Damn, I haven't posted in a while. Been super busy... lots of fun times and crazy adventures! I was back down in Cape Hatteras, NC to do the 2011 Liquid Force Team Shoot! Couldn’t have been more happy to be a part of this for 2011! Liquid had an amazing house complete with a golf cart and a home theatre with seating for the whole team! Just minutes from Real Kiteboarding, we basically just hung out, rode and shot a bunch of footage for a whole month with a few side projects here and there! The Liquid Force Team is stacked with sick riders from all over the world, bringing different personalities and different steeze creating the perfect team environment! Kite legends like Sleezy, Morris, Moe and Mulcoy, wakestyle rippers Brandon Scheid, Chris Burke, James Boulding, and Petter Johnson, Young bloods Chad Worall and Aaron Abel and the ladies of the house were Nuria Goma, Lulu Vroman and Arla Funk. Throw Liquid Force mastermind Gary Siskar in the mix, photographer Bryan Elkus and videographer Nate Appel and the house was full with constant entertainment!
The first little bit we didn’t get the weather for banger footage that we were hoping for so we used our time wisely and started on the Liquid Force Recycled Slider Project! This project was from start to finish built with recycled materials from old jibs that had been laying around in the back yard at Real Kiteboarding for a few years now. When the project was finished, the wind turned back on and the sun crept out and we had a fresh wallride and kicker to session!
Now things were rolling and so was the footage! We had to get photos and video for the 2011 Product Campaign like ads, website, product catalogue and some other random stuff! We scored some epic sessions and the LF Team was getting loose while Bryan Elkus and Nate Appel were there to document all of it! Check out Nate Appels Teaser for “All of it” the 2011 Liquid Force Team Video!
Liquid Force 2011 Trailer from Nate Appel on Vimeo.
We got work done and wrapped up the shoot! It was time for the SSS to start... ohh shit! LF was nice enough to keep the house for an extra week so everybody had a place to stay! If you dont know what SSS is you gotta check it out! Jason Slezak and Real Kiteboarding put on week long kiteboarding event in which the top 24 riders in the world are invited. There are no rules or judges and everybody rides for however long and often as they please. It’s 7 days long with 7 bands and 7 killer parties and at the end of it your lucky to still be alive. On the final Saturday all the riders and media personel vote on who killed it the most and the awards are given out and the final mega party kicks off. All I can say it was complete kaos on the island that week and you may hear the stories but you’ll never know what SSS is all about until you get down there to expierience it for yourself! Just want to throw out some props to everybody involved in this event and to my good friend and Liquid team mate Brandon Scheid for holding it down and claiming the #1 spot! Brrrrap!
Check out the latest SBC Kiteboard Magazines section on SSS. There is a cool article and a shot of me hanging out with the crew at SSS!
Once SSS was finished up and there was calm again on the island I had a couple extra days to hang out with everybody and get some riding in before I had to dip. Nate, Brandon and I were hoping to get some more footage before we left but things never really came together. We did have some fun skate sessions though and the day before we left, the wind came up and we headed up to the slick for a couple hours! Hatteras was over for the spring... it really sunk in when Nate and I were sitting at the airport knowing we were heading back home. Such a fun crew and good people, the perfect place to push your riding... I’m missing Hatteras already!
Now it’s back to Ontario for the summer! When I arrived home the wind was strong which is not very common here in the summer!
I dropped my little aluminum fishing boat into the bay and headed out to the slicks! It was on for almost two weeks, minus a day here and there but then the regular summer weather kicked in. I've Been riding the 2011 Contact with the new U2‘s and it’s been really good in the conditions we’ve been having on the Great Lakes this summer, I've had a few sessions lately and it’s been pretty light but the Contact has been working really well for me!
Lately I’ve been working on getting the Long Point crew slider upgraded for some winching sessions! Can’t wait to get some hits in on it with a kite when the wind fills back in!
Keep checking back for more regular updates and if your looking for more kite photos check out www.BryanElkus.com or pick up a copy of SBC Kiteboard!
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