Kitepix Magazine | Page 96

Mondial DuVent 2015 Since I started to kite around 14 years ago, I have always followed kite events around the UK, Europe and the world. It is my background and how I got into the sport, going to all the events my dad organised around Europe, and growing up amongst the crowd of world class riders of that era. Aaron Hadlow, 2014 King of the Air, Kevin Langaree and all-round big air legend Nick Jacobson. So when I was invited to attend the Mondial Du Vent, Leucate in the South of France I jumped at the opportunity! I knew of the event quite well and it had always been on my list of must go spots! To add to the excitement the guys from Kitepix were going to be running a live feed and had asked me to commentate on the action. This was such an amazing opportunity! Unfortunately this year the PKRA wasn’t going to be held at the event, but there was to be a big air event which had attracted some of the industry’s biggest names such as 5 times world champion I very rarely miss a PKRA live feed, and was gutted when Red Bull pulled the live feed at the King of the Air. I grew into the sport when Lewis Crathern was competing on the British tour (and winning I travelled down overnight with the team from Kitepix, it was one hell of a journey but after our first session at Etang De La Palme, it was all so worth it!