Spanish Kiteboarding League 2019 – 1st time with our juniors

The action began on Friday with an instructive talk offered by the Migres Foundation and the Natural Park of the Strait, whose objective was to raise awareness of the importance of city and live with the flora and fauna of such an impressive area. After the talk and with the wind blowing from the first hour, the show began in the water with the first single eliminations of freestyle strapless and freestyle twin-tip. With the domain of Kiko Roig, Liam Whaley and Alexandra Torres.  At night, North Kiteboarding presented the ‘calculated risk’ video – by Nick Jacobsen – in the Diosa.

On Saturday the impressive weather conditions for the practice of kite followed. On this day, turn for the double eliminations. The twin-tip freestyle boys would open fire, where the most outstanding was Jerome Cloetens’s great performance winning five heats in row and his confrontation with the almighty Liam Whaley in the final. The first place has finally taken the latter with an incredible Backside 317.

Afternoon the girls entered in the water. In this case, remarkable comeback of Isabeau Galiart until second place, although Alexandra Torres did not miss the first place.

Finally, in the strapless men’s stand out the role of the kitesurfers of Huelva Rafael del Castillo and Rubén Cano (second and third), as well as the incredible Kiko Roig, who made an almost perfect heat obtaining 30 of 30 points from 3 of the 5 judges, something never seen so far in the SKL.

Results SKL 2019 – Tarifa

Freestyle Strapless man

1. Kiko Roig
2. Rafael del Castillo
3. Rubén Cano
4. David Marín

Freestyle Twin-tip man

1. Liam Whaley
2. Jerome Cloetens
3. David Tonijuan
4. GonzáloAlcazar

Freestyle Twin-tip female

1. Alexandra Torres
2. Isabeau Galiart
3. Julia Castro
4. Ana Chamorro

In the afternoon, with the absolute categories finalized, the youngest would be given way and continue their fight on Sunday morning. The boys of sub16 entered the water at 1:30 pm, when the wind was blowing at its best and after a beach cleaning by participants, organization 🐾, spectators, etc.

They did it to dispute the first sub16 finals of the history of the SKL. They opened fire in the category of freestyle tiwn-tip, whose final confronted Jeremy Burlando with the young Marten Marco 🐾, who starred in a melee fight. Jeremy was the winner with KGB, Heart-Attack and Back-Mobe; All of them complex tricks and performed with an impeccable technique.

Late afternoon, it was the turn of the young strapless. The first and second place final between Keanu Merten 🐾 and Noah Nicolas 🐾 was a spectacle. Both have managed to round some tricks of great difficulty with a perfect finish. Merten has achieved the victory with a very good heat landing an unexpected and surprising kiteloop-rodeo.

A free expression session, in which the competitors entered the water 8 by 8 to throw the best tricks they know without the pressure of the competition, gave way to the awards ceremony, in which the new champions of the Spain Kiteboarding League were crowned.

Ranking Spain Kiteboarding League 2019

Freestyle Strapless man

1. Kiko Roig
2. Keanu Merten 🐾
3. David Marín

Freestyle Twin-tip man

1. David Tonijuan
2. Adrián Carbonell
3. Alex Pastor

Freestyle Twin-tip female:

1. Alexandra Torres
2. Isabeau Galiart
3. Julia Castro

Freestyle twin-tip Sub 16

1. Jeremy Burlando
2. Maren Marco 🐾
3. Valentín Hoenderop 🐾
4. Silas Alexander

Freestyle Strapless Sub 16

1. Keanu Merten 🐾
2. Noah Nicolas 🐾
3. Carlos Moreno 🐾
4. Michail Barkovskis 🐾