85 year old kitesurfer, awesome !

cant believe that was an ad. but thats awesome. especially cause he must've been like 75 when he got into it! -wish it had subtitles. -is rip curl aussie owned?
who reckons their body will last til then? -inspirational

He can jump better than me and has 30 yrs. on me...........I will be out and finished way before then.

Ive got a contract with my pilates trainer that she'll keep me kiting till Im 80
Seeing that I might just have to extend the term

hey gruezi - he pinched ur hat

and here I was thinking Mssr POAS was the oldest!!

Yeah there was an small article about him in kiteworld a couple of years ago, he is also a sponsored shop rider, so there is hope for all of us (we just have to wait a while )

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Surfer62 said...

85 year old kitesurfer, awesome !

Very cool, we'll be there in a flash of an eye, might need to reduce my kite-looping though!!

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/Kiteboarding-at-86-Years-Old/?SearchTerms=porn

ha ha, this dude is getting younger, last year he was 86!

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tgladman said...

-wish it had subtitles.

^^^^ translation by Mr Float in the above link

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tatkins said...
ha ha, this dude is getting younger, last year he was 86!

Thats what kiting does for you.
I was getting on a bit before I started kiting and look at me now

PFFFT no kiteloops

just kidding! it makes me so happy to think I might be able to enjoy this sport for the next half century. That guys an inspiration

I'm danish and I used to kitesurf the same place as him in 2000. At the time he was windsurfing and already kind a cult figure due to his age....

One season I remember I did not see him until late in teh sumemr and I asked him where he had been and he told me he had to take quite a few months off because he had broke a rip trying to learn how to kitesurf.

The last years I was in Denmark 2000-2004 he was only windsurfing, which was still pretty cool for a guy his age....

On the movie, which is a commercial for a bank in Denmark he says he feels young hanging out on the water with all the youngsters....

His wife complains he is a pain in the ass if he cannot kitesurf....

He says he kitesurfs about 300 days a year, which I doubt, because it's fu****** freezing in Denmark in the wintertime....

He will feel old the day he cannot kitesurf anymore.....

Kudos to this old guy :)

^^^^ Nice post.

Great example why reposts of older stuff is well worth the repeat