The Journals - Ocean Rodeo's Weekly Report

UPDATED WEEKELY OCEAN RODEO REFLECTS ON THE WEEK OF WORK, WHAT LIES AHEAD AND HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD ONE RIDER AT A TIME.

Ocean Rodeo Kiteboarding New Breathable Pyro Pro Drysuit !!

Posted by KevinM on September 30th 2009

Ocean Rodeo Kiteboarding is stoked to roll out its new breathable version of the ever popular Pyro Pro Drysuit.

http://oceanrodeo.com/kiting/pyro-pro

Race report 9/17 – OR rider Stefaans Viljoen takes 1st on the Rise 14m and OR race

Posted by Andrew Galbraith on September 18th 2009

A brief update from the world of racing. San Francisco's Thursday night racing has been sporadic since the intense 5 days of racing for the World Championships. We've had some races cancelled due to light wind and many competitors are race weary.

Last night we were back in action with Stefaans and OR taking the top spot, on his birthday too!

Stefaans on the OR race

We ran 2 races in lighter wind, with all racers on 12m-14m kites. With season leader Chip Wasson doing race committee the field was open for someone else to claim top honors.

Stefaans took a bullet in race one and 5^th in the second race to take 1^st. He was followed by Jeff Kafka (Cabrinha) and Geoff Headington (Ozone) in the top 3.

Other OR riders finishing well are as follows: Chris Brown 6^th, Andrew Galbraith 8^th and Eric Geleynse 9^th.

Unfortunately I have no new photos from last night, but I just wanted to let you know that the OR race board, with the Curtis hammer fins, is still a winning design.

Thanks as always to the St. Francis Yacht Club, Cabrinha and Steve Gunn for hosting the races.

Ocean Rodeo SLE Bar 3.0 Page Live!!

Posted by Administrator on September 15th 2009

Our SLE Bar 3.0 Page is Now Live!! Check it out!!

www.oceanrodeo.com

The 2009 sponsor video series - Four new HD videos !

Posted by jeremie tronet on September 11th 2009

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Three new HD videos : The 2009 Sponsor video series

After our trip in Los Roques and in Venezuela I had enough images to edit 3 individual videos for each of our sponsors than Ocean Rodeo instead of making the usual video with all the logos at the beginning.

There are few similarities but each of the video try and show the product and some kiteboarding action straps and bindings.

I'll be working on a longer Los Roques video this week and also the next Ocean Rodeo promo Rise kite video.

All videos ate available in HD on YouTube:

Jeremie Tronet sponsor video series - Ocean Rodeo session II harness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_z4QUgfbjc

Jeremie Tronet sponsor video series - Alpinestars (clothing):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqapxL3VVA

Jeremie Tronet sponsor video series - Zeal optics (sun glasses):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ff60ZWO1XU

Linn Svendsen sponsor video series -Blue glue bikinis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUUuJu1JBC0

I also worked on my YouTube video channel where I will be uploading all of my videos, so you can subscribe to receive the latest videos as soon as they are uploaded:

http://www.youtube.com/jerekite

http://www.jeremietronet.com for the latest news

Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jeremietronet

Ocean Rodeo Egypt 2010 photo shooting

Posted by jeremie tronet on September 4th 2009

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Sorry, but the last two weeks I haven't been able to update the site with pictures or anything else, the Internet in Egypt wasn't the most reliable and I couldn't really update the site from there. I tried to keep you informed on twitter or facebook, so if you didn't already do it, join and follow me by clicking on the small logos on the menu bar of my site !

Egypt was a very nice trip, together with Linn I flew from nice (south of France) to Paris and then directly to Hurghada where we stayed in a hotel close to the Colona water sports, the kiteschool and main kitespot there:

The Colona water sports is a very nice kiteschool offering a full range of services for the kiters, with rescue service, lockers, a bar, etc at a super nice price for the time of your stay, and the staff is very nice and helpful. http://www.colonawatersports.com/

We went to Hurghada to film the next Rise kite Ocean rodeo video and shoot tonnes of nice pics of the 2010 gear.

The day we arrived the wind was already blowing strong, so I went out on my 8m diablo and had the chance to be kiting with dolphins jumping around for more than 30 minutes, they were showing of their own tricks (kind of Sbends) to remind me they are the locals there ! hehe, it was amazing, the red sea has a rich animal life and beautiful clear waters, perfect for a nice trip.

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The Italian Ocean Rodeo dealer Jose and his girlfriend was staying in the same hotel as us, and with them we took some very cool kite pictures, I can't post them online yet, but I'm sure you will hear about those shots pretty soon.

The weather there is amazing, you get a clear blue sky and over 35 °C temperature all day long, the water is warm and the only thing you have to worry about is to drink enough water, what the local can't do during the Ramadan in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, etc ... from dawn until sunset.

The people there were very nice and Egypt is definitely one of the top kite destinations for anybody looking for good wind this time of the year. In fact most of the European kiters chose Egypt as one of the main kite destinations for their holidays because of it's proximity and good prices.

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So Egypt was a success, with amazing pictures loaded in the hard drives, several video tapes to work on and edit, I 'll be staying here in France for 10 days before to fly back to Cumbuco in Brazil and spend 3 months training and shooting with Linn.

Right now, the wind seems to be good here in the South of France, and hopefully I'll be heading to Italy for a surf and SUP session tomorrow very early.

You can have a look at a small photo gallery from the trip here:

http://www.jeremietronet.com/photos/egypt/

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