Two weeks kiting around the island

Welcome back in Tahiti from Chastagnol Guillaume on Vimeo.

Hello kiters,

Me ,my wife Titaua and Kailea my daughter are back in our second home in French Polynesia.

at first the wind was not at the rendez-vous yet, but after 3 weeks waiting, especially for the custom to deliver me our news edge kites, the wind came with some great swell, and now it's been non stop riding on our 9m edge since two weeks around some perfect spots.

i actually just finished the editing of a new video where i tried different view with the gopro. So even if there's no hard core stuff yet in, it's still good to see this paradise island where we are 5 kiters now , some perfect flat spots, the lagoon is just enormous and the waves are barreling , perfect long and fast as we love.

My Edge kite are just too great once again for those fast waves, i think it's the perfect toys for our kind of conditions ;( Thanks ROB once again ) , i've been using the 13m edge for few days , i put straight away the back lines to get more bar pressure on +, and as everybody said it's a really fast kite, there's no speed limit if you're on the right spot, i should grab a gps one day just to see, it should be interesting.
the 9m edge is just the machine, for sure everything has been improved to go more up wind and to get more air time jump, not like on the snow yet, but it's good enough for me when i hit a wave.

I really like the design , everything is more simple on the kite and also on the bar. It's so easy to lunch the kite by yourself i love it and i never had any problem to release the security when i finish the session.

o yeah i forgot but one day mother nature decided that i had to try my 17m Zephir, i was so amazed on how easy it was to lunch with such a big kite, i remember few years ago with some other brand, was not the same story for lunching.

the wind was 10 to 12 knots and i was just cruising full speed on the lagoon trying few tricks like on my 13m edge, almost...I'm really happy to have that one in my quiver.

For now i have to spend some time here (poor me) and working on a project with Redbull for the next surf competition in Teahupoo with the local surfer Michel Bourrez who is in the world top 15 on pro tour.

o yes last week i had a good surprise from Tam my brother in law, someone call me and said ,"hey bro Tam is in town",i was surprise , there was no plane that day, and i saw Tam on this huge old boat, like a old conoe, and the story was crazy see it in the news, so the day after we went kiting togheter on the east cost some perfect waves and shredding the lagoon with some big tricks and jumping over this small island. Thank you Tam to be my photographer some time.

so now check out the video and enjoy the summer

Ciao les boys

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