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BIO

Name: Alex Pastor

Nacionality: Spanish

Date of birth: 19/11/1989

Kiting since: 2003

Living: Tarifa (Spain)

I was born in Malaga (Spain). When I was 8, my dad bought to me some windsurf stuff. There wasn’t kites at this time where I was living. I lived very close to Tarifa so we went there very frequently.

In 2003 I started to kite because I saw it in Malaga and Tarifa, so I really wanted to start. My brother and me took some lessons and we bought our first kite. In this summer we learned to kite but we went back to Malaga in September, so therefore we didn’t kite a lot in the winter.

Next summer (2004), we came back to Tarifa and I started to kite every day. I progressed a lot and I got my first sponsors. We didn’t want to go back to Malaga and we wanted to spend the winter in Tarifa, so we did.

This year I started to compete. I came to my first competition and I won. That one was in Tarifa and everybody was surprised with my victory, including me.

In 2006 I started to do some PKRA but I just got 13th place in Tarifa, Cabarete, Fuerteventura. kiteloop

2007 was the last year at school. Everything was ok there. I continued studying in Tarifa but I didn’t kite much in the winter beacause of my studies. This year was the most difficult so I had to study a lot.

When I finished I came straight to Cabarete PKRA. I got 9th place and it was ok. I hadn´t practised a lot so I wasn´t expecting something like this. After that competition I went back to Tarifa for the summer, where I spent all day on the beach, practising about 4 or 5 hours every day.

So after that was the Fuerteventura PKRA. I wasn’t expecting to get 3rd place, so I was really happy with that result. Later I went to Germany where I unfortunately got a bad result ,but after that I went to Brazil where I got 2nd place and I won almost all the TOP riders. That was the moment when I decided to do the hole world tour in 2008.