Gabriele Steindl: Professional Kitesurfer & Freelance Writer - Action, Lifestyle & Travels
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Victory: One Foot Offshore Pipemistress 2008
Yeeeeeah, I’m super stoked about my victory at the Open Wakesurf Championships in Marbach, Lower Austria on the weekend, where my performance on the wake of a super pimp 350 horsepower Mastercraft speeing along the Danube secured me the title: ‘One Foot Offshore PIPEMISTRESS 2008’ !! Wakesurfing is gaining rapidly in popularity all around the […]
North Raceboard-Revolution at World Cup in St.Peter Ording
At the PKRA Kitesurf Worldcup in Skt. Peter-Ording the North Kiteboarding teamriders amongst them Charles Deleau, Sean Farley, Sky Solbach and Dirk Hanel were equipped with a new raceboard which will we released as a production board to the market in September. The board is designed for course racing and light wind and certainly proved its […]
DonauPIPEmasters – THE OPEN WAKESURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Never before held in Austria but with wakesurfing – just like wakeboarding only with a surfboard and a specially pimped up wake (extra weights on one side of the boat) – growing rapidly in popularity in landlocked austria, ‘Stylehunters’, an innovative event-agency, will hold the ‘Donaupipemasters’ or ‘ONE FOOT OFFSHORE’ Open Wakesurfing Championships. In cooperation […]
Indoing – great fun exercise 4 all board-freaks
The original Indo Board is the perfect all around balance trainer for any sport where balance would be key, such as surfing, skateboarding, wakeboarding – in fact, any athlete would benefit greatly from Indoing! The learning curve is quick, and the Indoboard can be used by beginners to pros – there’s always room to improve. […]
PKRA World Cup kickin’ off in Germany
After a three-week break, the PKRA riders are back in action for another exciting competition that will spice up the kiteboarding scene once more at the PKRA in St. Peter Ording, Germany. A total of 52 professional freestyle riders from 16 different countries will be competing in the main Freestyle event while 37 world-class racers representing […]
Grrrr, sickish in Vienna
Grrrr, Gabi has caught a cold. Yep, schniff, feeling hoooorrible 🙁 so weak, tired, muscle pains… Ok, I stop this is depressing, yeah? I felt the same thus I tried to lift my spirits and looked through some stupid postcards that I have bought in Australia. I have to present u my favorite, the surfing […]
Travel Tips for Kite-Chicks
As I already informed you a few days ago, the German kite-magazine Kiteboarding.de has dedicated a huge part of its most recent issue to the kite-chicks and the ones who would like to become one with a ‘Girls Special’. With 150 alltogether you certainly must not miss this months issue and that applies to the […]
Timeless video from 2004
I’m currently working on the video section for this brandnew version of www.kitegabi.com – that you currently looking at – and can tell you already that once finished it’s gonna be niiiiice, however, good things come to those who wait and thus I would like to ask you for your patience. In any case: today […]
’10 years of kitesurfing’-feature in IKSURFMAG
IKSURFMAG is a free online kite surfing magazine that focuses on all aspects of kite surfing. It is published every 2 months and is completely free to read. This free online kite surfing magazine has been running for a year now and is the most successful online magazine of its kind. With readers in over […]
Congratulations my 02alive team-mates Gosch & Horst!!
My 02alive team-mates, the pro-beachvolleyballers Alex Horst and Flo Gosch showed an exceptional performance at the Summer Olympics in Beijing today, finishing 5th and by that as the most successful male Austrian beachvolley-team ! After a rather unlucky start into the Olympic games – i.e. losing the first match against the top-rated team from China […]