Jesse Richman King of the Air 2020

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Door: wazzaah / 6 February 2020 / 16:56 / 4305 Hits / 4 Reacties

Jesse Richman is de nieuwe King of the Air

2. Nick Jacobsen

3. Aaron Hadlow

It was a 'day of days' at Kite Beach in Cape Town, with the world's finest big air kiteboard specialists pushing the limits. When the final siren went after 34 heats and some seven hours of competition Hawaiian Jesse Richman ascended to the top step. His second victory since first claiming the coveted African Mask 'crown' in 2013.

“This feels incredible!” He was characteristically ecstatic. “This is magical and it is amazing to have my new born daughter here and share it with this crowd,” he said.

Richman was runner up to three-time champ, Kevin Langeree in 2019 and learnt from that and other lesser podium visits. “I’ve had really good heats leading up to the finals in many years and usually kind of crack in the final, having peaked too early,” he added. Ironically it was Richman who halted the defending champ’s run in the quarter finals this year.

“So this year I adjusted a few things and was really confident in my plan and my strategy. It was really cool to see it play out.”

Sportive Director Sergio Cantagalli echoed Richman’s sentiments on the day. “We managed to score the perfect day. It was arguably the best day we were going to get during the weather window. It is very unusual that we could start so early on in the day and have consistent conditions throughout.”

While it was Richman’s second title, in keeping with the constant innovation of the event, it was a year of firsts at Red Bull King of the Air, featuring a new qualification and event format. Rounds 1 and 2 (which were made up of video entry winners, wildcards and the four ‘Fly to Red Bull King of the Air’ winners) were completed before lunch time. From there, the top six riders from the 2019 event joined the fray, seeded into Round 3, providing a spectacular day of action for the crowd who lined Kite Beach with the Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain in the background.

Marc Jacobs (NZ) won the ‘Woo Highest Jump of the Day’, while ‘Mystic Move of the Day’ went to Nick Jacobsen (DEN) for a kite-loop board-off that scored a 9.02 out of a possible 10 in one of the earlier rounds.

For the final standings, videos and images from the day, make sure you check out www.redbullkingoftheair.com. If you missed the action, watch the live replay on www.redbull.tv

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Zomer 07 February / 2020 / 04:42

Net gekeken naar de heat tussen Hadlow en Steven Akkersdijk, Steven had wat mij betreft echt moeten winnen, al zijn moves waren bruuter, het leek alsof Hadlow won door een suffe handlepass, wat zonde! Petje af Steven, het was bijzonder om te zien wat je allemaal voor elkaar wist te krijgen.

wazzaah 07 February / 2020 / 11:32

Tsja... daar had ik ook mijn twijfels over, 0.3 punt verschil en Steven stond voor qua punten tricks maar Aaron kreeg wat extra punten voor diversiteit in de tricks. Qua tricks ging Steven echt hoger en de kite ging lager.

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wazzaah had een 5 sterren sessie in Terschelling Groene Strand met maar liefst 10 - 11 knots op zijn Vari Condor (2013)

isomis 07 February / 2020 / 13:44

Kevin komt nooit meer op het podium met zijn eigen merk kites. Welkom, in het zakenleventje :)

zucht...

Langbeest 08 February / 2020 / 15:13

Nu was ie ook niet op zijn best

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Geen wind....neem een thermoskan mee

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