#kitelandboarding

This weekend, the German Kitelandboarding Championships took place at Wanlo near Mönchengladbach. Unfortunately, the weather conditions were pretty bad with strong rain falling in the night between Friday and Saturday, so the whole place was rain-sodden. In addition to that, there was not enough wind during the whole weekend so that only two races could be finished.

After a strong season in both race and freestyle, Windfinder.com teamrider Emmanuel Norman became German Champion 2009 in Kitelandboarding Freestyle and second in Kitelandboarding Race. Congratulations to Emmanuel for a great season, and thanks to all the organizers of all the events for their work! Windfinder will continue to give you the latest information about Kitelandboarding next year.

If you are Kitelandboarding especially in Germany, you will for sure already have heard of Emmanuel Norman. The 17 year old German is one of the finest talents in Kitelandboarding right now - maybe because he started really early in 2002 and is kiting hard since that time, for example last year he finished third in the German Kitelandboarding Championships. Emmanuel is sponsored by Flysurfer, Kitejunkie.com, Anarkite, Schwerelosigkite and since some weeks also by Windfinder.com!

In his first competition after joining the Windfinder team, he won the third tour stop at Nordstrand for the German Kitelandboarding Championships. Despite the strong wind conditions, he showed harder and more radical tricks than the other competitors and thus won the freestyle competition. In the race competition, he also finished in third place. This put him into first place in the tour rankings both in freestyle as well as in the race rankings. Congratulations to Emmanuel!