DANIEL WALSTAB A.K.A. "BALLS"
Name: Daniel Walstab
Discipline I.E. wave riding, wake style riding, snow kiting: Wake style
Home base: Melbourne, Australia
What has been the biggest change in your life over the past 2 years? Leaving my electrical apprenticeship and having money to taking up kiteboarding full time and having no money what so ever!
Who do you most look up to? Lou Waiman because he is the reason we do what we do.
What is more important to you than kiteboarding? Happiness. What’s the point doing anything if you’re not happy.
What three adjectives would you use to describe your personality and riding? Unique, outgoing, innovative
What are the best and worst parts of your job? Best would have be riding every day and meeting new people; the worst is injuries.
Who were your first heroes in kiteboarding? Lou Waiman
What do you want people to know about you that they probably don’t already know?
I’m now finally debt free to my parents.
What’s in your I-pod?
If I could afford one, I would have AFI, Boysetfire, J5.
Favorite drink?
Anything with alcohol in it.
What do you do in your freetime?
Believe or not, I’m in to Bonsai’s. I have a great garden of them at home.
If you were to take a year off kiteboarding what would you do?
I’d travel around Oz with my girlfriend surfing and partying.
