Some pics from the Canary tour
It was great fun here on the Canary Islands. Thanks to all people giving us great support here, like the whole team of the Pro center Rene Egli. Thanks Christin & Jens. One more day is left and then we will leave to Austria. The wind is definitely back at Sotavento again. Chris Incredible strong wind whil ethe Slalom competition with gusts up to →
Riding your first wave
That´s a topic. Also for me. I never ride waves at my homespots, but most of the time on our trips. It´s something special for an Austrian to ride a wave, for someone living inland. Riding waves can be a big thing, whereever it happens, on the Canaries, in Morocco, in Peru or in your dreams. Francisco Goya once told →
Exciting design
What a great design. Starboard, my main sponsor, placed Kerstin and myself on the main page of star-board.com. 3 montages slide through alternating: pyramides, sandboarding, wavesailing in Peru and Vietnam, travelling through more than 15 countries on 4 continents And behind they placed a little interview. Travelling is for sure a passion of mine. I really like to sail on →
Nice update and great forecast
The days before leaving to somewhere are always extra busy. Today one of the biggest Austrian newspapers posted an update about myself - that´s a media highlight -and the PWA final on Sylt, where the windforecast looks insane. There is a chance to get some waveriding and freestyle done, too. Check it below and will keep you updated from the most →
What went on
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 →
Newspaper updates
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 →
Shots at Severnesails.com
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 →
Nice publication in the German SURF
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
Nice exposure
The weather in Austria is pretty cold and the lakes get frozen. Some more days and I will leave to the Canaries for a while. Got some nice exposure at the end of the year. The Taiwan trip of Kerstin, who took all pics and myself, got published in the current issue of the German SURF (1/2 2008). We got →
New Newspaper articles
Salzburger Nachrichten (19.1.2007)
News in Media
Like the report. Made by people who just jumped on a board sometimes in their life, perhaps without any success. This report was written by a person who really sailed sometimes in their life, she told me on the phone. So she knows a bit about the sport and likes my attitude toward it. I like the report and this →
Austrian newspapers like Taiwan stories
Will have a lot of updates in Austrian newspapers while the next days about my first trip to Taiwan/Penghu as a windsurfer. Being there has changed my attitude toward life, lifestyle and windsurfing. Would like to meet so lovely people all around the world like I met there. In the moment I´m quite busy, working on articles and getting everything together. →
Latest newspaper update
Got an update in th ebiggest newspaper of Austria, the "Kronenzeitung", one of my media partners. It´s great to have an article in between the Austrain skistars and the the US wonderboy Bode Miller. The Austrians like stories with Asian content. And myself? I like to be there and got as well the chance to see a bit of Asian →
Imagine, can be like “Kitzbühel”, almost…
Just came back from a roundtrip through Austria passing by the wonderful "Rolling Hills" of Bad Blumau and the city of Graz, where the moutain- and adventure filmfestival had been started. My windsurfing fellow and professional filmmaker Thomas Miklautsch presented his latest film "OM", a portrait of life in the mountains of Afghanistan and the sweet coast of India. He →
Windsurfing is not surfing …
It´s worth to invest time to promote the sport. It can happen directly at the beach, in a local newspaper, in the worldwideweb, inside a dvd or perhaps in a hollywoodproduction.... And it doesn´t matter if we call it surfing or windsurfing. I tried to explain other people the difference in between surfing in windsurfing. But does really exist such →
Das Geheimnis von Rubish
In der nächsten Ausgabe der SURF 9/2006 gibts News bezüglich Spots in der Region um Ancona. Zusammmen mit Kerstin besuchte ich die Marken mehrmals und entlockte den Locals die Geheimnisse: "Ancona: Für viele nur die Durchgangsstation auf dem Weg nach Griechenland. Dabei lohnt ein längerer Besuch. (SURF website www.surf-magazin.com). Das Mag liegt ab 23.08. am Kiosk auf.