All Aboard for the Wind Or No Wind Kiteboard Jam

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CamSur’s maverick Governor Lray Villafuerte creates another milestone in Philippine sports history with a unique sporting event that will put Camsur and the country in the world map. Aggressively promoting sports tourism in the country and successfully staging the biggest world-class sports events including the Cobra Ironman 70.3, the Cobra CamSur International Dragonboat Festival, the CamSur Marathon, the only race in the country that has an IAAF certified race course and the only qualifier to the IAAF 2011 World Championships, and the biggest and yearly-anticipated World Wakeboard Championships, CamSur Governor Lray Villafuerte launches the Wind or No Wind Kiteboard Jam, sure to set everyone’s eyes and ears on the progressive province of CamSur yet again.

Aaron Hadlow from UK: Aaron Hadlow started kitesurfing in 2000 and has participated in numerous windsurfing competitions around the world. He has won five consecutive Professional Kiteboard Riders Association (PKRA) World Championships since 2004.

Brandon Schied from USA: With his solid grabs, tweaked out maneuvers, and a refined areal attack, he proves to be the force to be reckoned with. Brandon Schied is definitely the guy to watch out for in kiteboarding

Chris Burke from UK: Chris Burke started his kitesurfing career end of 1999 when it was still unknown to most surfers. He has been teaching kitesurfing for the last six years, specializing in intermediate and advanced tuition running clinics around the world.

Davey Blair from USA: The man behind kiting, surfing, and wakeboarding lifestyle brand, Chucktown Inc., Davey Blaine has been competing since 2003 where he won 1^st in Outlaw Division, Velocity Games.

James Boulding from UK: James Boulding has come a long way from his first small power kite from his parents. Known for his “Shifty back 2 blind” and “FS indy3” moves.

Mauricio Abreu from USA: Morris, as fellow kiteboarders call him, is the “godfather and Wikipedia of kiteboarding.” One of the early icons of the sport, he has helped shape kiteboarding into what it is today. Mauricio Abreu, together with Andre Philip, designed four obstacles to create the ultimate kite park for the Wind or No Wind Kiteboard Jam in CamSur.

Sam Light from UK: Sam Light was the 2009 British Kiteboarding Champion and is currently promoting the sport. His signature moves are “Crow Mobe,” “Moby Dick,” and off-axis rotations.

Susi Mai from Dominican Republic: Originally from Germany, Susi Mai was born to a family of Windsurfers. Her parents were running a windsurfing school in Southern Italy until in 1990, when they decided to leave Europe for Cabarete, Dominican Republic for windsurfing. She started kiteboarding when her friend opened a kitebeach and gave her some lessons. Since then, she continues to compete and has won the “King of the Air” competition three times in a row.

Tom Court from UK: Tom Court has been travelling around the world to compete in PKRA World Kitesurfing tour stops with the world’s best athletes and has won several world competions.

Ruben Lenten from Holland: Ranked 3^rd in PKRA in 2004, Ruben Lenten has been joining and winning competitions ever since, until he had an ankle injury last year. Aside from getting ready for Wind or No Wind Kiteboard Jam, he is also busy with “On the Loose,” a TV series on kiteboarding.
Visit www.windornowind.com for more information and updates.

Get your boards ready and ride your way to CamSur as top riders from all over the world come together for a one-of-a-kind sporting event – the first ever Wind or No Wind Kiteboard Jam.

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I am curious. I travel. I am soul searching. Curious Tootling Soul, 3 words referring to me. In our everyday lives, we wander, and we ask questions. Yes, and sometimes it is hard to explain to someone who doesn’t quite see the world how you do— the way you do. Life to many can just be sectionalized and put into little boxes. A box for your true self; a box for your sociable self; a box for your fancies: your wants, your desires. Looking at your bucket list—list, highlight, and check. For some though life isn’t quite so simple. Some of us don’t know exactly what we want to do next or where we want to go, we just know there is so much out there we want to experience. We visit and travel new places often without knowing exactly what for, just that we know in our soul we need to. Mundane, humdrum existence and material things don’t impress us. We are in search for answers, for fulfillment and gratification. We need to be surrounded by love and warmth, growth and good. We know there is nothing better than a genuine laugh or a heartfelt hug. We are moved by the storytellers, the dreamers, the drifters, the people whose lives are different than ours, that we can learn from. We are drawn to new surroundings and unique experiences. As we fall in love with so many things around us, sometimes it is hard to keep track. We love and we continuously holding on for that love. We love different. We love doing things that terrify us because we know those are the moments that we grow. We love looking back and seeing that we have accomplished what we never thought we could, things we never thought were even a possibility. Because it is in those moments we know we are becoming the people we were always intended to be. We leap before we look sometimes. It is finding ourselves when we didn’t know we were lost and continuing to find ourselves over and over again. It is kissing a cute stranger under the stars, waving at a baby we pass on the street, helping someone who cannot repay us. It is jotting down a funny memory or a beautiful quote we can’t forget. It is finding out what makes us smile the biggest, what our passions are, what makes our eyes light up just by talking about it. (an excerpt from A. Twigg, 2015) I fall, but I keep on rising. My faith has been tested, but it always remains. I have grandiose plans and an endless list of options; the places that I want to explore and journeys that I want to take. I don’t always know how I will accomplish something, I just know some ways and the courage of somehow—I will. Life for me is a puzzle of creating moments. It is finding my next adventure. It is setting my feet on new sands, diving into new seas. It is laughing with a group of strangers, singing words to songs that I don’t know matters. It is knowing that there is a whole wide world out there just waiting for me to discover it. It is the feeling that there is no better time than right now to do what we have always wanted to do, so why not go? Do it.