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The winds on Wednesday went nuclear. Hennie, Basil, Sebastien, Alex, Charlotte, Christophe, Manu, Sophie and Tim all hit the water. Brave, because the wind was gusting to almost 55 knots.
Everyone experienced the biggest challenge for speed-sailing with a kiteboard: while almost no other watercraft can race in wind as strong as this, it brings its own limitations. Going really, really fast is easy (for a highly trained expert…). Crashing very hard is even easier.
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One of Stoked News.com’s new MySpace friends, artist Mollie Mason, enjoying herself at Lake Tahoe
The first real training day of the 2009 Lüderitz Speed challenge began on Sunday, October 25th, for the riders who had already arrived, including: Felipe Johannpeter of Brazil; Basil Cambanis, Sjoukie Bredenkamp and Hennie Bredenkamp of South Africa, Peter Bjarke, Olsen of Denmark, Stefan Metzger of Namibia, as well as Sèbastien Cattelan, Sophie Routaboul, and Marc Antoine Martin of France.
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With the wind blowing between 35 and 40 knots, the new competitors were …Â Details