Alex Pastor. Professional Kiteboarder. Vice World Champion 2010.

New video from New Caledonia

Alex Pastor — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:27:32 +0000

Check out my latest video!
This short movie shows some of my best competition tricks during the last PKRA event of 2011 in New Caledonia where I got 1st place. Enjoy! Shot by Jeremie Lecaudey and Toby Bromwich (GoPro shots)
Please share it on your facebook or like if you enjoyed watching it!

Big thanks to Airush and ION for the support!

Interview on KiteScoop

Alex Pastor — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:25:49 +0000

A lot of Kiteboarding websites and forums are talking about me winning the first PKRA ever riding boots. Wanna know a bit more about myself and about that? Check out my most recent interview on kitescoop.com:

http://kitescoop.com/interviews/interview/alexpastor/

for more, Like: facebook.com/AlexPastorKite

1st @PKRA New Caledonia!! and riding boots!!

Alex Pastor — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:41:49 +0000

Hey guys,

Yesterday was a great day for me, managed to win my 1st competition this year. Gotta say it feels great when you win, specially after fighting so much with Youri during the year. I’m pretty stoked with this 1st place!!

As you could see, I already did a competition in boots in Brazil, but this is the first time someone wins a PKRA wearing them, so I’m really happy to be a part of kiteboarding’s history. I’m sure we are gonna see more of that now as the gear has evolved so much and boots helps our riding a lot now. It was a hard decission that I did, when I started riding boots full time a month ago, speacially because people was doubting that I would do good in competition on them, but here is the proof. I’m glad to see so many people happy with this 1st place I’ve just got!

This competition went out perfect for me, managed to win every single heats with 3-0 decissions, and most of the heats I had were really solid landing switch and regular S-mobe 5, back mobe 5, front blind mobe, blind 315, switch and regular back mobe and kgb, 2 s-bend to blind… and some other things, so that was definitely a good help.

Also the 2011 rankings came out as well putting Marc Jacobs in 3rd place, me in 2nd and Youri Zoon in 1st place.

This win means a lot to me and will keep me really motivated to go for a 1st place overall next season. Wanna give an special thanks to my sponsors and all the people that followed me and commented on my Facebook,

Cheers,

Alex

1st place @ Superkite Brazil!

Alex Pastor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:53:02 +0000

After 2 nice weeks of practising in Cumbuco, decided to compete on this international competition that has been happening for years since it first was a PKRA in 2004.

A month ago I decided to change a little thing on my setup and threw away my old footstraps to ride on boots full time. I think this change will and already is helping me improving my riding. Since I’ve switched I can do my tricks with a lot more power, style and even consistency.

Anyway, this was one of the reasons why I decided to compete on this event, to see how that change would affect my riding in competition, specially with the really choppy water we had on the event.

This event was already run with the new format that we will use for the PKRA next year, where they only count the best 7 tricks you do in a heat out of 12 attempts. My experience with that system was pretty good, can’t wait to compete with it next year!

The competition went pretty good for me, managed to win despite of the high level of the local riders. There were some really big brazilian names such as Carlos Madson (3rd at this year’s PKRA Brazil), Evandro da Silva (2nd at 2008 PKRA Brazil), Tomais Teixeira, the new talent and Brazilian Champion Eudazio da Silva. All of them were riding insanely good, so I had some really taugh heats, but I had some good ones. The final was one of my best heats where I landed a clean Blind Judge 5, S-mobe 5, mobe 5, switch back mobe, s-mobe 7, switch and regular KGB, front blind mobe…

This competition gave me a lot of motivation to start competing in boots from now, so if you follow PKRA New Caledonia you will see me riding them. Hope you like the difference on my riding!