. As fast as the spring showed up, as fast the busy side of life appeared. Some weeks ago I had the Gran Canaria feeling inside my body. Now the middle European lifestyle came back like a quick boomerang. Today there were some things to organise in Vienna, the capital of Vienna. God thanks we just live around 75 km from the city and close to the lake. Tomorrow the wind will be up and I can´t await to speed on my Slalom gear. 3 weeks are left for good trainings sessions before I will fly over to Southern Korea.

Chris

the new style of Vienna

the old style of Vienna

narrow gulch built up of houses

Today the spring arrived definitely. Being at the fresh air was so nice. Temperatures like on the Canary islands and some wind from south eastern direction. If we have wind from Hungaria, which blows not super staedy, I always decide for the 9,0. In the beginning the size was great, but later on, the sun was deep, the “Puszta breeze” picked up in force - for sure 20 knots in gusts - and I had a lot of power on the fin, board, sail and my body. It was worth to sail out there and Kerstin took some shots before the sun went down behind the little Leitha hills.

Chris

My homespot Podersdorf with south east breeze (shot by Kerstin Reiger)

The right choice for today (shot by myself)

Yesterday I decided to drive to Vienna instead of having a windsurfing session. By coincidence, Kerstin had an eye on the big pack of post and advertising stuff we received within the last three weeks. She found an invitation to a public reading of three famous authors. They all should read out of their first book, which got published and telling stories how it felt and how it was to write the first one.

Sitting there in the room with two famous authors - Gerhard Roth did not appear - felt great. Listening to words, which were written out of passion, influenced by experiences and dreams. Katja Lange-Müller started and Doron Rabinovici continued. She told about the hard life in Berlin and later on in Mongolia. Doron got dragged by the parents to Austria in the age of 3 and had to learn the German (Austrian language) to get integrated in school, to read Brecht and later on to create the novel figure Papiernik.

I learnt quite a lot while the 90 minutes and will keep an eye on further readings.

Later on Kerstin and myself showed up at the “Magnum´s first” exhibition in the Westlicht. Imagine, after 50 years the Institut Français in Innsbruck returned an exhibition to the photographers of the Magnum Agency. It had been stored in a cellar and forgotten.
“Magnum Photo. Gesicht der Zeit” consists of 83 vintage prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, Jean Marquis, Werner Bischof, Robert Capa and the Austrians Erich Lessing, Inge Morath and Ernst Haas. The central theme of the exhibition is photographic “Humanism”. There were pics of Ghandi 1 day before he died and great streetphotographie of Inge Morath. My favourites were Werner Bischof, who left his life in the Andes and Marc Riboud, who portrait the landscape and people of Dalmatia - one of my favourite landscapes in Europe - back in the 50ties.

Anyway, it was great to be that close to this old shots. Shots you normally only will view in books.

Passing the “FIAKERS” at the Stephans square in the first district of Vienna

Authors with success (from the left to the right): Katja Lange-Müller, Renatus Deckert & Doron Rabinovici

Werner Bischof: “Cambodia”

The Zaafarana story got published in the latest issue of the German SURF. It was definitely a great moment to sail there in the untouched bay and to see Kerstin´s pics printed on paper. A sweet location for freeriding and freestyle with a high rate of wind all around the wear!

See you,

Chris