Gabriele Steindl: Professional Kitesurfer & Freelance Writer - Action, Lifestyle & Travels
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One of the greatest shots of all times!
Kiteboarding US magazine just published a double page spread of one of my greatest photos of all times. Thanx to my dear mate Ian Trafford from Newzealand, amongst the top-photographers in Australasia, we managed to get this sick shot of a kangaroo and me kiting in the beautiful colours of Cape Le Grande National Park […]
New Rebel 09 !!
Sick…fasten your seatbelts guys, this is gonna be THE KITE OF THE CENTURY !! The 2009 Rebel is bashing down the barriers of free-riding and surfing! The clean, simple 5 line design delivers smooth, reactive steering, extreme resistance to back-stalling when over-sheeted and the most direct bar feedback yet. Our unique quad strut configuration produces […]
NEW ARMY of NKB Waveboards!
…soon folks, soon… good things come to those who wait: North Kiteboarding strikes yet again with the most state-of-the-art army of waveboards shaped by ‘waveboard Godfather’ Marty Littlewood from Margaret River, W.A. I’m super stoked for my team mates Sky, Jeremy, and Dreu and their pro-model waveboards and can’t wait to rip’it up the surf […]
New product launch: O2alive SPORT !!!
O2 alive sport – the functional water, hitting shops, niiiiice !!! Why functional? Because O2 alive sport not only shocks with great taste it also contains 500% more oxygen than normal water plus important additional mineral nutrients: • Magnesium: 45mg/100ml O2 alive sport covers 15% of the recommended daily dose • Potassium: 30mg/100ml O2 alive […]
BRANDNEW Girlie Action magazine out NOW !!
A brandnew magazine just got onto the market: with a great concept and team behind and most importantly published for all the board-chicks in this World!! Yeah no matter if it’s surfboards of all sizes, short-, long-…, snowboards, kite-, windsurf… it’s for the girls which the title makes quite obvious too: GirLand … it goes […]
From Dusk till Dawn
Sweet, Kitesurf UK magazine just published my article about the truly memorable trip that took me many thousand of kilometres through Russia last year, leaving me thrilled with new impressions about a country that is most probably unknown to most of you. I titled the article from Dusk till Dawn as the ‘real’ journey started […]
2 pages in AUT’s newspaper no.1
Yeah, wow, I am so extremely stoked!! Austrias most widely read newpapers with the highest reader numbers nationwide by f a r published 2 full pages – in that, in the ‘Weekend Special’ (the coloured supplement that comes with the paper on Sundays !!! thus: even more readers than on weekdays !!! – […]
Kitesurf OEM Traunsee, Austria
Lake Traun (Traunsee) in Upper Austria’s breathtakingly beautiful Salkammergut-region was hosting the first part of the 2008 National Championships. The event that was held over 3 days was blessed with sunshine and almost tropical temperatures, lots-a-good vibes, nice crew, however, unfortunately what was missing (as so often during competitions): the so needed wind !? In […]
Interview mit Dreu Beavis (AUS)
I met Dreu Beavis during my trip through Western Australia and had a chance to interview the 21 year old Australian and winner of the PKRA Wave World Cup (an ‘Invitational’ event for the top 24 male wavekiting-heroes of todays) in Chile in September last year. Nobody has really heard about Dreu before that PKRA […]
‘She who is dancing with kites’
…is the literal translation of this 6 page feature on Kitegabi, FINALLY! 6 years I had to wait for this acknowledgement in my home turfs prime media .. now bigger and more beautiful than I could have wished for: Kitegabi featured in Austria’s prestigious ‘Sportmagazin’. The ‘Sportmagazin’ is Austria’s leading sports publication, a glossy magazine […]