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Kenia: Kitesurfing 4 Charity

Kenia: Kitesurfing 4 Charity

What could be more beautiful than raising money for charity through ones greatest passion 🙂  !!

I felt really really privileged when I got invited to the Prosurf Extreme Kitesurf Charity Event, that took place at beautiful Nyali beach in Mombasa, Kenya, from 11.02.-15.02.2010.

Organized by Prosurf Extreme Watersports, the event’s schedule was action packed:
The competition that has been running for 5 years and boasts a highly innovative format that made it to me THE most fun comp that I’ve most probably ever been to. Bram Dierick, Manager of the Prosurf Extreme Watersports Centre   –  a fully equipped North Centre with all the latest toys and an extremely helpful, knowleagable team – did a phantastic job by putting it all together:  a sick slider and a kicker were built, we jumped over fire-rafts at night, a downwind race, big air, bikini-contest, North-demo day… oh man, sooo much fun!!

Yeah, JOY and all that photographed by one of the greatest action-sports photographers in the world: Christian Black from the UK ! It doesn’t come as a surprise that with the support of a dedicated team like at that event, Christian Black and myself, scored THE SICKEST PHOTO, which made it onto the COVER of the 10-Years Anniversary issue of Kiteboarding.eu Magazine, the leading German mag;   Yes, “Kitegabi on Fire”, when I jumped at night over a burning raft !

All the money raised during the event went to 2 organisations: M.E.A.K. –   Medical and Educational Aid to Kenya and the I.C.R.H., the International Centre for Reproductive Health.

Liquid Force team-rider Chris Burke took the first place in the Male-Pro category and I was super stoked about the first in the Female-Pro division. Read my article on this truly epic event right here on 10 pages in the leading german mag: Kiteboarding.eu as part of my personal column “Kite & the Planet” !

You can either download the pdf, print it out or read it online, up 2 you, simply scroll down and enjoy 🙂  !

I would like to take this opportunity to THANK Bram Dierick, his incredible crew at the Prosurf Extreme and of course North Kiteboarding, one of the main sponsor of the comp for making it all happen, it’s been an honour and true pleasure having been part of the event, even more so as it was for Charity and we managed to raise over 120.000 Kenya Shillings for a good cause, what could be nicer than doing that by the sport that we all love so much!

A Safari concluded this unforgettable event!  Y e a h, this has been on my  ‘List of Things-2-do-in-Life’ for a long, long time… now I can tick it off and it was THE most exciting adventure folks.   In 2 days I took about 2500 photos and that’s no joke, there’s quite a few of them in the article as well!

Also read up on my blogs that I wrote during the event, Blog 1, Blog 2, Blog 3, Blog 4.

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Urs Gabi