I came to Chile a couple of days prior to the event, I stayed in the city for the first day and that evening met up with Buster and Shati from Tronolone Productions and also met up with the organizers of the event who were super cool guys.
The next day we hit the slopes which is about 1 hour from Santiago, Chile is a well sick place and the only place I have been with wind, water, wave and snow all with in 2 hours of each other. Also the city is great and the people are cool.
I had never been snowboarding before so it was so good to be doing something new, after a couple of goes I got the hang of it and about 5 runs in I was hitting the Black slopes with the boys, Buster is an amazing boarder and both the guys helped me out and got me going with in minutes.
The day was epic, check out the pics below, I ended up doing a mute and stalefish grab over the jump and also got a backside 180 up and across this snow bank.
Now I am off to the event site for registration, the forecast is good and big waves are expected, the spot looks good so lets hope it all goes well.
There is next to nothing down there and apparently no Internet but when I am back in city I will let you know what’s up.
Ltr.

Sorry that I fell off the face of the earth for a while I have been in the North of Brazil with hardly any Internet.
I’m in a bit of a rush but to let you know quick I was up in Sao Luis for a RedBull competition that was all about endurance. I ended up in second behind Ruben. I started about 40 seconds behind him and ended up abut 15-20 behind him by the end, I got a couple of harsh deals, I dropped my kite and tripped an edge on the way which was a shame cause it would have been fun to have had a closer finish with him. It was still loads of fun though, we had to ride about 8km, then run over dunes for 3-4km, then kite another 8 or so. It was well harsh and difficult but it was great fun.
After that we ended up taking a 4×4 to the PKRA competition that was South of the event we were just at.
The conditions there were better than any other Brazil event in the past, mainly cause there was loads of wind, I ended using my 7 most of the time.
In the singles I had a pretty epic day, I was well confident with my riding and had fun getting to the finals, I came up against Kevin and had a decent heat, I went for it as hard as possible but got harsh deals on some landings, The highlight was a KiteLoop grab 5, KiteLoop Bosch Mobe and a proper Front-Mobe 7-Heal-side, these were the moves that wasn’t landed so well allow I managed a load of other powered tricks. I though it was a really close heat but the judges seemed to reward quantity over risk factor which gave Kevin the win.
In the doubles I came straight up against Alex Pastor who had come up through the double. I had a great heat. I started off with some passes-wrapped and blind with kite a bit higher, just to prove that it’s not so difficult, then moved on to some harder more powered, tweaked moves, which is more my style of riding at the minute and what I think looks way better. I got a powered switch KGB, nailed all my moves super fast and powered and also went for a Whirly 3 although that wasn’t quite landed.
I was well please with myself and was pretty sure I had made it through, every time I looked around at the other guy I saw that he had crashed or butt-checked, but I guess I missed a few of his moves.
Unfortunately the judges gave a 4-1 decision against me, which was hard to believe, they said he done a couple of double passes although I thought his kite was really high.
I guess that’s just the way it goes some time, hopefully I’ll get some better luck in Chile.
Will let you know. Ltr.