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Rum Cay Article THEKITEBOARDER.COM The Best Kept Secret of the Bahamas Rum Cay: FROM REP TO DESIGNER: SLINGSHOt’S AMERY BERNARD MAKING A DIFFERENCE SOUTH OF THE BORDER HOT NEW PRODUCTS 23FOR 2011 THIS LIQUID IS FORCE SURF rider: JULIEN photo: SKIP BOARDS FILLION BANKS LIQUIDFORCEKITES.COM 2 THEKITEBOARDER.COM THEKITEBOARDER.COM 3 DEPARTMENTS Liquid Force 30 Close Up rider Jan Wainman Hawaii’s Spencer Lujan and North’s THEKITEBOARDER.COM Schiegnitz called Megan O’Leary. this session at Harmanus in 58 Designer’s Corner South Africa the Tech out with designers on seven new The Best Kept spring releases. best session of Secret of the Bahamas his life. Photo Rum Cay: 64 Analyze This Jens Hogenkamp TKB’s verdict on seven new 2011 products. FROM REP TO DESIGNER: SLINGSHOt’S AMERY BERNARD 71 Workbench MAKING A DIFFERENCE SOUTH OF THE BORDER Rider: Peter Schiebel HOT NEW PRODUCTS 23FOR 2011 Ghetto fixes to get you back on the water. Kirsty Jones grabs a surf session in Mauritius. Photo Ocean Therapy 5’10” TRESPASS 9M SPITFIRE 5’10” TRESPASS LAUNCH Zach Kleppe entertains the crowd with a particularly good wipeout. The new Kitehero Fin Mount is a solid way to attach your BOARD MOUNTS FEATURESGoPro to your twin tip. Photo Jim Stringfellow For mounting a GoPro to your twin tip, the all new Kitehero Fin Mount is a much safer and more secure alternative solution to GoPro’s adhesive disk mount. Utilizing the standard fin holes on virtually any kiteboard or wakeboard, the durable low profile plastic base gives riders an unobtrusive way to mount a camera to their deck. When mounting the GoPro to their board, one of the biggest problems users were experiencing was housing failures. Riders were either breaking latches, housings, mounts, or just simply losing their camera completely. After months of development on a 2011new mount L solution,A we came up with a unique way to encapsulate the GoPro housing in a durable shell that secures the camera by nesting the housing and 12 holding it by the body of the40 housing rather than putting stress on the two mounting ears. Kiteboarding is an extreme sport and water impacts can put excessive forces on your boards. VENtaThis mountN holdsA the camera sideways, which allows the user to position it close to the rider while giving the ability to get the complete wide angle view all the way up to the kite. The GET FOCUSED! new fin mount utilizes the fin hole screws, which is a standard within the kiteboarding and wakeboarding industries. When using this new mount, you should get new screws that are How to get better ClaSSIapproximatelyC ¼” longer to accommodate for the new thickness of the mounting system. As far as surfboard mounts go, both GoPro and Contour have a sticky disk system which allows Craig Van Der Westhuizen cruises by the trusty vessel Rock Steady. you to mount your camera system to just about any decently flat surface. Mounting the disk photos and video of AND KITEXPOfar enough away from the rider on the nose of the board will give you a full view. On shorter twin-tip kiteboards we have found it a little bit harder to capture everything at once. The only disadvantage to this setup is that the sticky disk can possibly ruin a surfboard if you try to yourself. Baja deliversremove it. for RECORD WHAT YOU SEE Need the annualHelmet mounts have also been really popular with riders. GoPro offers two types of helmet mounts: A vented helmet strap and slightly curved sticky helmet mounts. Contour and GoPro both fundraiser event.offer helmet camera systems. GoPro has a $299.00 retail price point on their HD Helmet Hero package and Contour - Author Brendan Richards scored this wave by claiming it on the offers a vented helmet strap and sticky low profile mounts outside and riding it all the way in. Photo David DeVries INSTRUC Brandon Scheid shows us the view from the Kitehero Line for either the left or right side of a helmet. The Contour GPS TIONAL Mount. Photo Brandon Scheid is $349.99 and the standard HD camera is $279.99, with no mounts included with either camera. However, the offset in retail price for Contour HD systems gives riders the ability to purchase the individual mounts they need. RECORD YOURSELF The Kitehero Line Mount is designed to work with DISCTheOVER Best Kept SUfour or fiveR lineF kites and can be set up in just By Ryan Roberts/www.kitehero.com s 24 a few minutes. Its lightweight74 design and Secret of the Bahama By Jesse Cors/liquidsurfandsail.com Photos by Jason Arnold You can find kiteboarders all over the world. It seems like positioning keeps your photos and videos virtually every ridable place has been conquered and written about either online or in print. Our signature is on every free from obstructions without interfering RUcontinent andM in almost everyC countryA on theY planet. We ETIQUEwithTT your ride. ENew to our lineup is a have kited exotic places like Alaska, Korea, Cambodia, New Caledonia, and even Antarctica, so it’s hard to imagine that line mount system for the Contour HD Rum Cay:a location with warm water, steady wind, pristine beaches, camera. Regardless of the camera, the GETCleanand long consistent barrels, waves withFOCUSED! a mix of reef breaks and Rules to livepoint by of view fromin the line mount is a n the past, itsoft was sandy-bottom rare to see barrels POV has kiteboardingso far been home photos to only a or video because to use and include a wide range of photo and video settings to choose from. For single kiteboarder. You heard right: Just one person has unique way of capturing your experience with very few people owned waterproof cameras they could take out on the shooting photos or video we suggest using a large memory card (at least 8GB) and ever kited this magical place. That is until now... photos and videos. On some kites, the mounting point is I water. Mounting a video camera on a kiteboarder used to be a complicated make sure you pick one with a high write speed (Class 6 or higher). Skimping out the waves. just far enough up that it captures a full view of everything going on. processbutter-flat that involved custom-made equipmentwater, and a lot of trial and error. on a less expensive card will cause the videos to end up really choppy after being Today, it seems like almost every kiteboarder out there owns a GoPro camera recorded because the memory card can’t keep up with the camera. and an assortment of mounts, which has made it possible for anyone to Wherever you choose to mount your GoPro or Contour camera, you can almost be guaranteed to get interesting photos or video that would have been almost impossible to do just a few capture interesting andphotos and videoseven- while they ride. However, the number of For clarity while riding, putting RainX on your housing helps keep water off or years ago. different mounting options and camera settings can be a little overwhelming. you can use the same method surf photographers use: Spit on it. As weird as Additionally, there is a new line of cameras from Contour that are also suitable it sounds, spitting on and licking the port on the housing works really well for to usepound for kiteboarding, so lobsters.it can be a bit of a challenge to figure out exactly keeping drops from forming on the lens. For close up action, the 1280x960 Don’t forget to send your best kiteboarding POV shots to what you need to capture your kiteboarding experiences. resolution is usually best. If hard drive space is not an issue, set it to 1920x1080 [email protected]. You might just find yourself to capture the true HD experience. If you think you will want to show some of your featured in the Local Homies section of this magazine. Both the GoPro and Contour cameras produce a killer point of view and each one video in slow motion, 1280x720 at 60 frames per second will allow you to do that has a handful of different mounting options. GoPro uses a quick release system without sacrificing quality. The viewing angle on Contour cameras is 135° and MORE INFORMATION: and Contour uses what they call a T-Rail. Both systems offer waterproof housings. GoPro has a 170° ultra wide angle in WVGA, 720, or 960 modes, and a 127° wide http://www.kitehero.com; Currently, Contour only makes a case for the Contour HD Video Camera, but one angle in 1080 mode. A big advantage of the Contour HD is that the lens can be http://www.gopro.com; for the Contour GPS is rumored to be coming soon. Both cameras are really simple rotated to any angle, while the GoPro has a fixed lens. http://www.contour.com 24 THEKITEBOARDER.COM THEKITEBOARDER.COM 25 12 THEKITEBOARDER.COM THEKITEBOARDER.COM 13 6 THEKITEBOARDER.COM THEKITEBOARDER.COMTIPS FOR GETTING YOUR WAVE 7 • Kite far outside and look for sets, turn on what By Brendan Richards/sckitesurfing.com looks like a wave and do your best to stay on top of the wave until it breaks • Sometimes you might have to give up a wave to someone else when priority isn’t 100% clear. This helps keep things civil and usually someone else will return the favor. KEEPING THE PEACE: • If the wave you selected doesn’t pan out to be Kitesurfing Wave Etiquette the wave you wanted, don’t slog off the back and try to claim the one behind it.
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