Last night was the evening of the Laureus awards here in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ceremony went pretty well with 3 locations splitting up the night.

First off we went to this new modern theatre in the center which held the actual awards, a lot of people turned up which was cool, I got to see Lewis Hamilton, Mika Hakkinen, Roger Federer, Tony Hawk and also met up with Robby Naish who is an academy member at Laureus.

Unfortunately I didn’t win the action sports category but being up against such great athletes I didn’t really expect it, I was just happy to be invited and be involved with the whole thing. Also there was a great edit played on the screen when the nominees were shown so I was well happy with that.

After that we went to this pretty fancy dinner and on to an after party. All in all is was good fun, it’s not often I’m dressed up in a suit and in Russia so it was a cool experience.

It’s a pretty mad country, it’s freezing right now, rivers are froze over and there’s snow every where, the city is amazing with high buildings lining the roads and loads of historic squares with old buildings and statues, a real nice place to visit.

Hopefully I will get the chance to come back and kitesurf sometime.

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