Worldcup 2010

July 27th, 2010

Last weekend the world’s best rider gathered in St. Perter Ording, Germany to fight out who’s the best among them.
Unfortunately it wasn’t me in the end who won the big price money.
I had to stop before I even started since there where heaps of competitors. We had to start the trials under challenging onshore conditions with loads of chop and 5 riders per heat. I could hardly find a spot to place a trick at coz there just wasnt enough room. I ended up second so I had just one further chance to become 1st and to make it into the main event.
This heat was fairly close and seemed to be a hard decision. I was confident to win before the last minute of the heat started. So I wasnt really sure if either Johno or I would make it into the maincontest until they announced the decision over the radio.
At least my girlfriend and I got to shoot some nice pictures of the Event. Check them out!

SELCOUTH #1

May 29th, 2010

SELCOUTH the Introduction from birnbaum on Vimeo.

Hey guys, the first part of my australia vid went online, finally =]
check it out and leave comments, please!!

KST Büsum

May 17th, 2010

Post pictureHey folks, this weekend I went to the Kitesurf-trophy in Büsum. The spot was sick, a flat water lagoon with mostly waste deep water, suitable for most westerly wind direction, which is quite common in northern Germany.
Unluckily we started off the event in very low wind conditions even though there was heaps more wind predicted for the upcoming days, what caused a lot of dissatisfaction under the majority of riders.
I managed to advance into the quarter finals but had to end it there due to too little wind that not even made me stay upwind. Next day in the double elimination it was the same story again, couldn’t stay upwind and I hardly had enough power to do a backroll..
A shame that we didn’t put the event to Saturday and Sunday since there was plenty of wind. Instead the event organiser tried to kill the time with a kiteloop supersession.
Even if the event didn’t run as luckily for me as it could. I gave a great show smashing some s-mobes, frontmobes , KGB’s etc. while free riding on sat and Sunday. All super powered with my lines around 30 degrees and strapped in boots on a 7 meter kite =] All time!!