This is a warn up run in the speed channel of Luderizt, the wind this year was not as good as the year before, plus the channel was not that good too and to many people in line, last year we could do a run every 15 min, this year not less that 45 min of waiting time to go,………
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A tale of courage – the road to redemption. Two boogieboarders, two Swell Hunters
Actors: Ted O’Connor, Chris Hargreaves, George O’Connor, Tim Byrne, Pat Gibney
Exactly one month ago, on September 28, I broke my ACL while kiting in Egypt. This event has ended my season and forced me to quit all my travel and filming projects scheduled for the winter. Nevertheless, we have managed to get a little bit of footage from one warm up session, the day before my accident. I can’t wait to be riding again, and to be as stoked as I was on the water that day.
On Sunday, a group of four women rolled up to the U.S./Mexico border on their skateboards just south of San Diego. They had spent the last 16 days on their boards, pushing down the 300 miles of California coastline that separates Santa Barbara from the Mexican border. The founders of a nonprofit known as Duchess Ride, they had completed the feat for a unique cause: empowering young women by encouraging them to skate, snowboard and surf as hard as they possibly can.
Claire Altenau, 28; Carissa Bisnar, 32; Carly Finke, 23; and Jaime Schulte, 26, are the co-founders of Duchess Ride. Altenau, Finke and Schulte met Bisnar while on a chairlift in Utah and bonded over their love of supporting fellow female snowboarders.
“Claire and I had grown up riding together in Colorado,” Schulte told … More