On the front cover picture : Johann Civel ripping in Cervières, France, during the 2014 OZONE photoshooting.
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Kiter : Baris Düldül Turkey
http://www.facebook.com/duldul High class blue hotel in the background :
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Erciyes Volcano. Turkey. Hello everybody from snowkiting gangs. This issue #14 of WKS is about our snowkiting trip in Turkey during two weeks on last 2013 march. You’ll find as well a «BONUS» report featuring the 2014 OZONE photoshooting in Serre-Chevalier, Lautaret, Montgenèvre, in the southern french Alps during last april. That is the first WKS issue for this new 2014 winter coming soon. Here in France, the snowy weather is announced and the snowkiting kick-off is due to the end of this week. Well, it’s been a while since the last WKS #13 issue as I was always on the roads or trips during all the end of the past season. Sorry folks. But here we are now, the new season is starting, find along the further pages some snowkiting photos and handy infos. Don’t hesitate to click the links coming onto the pages to reach the kiters’ or companies’ website. Thank you for reading :-) Cheers,
Pascal Boulgakoff
Kiter : Marek MURPHY Zach
Czech Republic
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Erciyes Volcano. Turkey. Close to Kayseri in the center of Turkey country, the Erciyes resort is a real great snowkiting spot. Pretty easy to get there, not expansive accomodations, starting kiting right next to the hotel, open wide areas with gentle slopes, big volcano for high-mountain atmosphere, you will be really happy to plan a journey in winter for sure.
Kiter : Stefano Gigli Italia
http://www.stefanogigli.com
For the 4th winter, I’m lucky enough to be invited in the Erciyes resort by MISTER Murat Bßkey who is the OZONE kites distributor in Turkey. Really good kitesurfer, pretty easy on the snow as well, Murat always makes his best to organize the week with all the comfort and perfect scheddule about every points in order to offer an unforgettable snowkiting trip to his guests. If the Turkish coasts are already famous for kitesurfing, there are more and more local snowkiters who join our week, year after year. The level is pretty high and some of the Turkish freestylers can make real good show on the kickers in front of the resort. Murat is making great job to push the snowkiting sport growing up step by step for now the past 5 years.
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The main person here in the ERCIYES resort is Mister Mehmet Eglenceoglu on the left, here with Baris Düldül teaching. Owner of the Arlberg Sport center, with ski-shop, restaurant, accomodations, Mr Mehmet was international turkish team race-ski competitor and here managed to cruise around with the Ozone Access kite immediately after few minutes practising. Well, if you plan to go snowkiting at Erciyes volcano, don’t hesitate to contact the Arlberg ski & snowboard center for booking your room. Baris here on the right, is kite instructor and more on the terrain. Always kiting with us, Baris as well was in charge about organizing every moment of our trip with Murat Bükey. Big Up to Baris !!!! :-)
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That was my 4th time here in Erciyes for snowkiting. Always invited by Murat Bßkey. Every time I had really great sessions around. During the two past years, the snowpack was very big. All these slopes we can see in the background were covered of huge amount of fresh snow. This is the second time here with not so much snowpack, only the first time, four years ago, was as well not so cold. Anyway, this is the bottom of the resort, about 1.800m elevation and from the Arlberg Hotel, we can go cruising up toward the Erciyes Volcano slopes and up-there is always a very lot of snow. Don’t hesitate to click the link on the top left of this double-page, this is the good way to look at the 2013 Erciyes video about our week here.
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Here are the best friends for finding unbelievable ideas all the time. Marek sliding the tube he found under the snow. And Kari lying into for a perfect funny picture. When traveling with them, I often ear ÂŤHey, Pascal, listen, I have an idea...Âť So, of course I go for it to get the best photos as possible :-)
Kiter : Kari Schibevaag Norway
Kiter : Johann Civel
France
Luckily it’s possible to trust the weather forecast in Turkey. So, for the second year, we planed to have a snowkiting dayoff when all the medias were announcing a 12 hours no-wind window. So we went visiting the Capadoccia villages. Here is Ürgüp, which is our favorite, although all the other villages are as well amazing. Pomegranate fruit juice is the best here and we can have a glass, straight from the fruit, when meeting the shops along our road or stops near the tourist places.
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For the first time after 3 seasons, we finaly managed to reach the summit of the Erciyes volcano, 3.916m. Southern wind is needed and we never got it before. So, even if it’s super hard to cruise along the volcano bottom slopes from the resort to this southern face here on the picture, it was a strong feeling to reach the summit with very dangerous wind. I wish you to make it.
Kiter : Wareck Arnaud France
Here is one kind of ÂŤideaÂť which can come from Kari (on the right) and Murphy (above). They found these bear-suits in the Arlberg Sport Hotel, so decided to have a freestyle session with funny story-telling for the RideUp video. Not seen yet but for sure will come out sooner of later. Anyway, you can check out a short part in the 2013 Erciyes movie I edited last april from the link on the pages before. Incredible Kari & Murphy Punk.
Kiter : Kari Schibevaag Norway
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Kiter : Marek MURPHY Zach
«White Kite Sessions» was proud to be part of the 2014 OZONE photoshooting last april in France. A spring week with the new kite models and the international team-mates for high-level sessions and cool images about our snowkiting sport. Let’s have a look at that.
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Set in Serre-Chevalier, the photoshooting brought us to the best places around depending of the wind conditions. Lautaret was one of the spots. Cervières as well (photo here). But the main area was in Montgenèvre. We had to take the chairlift and then ready to climb the big ridges from the top of the resort. High mountains, freestyle, cruising, all in one every day.
Kiter : Dominik Zimmermann Germany
This not so often we can spend some sessions with the international crew. Iain Hannay from Spain, on the top left, is the Ozone manager now and was taking care about each of us for the best comfort as possible. Bottom left, here is Dominik Zimmermann from Germany who was organising every details for this shooting. Collecting the kite models with all sizes, booking the accomodation, dispatching the kiters with the cars, checking out what is done and what’s remaining to do. Dom, high-level kiter, was the man for this event. With orange jacket and photo-camera, here is Wareck Arnaud, official Ozone photographer and top-level kiter. You can have a look at the Wareck’s images on the flyozone.com website or 2014 brochure. Bottom right, we are happy to welcome Hugues Beaume as team-kiter during the week. Hugues is a local gunner and always reaching the ultimate peaks around Lautaret, Cervières or Queyras.
A special page for the younger competitor of PKRA world championships, Patrick Blanc from Spain. Patrick was competing at the Snowkitemasters as well in the past years but now is mainly into kitesurfing for world top level sessions or filming. So that was really great to have Patrick with us during the first days although he hasn’t been lucky with the weather as you can see on the picture. Anyway, he performed really strong. I’ve been checking everywhere to find a link for the Patrick’s home-page but didn’t get any. Sorry guys.
You already know Johann Civel as we saw him during the Erciyes report. Johann is the real local guy here for this photoshooting. On the picture, this is the Chenaillet ridge and Jojo was the first with Wareck and RĂŠmi Dineur to reach the summit with the kites. Johann was our guide during all the week as he knows the terrain and the snow conditions really well. Check with the link below his home page as snowkiting guide :
www.johanncivel.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLO-V79bgtY A few words about the kites. First, the entry level model : Access. This kite is the more stable, safe, soft, that you can find on the market. The performance is not the top but sincerely I don’t think any kiter will feel it too much slow or the precision not high enough for cruising in the mountains. My opinion is that the ACCESS is the best kite for the beginners for sure but as well for about 80% of the snowkiters. Click the link above to see the video and read the technical details coming below the movie on Youtube page.
Kiter : Hugues Beaume France
The legendary FRENZY is really perfect with this 2014 issue. For sure the best kite for snow, ever. That’s it, that’s all. Each point of the testing list is offering the ultimate result as possible. I’m no more the exclusive photographer for Ozone now, and a little bit upset with the headquarters, so you can trust me ;-)
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Kiter : Johann Civel
France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPCMNwE53eQ Why producing the SUMMIT if the Frenzy is the best kite ever? Because some kiters, a very small part of them, are expecting more ;-) And that is the case with SUMMIT about the speed, the power, the fast reactions. Perfect for the top-level freestylers. Not sure that the name ÂŤSummitÂť is . the right one as when reaching the top of the peaks, we need a stable and smooth kite. Anyway, the Summit is an outstanding product, definitely.
Kiter : Johann Civel
France
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You’re reading the issue #14 of «White Kite Sessions» online webzine. Last season 13 issues went out along the winter monthes. Starting from the first sessions late september here in France, and keeping the readers up to dated after every trip abroad, or cool event in France. If you miss some of them, if you’re new comer here at WKS, you can have a look at the stories, the photos, infos, links, details, tips, portraits, well, everything which is part of our snowkiting sport. Incredible !
Many thanks to the main french kiting website FLYSURF.COM for running a partnership with WKS. Forum, News, Shop, Second hand, Reports : click the link below to enter the game !!! (Photo : Johann Civel will reach the top :-)
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This is the end. The next issue will come out, but I definitely don’t know when... So stay tuned dudes. Thank you veeery much for your interest. Keep careful with your kite. Cheers.
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Kiter : Hugues Beaume France