The OR rider just finished new website :
http://blog.jeremietronet.com

“Now when you go to www.jeremietronet.com you will be ask if you want to go to the new BLOG or the FLASH website !

The flash website is the same as before, but now for all the latest updates, videos and pictures, I invite you to check http://blog.jeremietronet.com to see what I’m speaking about and have a look at the latest news !

I will now be able to update the site more often from anywhere in the world, the news will be more accurate and live with tools like twitter implemented in the blog !
You will also be able top comment any of the new posts without having to sign in. So if you have any questions about what’s going on don’t hesitate to comment and post something !

Check it out :
http://blog.jeremietronet.com
and share it everywhere on your website and all your network accounts like facebook or twitter

thanks
cheers

Jeremie Tronet”

Kirsty Jones, Richard Boudia and Harold Quinquis discovering the Emerald Sea in the north of Madagascar.

A production Wax UP / Têtes à Clap presented by Air Madagascar.

Perfect ride in Madagascar
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The Dirty South - Teaser from BENWILSONVISION on Vimeo.

Footage from an afternoon of surfing powder out in western Maryland the day after one of many storms they have received this winter. John welcomed us to his homestead and we drove to a few fields where he has received permission to kite. It was epic!

John, Dean and Steve were ripping it up! Jessie killed it on his second session ever, Deb snowkited with a trainer, and I got to hit long downhills with a kite for the first time. I had a ton of fun learning to park the kite, cruise down a run with nothing but gravity, then power back up the hill with the kite to do it again. It wasn’t easy, but it was addictive and probably the most fun I’ve ever had kiting. Still stoked just thinking about it!!!

Surfing The Snow from Kiter Todd on Vimeo.

A big thanks to John for the guide services and we all look forward to kiting with him again soon!

The POV footage is shot with my GoProHD, the alternate perspective is Dean’s Vado, and the stills were by everyone. Good times. Good friends. Great spot!

Holy crap….

…am I in Maryland?

That was hands-down the best day of snowkiting I’ve ever had.

I have to put things in perspective and say that I’ve only had 6 good days of snowkiting in my life and 4 of them were in the past two weeks.

I’ve been through my whole quiver snowkiting now…rode my 7M the Wednesday of the blizzard, my 11M 2 days last weekend, and my 15M today. All performed great and I’m blown away at how easy all these LEIs relaunch on the snow, absorb gusts, and depower to handle a wider wind range than I seem to get on the water.

I got on the snow at around 1:30 today and rode w/ SteveW and others until sunset. It was only daylight and hardening snow that brought us in. Also out were Stas, Geof, Drew, Neil, Sabia, Megan, Emo, Vali, Audra, Cujo, and one other.

There’s a video of all this once I have a chance to put something together. Snow quality was fine. Corn snow, but the field seems to be absorbing the melt so it wasn’t wet slush. Worth rigging bigger than usual, though, as the wet snow is a bit slower.

A Snowkiting Afternoon @ Bloomfield Farm from Kiter Todd on Vimeo.

And, for folks going tomorrow…in the SW corner of the field is a kicker. It’s not a big kicker…you might miss it if you blink, but it proved to be a very fun thing to ramp off and go for board grabs and such. And I also learned that just like on the water, once you find a fun kiting feature (slick, camera, kicker) a peruvian cockblocker will park himself right in your path like a moth to a light!

And a BIG THANKS to Sabia for supplying the post-session beer!!!

-aargh

Some shots:

tow in snowboarding

post session at Annie’s with some unknown SKIKA members

After a few days of snowkiting on my old Burton Seven I decided that I want a new board for snowkiting. I felt that the board was too soft for snowkiting also the tail on turns was all over.
So I ordered an 157 board for me.

The board out of the box looked good but it felt also softer. The edges were straight and right in the middle they had this weird shape more like a snake. I was…what?! I already got a defect on my board?!

I went on line and check out and I found out more about Nobile/Contract snake technology.
http://www.contractsnowboards.com/snake-transition.html

I was a little skeptical about it but I said. What the hell, they make snowboards for snowkiting for more than 4 years so they must know what they are doing.

I set up the board with my old bindings ( I need 4 holes base plates to use it all the time) and I took it at Bloomfield farm.

When I went out the wind was good so I could have fun. It was a major difference between this and my old board. And it is funny but it felt more like you ride like a kiteboard than a snowboard. If it makes any sense. The board was going straight upwind. was holding the edge very well and had a really good grip on the icy snow. I towed in Audra that day, and I could hold my ground and go upwind even with one person snowboarding behind me.

Next day I tried it again. The wind was like but again the board helped me to go upwind and go back at the landing place. It has a lot of pop so I could jump a little even if the kite had almost no pull.

I think, if you ride it on pow it might have the same feeling like your snowboard, but on icy snow it is a different beast.

It grips and gets you where you wanna be.

Short story I really liked it. And Taisa liked it too

from Spleeft

Clips from my PR trip , January 2010. I used a new custom grip, designed by Jim Cancil at wetstuff.com , worked great! Waves were not huge but lots of sunshine and Sea Life!!
I have lots of ideas for new ways to use this grip, and edit the footage, but for now, here is my first effort using the “kite cam’.

Sea Life ( PR Kite Surfing ) from Marshall Movies on Vimeo.

Red Bull Ragnarok will select up to 200 riders from all over the world to race for 3 hours; 6 rounds of approximately 30 minutes each, stretching from 10-20km. After each round, if not already given up voluntarily, a number of snow-kite heroes will be eliminated.

The name “Ragnarok” stems from an incident in Norse mythology, describing the last battle between the good and evil Gods, where only the heroes of the battlefield survive.

Red Bull Ragnarok imitates this myth in the respect that only a mere few snow-kite heroes will succeed. Endurance is paramount, and only the toughest riders will make it to the finish line. Freestylers will be favored by having the possibility to overcome some obstacles in order to shorten the track.

The event will be carried out on one race day during the period April 15th – 18th on the great plateau by Haugastøl, Norway. The base for this one-of-a-kind endurance race, Haugastol Turistsenter, lies between Oslo and Bergen, and is the entrance gate to the El dorado of all snow-kiting locations, Hardangervidda in Norway.

More info here: www.redbullragnarok.no

Another sick  video from ACL Productions filmed at Jaws. Highlights from Jan 17th, 2010

Jaws Highlights - Jan 17th, 2010 from ACL Productions on Vimeo.