Photo Of The Day!!!

[ricki]

Wave-o-rama and all captured with a GoPro HD camera.
Nice job guys!




And, if you miss December, cooler times (windier too),
the same fellow put something together in homage of
a white Christmas (in Oahu). Almost looks like Greg
Noll riding in some of those wave shots.

[Anto]

Wahou, I missed this topic, awesome videos, thank you for sharing it!

Originally Posted by RickI

Wave-o-rama and all captured with a GoPro HD camera.

The GoPro HD is really amazing, I love watching this kind of videos, I think I will buy it soon.

[ricki]

Yes, the HD does provide unusual access to nice images at a great price! Quite a few more GoPro video clips many with the previous WIDE model underwater at: http://fksa.org/forumdisplay.php?f=92 (usually with a green arrow on the subject line).

[ricki]

Not getting enough kiting miles in? Join the club on the other hand jeremie eloy seems to be exploring a good chunk of the planet ala kite.


Bahamas



Durban, SA and Mozambique in some nice waves



Snowkiting in Iceland



Wave riding in Oz



Going off in Guincho Portugal

[linhster]

I am amazed that board leash was used for the flat water condition (Bahamas). Both riders were quite skilled. I wondering

[ricki]

Hard to say why. Could be the meter was running on the expensive helicopter and videographer doing the fly overs and they were worried about board retrieval delays? They can have ripping tidal currents in some of the cuts over there, didn't notice any of those however. In distance races in waves some use them but it is best to avoid jumping, not so in this case. Also, it was a simple surfboard leash too, don't know if he used a weak link either. Anyone understand French, is this a trailer for a longer video?

Originally Posted by linhster

I am amazed that board leash was used for the flat water condition (Bahamas). Both riders were quite skilled. I wondering

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Originally Posted by RickI

Yes, the HD does provide unusual access to nice images at a great price! Quite a few more GoPro video clips many with the previous WIDE model underwater at: http://fksa.org/forumdisplay.php?f=92 (usually with a green arrow on the subject line).

Great I will take a look, thanks.

Originally Posted by RickI

Anyone understand French, is this a trailer for a longer video?

I can't watch the video right now but I will do it tonight and I let you know.
By the way I really like what he does, he has a cool website (http://jeremieeloykiteboarding.com/) with many new articles in EN/FR, I spoke with him once and it seems very cool. I love watching kiteboarders waves-riding (unfortunately I don't have yet the level to do the same, but I hope it will change one day ^^), and he does a lot of very great waves videos IMO.

Otherwise, I don't know if you already put this video of Mitu Monteiro (Fone) on this topic but I really like it:


Manera in Cabo Verde

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Originally Posted by RickI

Hard to say why. Could be the meter was running on the expensive helicopter and videographer doing the fly overs and they were worried about board retrieval delays? They can have ripping tidal currents in some of the cuts over there, didn't notice any of those however. In distance races in waves some use them but it is best to avoid jumping, not so in this case. Also, it was a simple surfboard leash too, don't know if he used a weak link either. Anyone understand French, is this a trailer for a longer video?

The video is a trailer for a french documentary "Ushuaia Nature"; it is not about kitesurf but about the nature, so there is just few minutes of kitesurfing (you can see the full docu here http://medirama.net/index.php?get=vo...rre-sest-noyee)

The other guy with Jeremie is Nicolas Hulot, a french journalist very famous (not the new JJ Cousteau, but very famous in France )

Regarding the leash, I think only the journalist has it? And it seems that they didn't have a lot of wind.