The first thing I wanted to do was to make a wave kickers only video , this unfortunately barely exists in kiteboarding so it only felt right to start there . Autofocus had a banger section in DR Encuentro (‘ 04 ?), I was blown away as a kid and this was the first video I saw where I thought , now that makes sense !
The second thing I wanted to do this year was to give features a go . I ’ ve done it before , but not to an extend where I would put all my focus on it . After filming the episode I went back to Hood River and stayed there another month to really get decent at park riding , especially progressing on the rails .
The third thing I wanted to have was my overall stoke back on airtricks . I pretty much ignored all my airtricks so I would get hungry to do them again by the time we would film in Brazil . I wanted to adapt my riding , get a bigger trick list , do more switch , more grabs , just do the tricks I want to do that ’ s it , simple plan actually .
With ups and downs we succeeded , releasing the 3rd episode now in December focussed on airtricks . The episode are online on www . mowglisjungle . com and will be used by SES on their Demo 4K broadcasting channels and re released on Redbull . tv channel
Besides Sam Van Olmen as director we had Philip Tack as 2nd Cameramen ( water housing ) in Cabarete and photographer . And in Brazil we had Marian Hund who is an amazing drone operator sponsored by Yuneec Drones .
Next year we hope to excel this season , we ’ re having 2 main video project idea ’ s now in mind and currently working it out .
Big thank you to everybody who was involved in the project , it ’ s been quite an experience , can ’ t wait for what the future brings .