Wanna go for a Mustache Ride?

Check out the NA Blend's full edit from Brazil... Shot and edited by Josh Pietras! Featuring Sam Medysky, Rich Sabo, David Drinkwater, Brandon Scheid, Brian Smith, Elliot Drury and myself!

2012 ROCKSTAR EDIT from Craig Cunningham on Vimeo.

Stance Interview

Stance Kiteboarding Mag Interviewed Sam Medysky and myself about our travels throughout Asia! Here's the link...

http://www.stanceplanet.com/en/headlines/info-interview-with-sam-medysky-and-craig-cunningham-11047.html

Thanks to Dom Granger from Stance!

3'rd Place In KiteScoop Best Trick Contest

KiteScoop.com just ran the Kite Scoop Best Trick Contest and I entered two tricks from my recent trip to Brazil... a Shifty 315 and an Ole 7 to Blind! The Shifty 315 made it into the voting round and I was pretty stoked to come in 3'rd place!!!

Check out the entry here...

ROCKSTAR ENERGY Kiteboard Promo Edit

Short promotional edit I did for Rockstar Energy Drink! Mostly footage from the Philippines and Brazil at the end of 2011!!!

2012 ROCKSTAR EDIT from Craig Cunningham on Vimeo.

Brazil 2011

So been down in Brazil for about 3 weeks now... I cruised down with Sam Medysky and our good friend and photographer/videographer Josh Pietras! After a full day of traveling we ended up at our friends Nuria Goma and Dave Romeo beautiful home in Taiba on the Ceara Coast where we met up with some of the NA Blend crew! Brandon Schied and Rich Sabo had already arrived before us and were hungry to start shooting and riding!

The conditions don't get much better then here in Brazil for freestyle/wakestyle kiteboarding! Warm and windy everyday, multiple flat water lagoons and nice kickers as well if you go search for them! The main lagoon in Taiba was closed to the ocean (which is good making it non tidal) and has been growing daily... perfect!!! It's only a one minute down winder from our house or a couple minutes to drive so we've been spending a LOT of time down there! The 2012 Liquid Force gear is working great and looks amazing lit up by the by the blazing Brazilian sun! I'm on the Envy and DLX again and couldn't be more stoked with the gear for this year!

By the end of the first week everyone was already on there game, dust was brushed off and it was on! After a couple weeks a shreding everyday a few more friends rolled into town and we now had a mob of kiters wherever we were riding! Dave Drinkwater, Brian "BCS" Smith, Kris Kinn and Lia Feriancek were the new editions to the crew!

The level in the lagoon is getting pushed everyday! Lots of new tricks being tossed by everyone and Josh is out there logging footy day in and day out! Watch out for some sick edits coming out of this trip and lots of photos in coming issues for sure!

Liquid Force team mate James Boulding dropped into town for a few days to ride and chill before he had to dip out to the south for some film work shooting a surf event. James, Brandon and I spent about 4 hours at the lagoon that day and it's crazy how well it came out! Steeze Productions is really not messing around! 3,ooo hits in 3 hours and it's almost at 10,000 hits after 3 days days! Will definitely be interesting to see what we could do in the future with a few weeks of filming with James...

Couple days after we shot the Taiba Trick Attack we headed north on a road trip to Ilha du Gurajuaru! Pretty cool spot but not the flat water haven I was expecting... Sounds like were going to grab a buggy and do some exploring up and down the coast from the main spot where apparently there are a bunch of nice flat water spots and river mouths! Will definitely be updating this again soon... Have 3 more weeks in Brazil so check back soon!

1'st Place at Wake Up Call & 1'st at KiteJam!

So been at home pretty much all summer since I got back from Cape Hatteras... it's been a lot of fun riding my home spots, hitting up the Canadian events and catching up with all my bro's! We haven't had a tonne of wind this summer so I have been trying to ride the 2.0 systems that have been popping up here in Ontario waiting for some more consistent fall winds!

Boarder Pass in Sarnia the closest of the 2.0 systems is 2.5 hours from my place and it was holding an event called Wake Up Call. A few of the locals I was riding with told me that I should enter... I knew a bunch of the heavy hitters from the Canadian wake scene would be there and thought I'd get killed for sure... but having a bunch of air tricks in my bag from kiting and sneaking in some practice on the rails the day before the event really helped and I managed to take 1'st place, so I was was pretty stoked on that for my first cable event!!! Results were;

1st - Craig Cunningham

2nd - Christean Primrose

3rd - Tim Nixon

4th - Dylan Rivait

Not long after a few of our friends from the States rolled in to check out some of our local spots for a little while before the Sauble Beach KiteJam kicked off! Eric Rienstra, Rich Sabo and Ryan Evans joined the crew which pretty much is a circus when Medysky, Drinkwater, Steiner and myself get together as well as Josh Pietras along with David Tran behind the lens! We didn't really get any epic conditions and it was kinda cold but we definitely had a good time shredding together again! We hit up Turkey Point Marina, Port Dover, The Ranch Wake Park, Sauble Beach and Oliphant all within about a week and then it was time for the event.

The wind was pretty light most the weekend but some of the race guys got on the water but I mostly stuck to hitting rails behind the jetski and doing some speed runs and power slides on the kite buggy! We didn't have enough wind for our biggest kites so the event was to be determined by a competition behind the ski on the features ! There was a 8 inch wide flatbar with a pretty heavy ollie on, a flat to gap to down and a incline box... you had 4 runs through and the best line won. You basically had to string together a solid hit on every obstacle one after the other or you were done. I did a nose press, tail tap to blind on the flat bar, back board, gap, back lipslide to blind on the gap rail and a switch toe front 5 of the incline and that was enough to secure the win!!! Results were;

1st - Craig Cunningham

2nd - David Drinkwater

3rd - Eric Rienstra

4th - Rich Sabo

Just want to say thanks to the Medysky family for having the whole crew chillin at their place all week and for putting on such a fun event! Cheers!!!

After the event Rienstra and Sabo came down to Port Dover for a session and then Sabo dipped back to Merca (USA)! Rienstra stuck around and we've been shooting some lifestyle stuff with Josh Pietras and are heading to the King Of The Great Lakes this weekend... with maybe a stop at Boarder Pass Wake Park and Placid Wake Park if the wind is still looking light! Either way were shredding!

Thanks to Josh Pietras, David Tran and Dave Sanford for the photos!

Kitespain Issue #15 - English Version Is Out!

The English version of KiteSpain Magazine latest issue has now dropped! You can now read the 14 page article on fellow Liquid Force team rider Brandon Scheid and myself even if you cant read Spanish! Pages 55 - 68! Peep it... http://www.kitespain.com/english/online.html