Yesterday I went to Taiba and it was a great Carnival!

The days starts with a big setup on the beach…from around 9 am on the party starts!

Then around 2 pm you move on to the main square of the village…music everywhere from cars, stages, huge speaker towers. Everyone is dancing and having a great time!

Make sure to wear sunglasses, otherwise you will get lots of Tapioca wheat into your face…and lots of spray! It is wild! And you WILL get dirty, no matter what!

Then from 7 pm on the party goes off on the main square without any wheat, so you can change clothes before and shower!

Great party, great atmosphere, great music and great people! For sure worth the visit!

You can almost party 24 hours for 4 days in a row…

Off to Taiba now!

Brazil is dancing!

The Carnival had its first day yesterday!

You will find good Carnival in these villages around Cumbuco:

Pecem

Taiba

Paracuru

Canoa Quebrada

Aracaji

You can dance all day and night, everyone is going crazy. And what energetic music…you gonna love it!

No pictures…no videos…you need to see it live

Well, no wind since some days, and it has been light before as well. Few days with wind which were just nice, since everything is empty…wave spots, lagoons etc.

The forecast looks good though from Wednesday on…if true, we are looking forward to a nice week!

An excellent swell is also fore casted. Now is the time of the surfers, who enjoy nice waves around Cumbuco.

End of the week we are trying to organize Cumbuco’s first buggy beach race!

We will be some guys who live in Cumbuco and own a buggy doing a timed race, each buggy starts, drives around two flags and back to the finish. Here Peter “the iceman” will stop the time and the fastest one will win.

I will do a video to show you the action and then you can see who is who in Cumbuco!

I am ready, so is my buggy!

What a beautiful day!

Wind with 5-6 Bft, which is about 15-20 knots.

A nice swell was coming in, creating nice waves for carving and perfect ramps.

I took out my 12.0, was ok powered, but could play with waves and do higher jumps with my old school style.

It was perfect…

Then I helped a guy to land his kite on the beach, and went back into the water. There was a guy coming in while I got out. Then I saw him doing a small jump or spin, therefore I started to watch his kite…that was the best thing I could have done today! I only saw the kite coming down on my at full speed, aiming perfectly at my head!

I hoped he will get it up again but no, so I protected my head with my arms and went down on the water…bumm, and it hit me! My kite started to spin, so I released.

And downwind was a small Jangada (small, local fisherboat)…but luckily the kite stopped to spin and went down on the 5th line.

My bar ripped his kite, now he has a big rip from the front tube to the back of the kite.

My kite only had 6 broken Cambattens, and my arm has a slight cut, but nothing serious.

We swam back to the beach, some guys came in and helped us out. The other rider was very sorry and apologized many times.

I cannot mention it enough, but ALWAYS keep and eye on the kite and rider if someone is upwind of you. Watch their action, if they do anything than just ride, but do tricks, just watch their kite until you are far enough away from it.

This anticipation and observing is needed on the various lagoons around Cumbuco to avoid getting injured. During the windy season, they get packed, but if you know the right-of-way rules, and keep watching what is going on, you will have an awesome time!

The cut healed and I’m back on the water since two days!

But the first day I put on one shoe on the foot with the cut…it really surprised me!

I did my usual boardoffs and didn’t land one! It was harder to reach and to get the board back on…just due to the shoe!

I couldn’t believe it!

So I just took a sock yesterday to have a bit of a cover to protect the cut a bit, and that worked really well!

Keep an eye on www.kiteforum.tv

since here I will upload a video from Chris, called “The Krauts”, which was filmed around Cumbuco and has nice action of various styles.

And I will upload my PKRA Germany 2006 video, which shows 35 minutes of a great event from August 2006.