Searching your own style
Guarda la gallery dell'evento: Searching your own styleWhat's that combines skiing to summer? The glaciers and summer skiing? Not only that, sometimes it's just a dream and a great deal of resourcefulness combined with a touch of madness to create a mixture of screaming: join the board from snowboarding to sailing for windsurfers!
The photos you see in the article are not the result of a clever montage but they are all real, the pictures are made by the photographer Olaf Crato in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, in a quite extraordinary, where snowboarding and windsurfing meet perfectly. The surfer Luke
instead Dragoons, an outdoor sports enthusiast who has long harbored the idea for months, waiting for the right moment, the right snow and weather conditions: that moment came in March 2011. After months
preparation of false starts and now the players were hoping there almost until he came one day and the feelings were positive: they knew within themselves that it was the right day. Armed with enthusiasm, with the inspiration of the highest levels, they took the equipment and decided that the next day he would get up early, to avoid losing the best hours of the snow.
Yes, because , this time it was not the "classic" trip in the backcountry with an adjoining beautiful downhill powder, there's definitely a lot more going on ... the realization of a dream, descend down virgin slopes relive the same thrills of windsurfing waves, drawing perfect lines and curves in the snow.
After reaching the top with ropes and pulleys, Luke can not stop thinking about how it will be the first sensation, usually says it all, in a moment makes you realize if it will work or not. In a short time is ready, the glider is assembled, the joint is secured properly to snowboarding (to avoid a bad fall a few meters), the attacks are adjusted properly and Arva, the apparatus swept mountain is on the way "send" though - to be honest - you always hope very much that no one should exploit these technologies.
And then, via ! Towards the snow and the altitude to reach the valley: "Now the board picks up speed - Luke says - and I understand that the curves in the" frontside "to download the sail from too much pressure, I have to lower it a lot, just like you when you get a wave and you prepare to climb towards the peak. Great, after a "turn" embarrassed begin to like it, the curves on the other hand, those in the "backside" to be handled with caution to avoid turning too much and find the sail full of wind in your face risking some "crash" uncontrolled but all in all, the idea seems to work for the better. Trying to dare some maneuver of "freestyle" I fell ill several times fortunately the snow is soft but it certainly is not the same thing that end up upside down in water!
At the end of this day very, very different from usual, in the shelter in the valley Olaf and I have a smile on his face that no one can understand but us, happy to have lived unique moments that will remain etched forever in our hearts and our minds. At least until the next turn ... "
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