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The PKRA kicks off its 2011 season with the return of the Hua Hin Kiteboarding World Cup in Thailand. Asia’s only Pro Kiteboarding event had an amazing success in 2010 and quoted by pro-riders as one of the best event setups in the history of Kiteboarding.
The registration day is Sunday March 13. Monday, March 14 through Saturday, March 19 the top riders in the world will compete in this Grand Slam event, featuring Freestyle, Course Racing, and Board Off disciplines. Last Year this mega-even at Hua Hin, being the first ever professional kiteboarding event in Asia, proved to be one of the best events of the entire world tour and therefore establishing itself as the new standard of kiteboarding competition.
Wow great pictures!
We went yesterday, it was a great day!
Good wind and nice and sunny.
My wife spoked to some kiteboarder from Holland. He said the weather was great but he liked some more wind!
We have also a lot of pictures made, but maybe later i try to post them.
(have to found out how first.)
Nice pics, it was a tad disappointing for me, got there yesterday at about 13.30 expecting to see the freestyle finals but it was all over. The program was very misleading, the final day just involved a 3 hour wait for the closing ceremony - very badly organized compared to last year IMO.
I hope they do a better job next year.
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They had very bad weather this year, most of the time light wind and 2 days of North-Eastern storm with heavy rain, gusty wind and high seas. Seems to me they need to move the event to be in February, much more predictable weather as KIteboard Tour Asia enjoyed in Paknampran earlier this year.
Saw a pile of them pitch up at Kung Oy's last week also quite a few stayed at Condo Chain. Made me ache just to watch how much gear they carried down to the beach
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