The Forecast - a kitesurfing pod

What does it take, and what options do you have if you want to make a living on your passion for kitesurfing? We discuss different aspects of this topic in the episode of The Forecast.

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of Heatscoring.com, The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily. 

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.    

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

The 5 min Forecast

We break down the Contra Lopp, or Dirty Loop as it's also called. What's so special about it? Who's out there pushing the limits of if? Will we see it more often in competitions? 

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of Heatscoring.com, The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily. 

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.    

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

NEW series on The Forecast - The 5 min Forecast 

We know, sometimes we can talk a little bit too loooooooong. This is a series of shorter podcasts where we talk about ONE subject, for only 5 minutes! The subject this time - Why don't we see a Big Air World Tour from GKA...?  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of Heatscoring.com, The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

YES! We did get a massive BIG AIR competition in Cape Town this year. Thanks to Mike Mac Donald (get high with Mike) and a team that managed to pull this off with just a few days planning.  

We give you some insights, behind the scenes and our thoughts on the event. 

https://bakl.heatscoring.com/ for all scores and results
https://www.heatscoring.com/ to see more of the scoring system  

Thumbnail picture by Thomas Burblies (@thomasburblies)  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of Heatscoring.com, The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

Cape Town is open again! Let's hope for an epic season finale. Also we look at the GKA tour 2021 and talk about the changes of The Kite Games for 2021 and a lot more. Enjoy :)

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. 

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael    

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/     

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/

WE MOVED TO ANOTHER CHANNEL! This pod is now part of the channel Kiteboarding Daily that brings you your daily dose of kiteboarding content. We talk about the move, we go behind the scenes of the online kiteboarding award show The Whaley's, we discuss the move of King of the Air from February to November and we chat about our expectations on 2021.  Let's go!  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

WE HAVE THE CONFIRMED RIDER LIST FOR KOTA 2021! There are some interesting things to talk about. We go through the whole list and give our opinion on the qualifiers, the wildcards and the format.

Official page with rider list: https://www.redbull.com/za-en/red-bull-king-of-the-air-2021-riders 

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. 

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael    

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/     

Kiteboarding Daily
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQ0RGTh8qy2Vo3kbiRm5LA 

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/ 

The final date to submit video entry for Red Bull King of the Air 2021 has passed, and we talk about the videos, the riders and other things related to KOTA.  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

It's that time of the year! We are building up stoke for Red Bull King of the Air in Cape Town. We talk about the potential start fleet, the Covid situation and changes of video entries. We also talk about the just finalised Hydrofoil Freestyle competition in Brazil.  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games, VLOG by M.E. and current host of KiteboardingDaily.   

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

Use your phone as webcam
https://iriun.com/

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/     

Kiteboarding Daily
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQ0RGTh8qy2Vo3kbiRm5LA  

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/ 

The Kite Games and the GKA Distance Battle has come to and end for this time and we talk about that. Also we give a glimpse of new things to come - The Whaleys, more Big Air Kite League stops etc.  

The Kite Games Videos:
WINNERS
#noworkteam - https://youtu.be/8JtnO-so8l4
Skysurfing Goats - https://youtu.be/oNgNLC7bv5M
BEST EDIT
CPH Mermaids - https://youtu.be/-BrovjRS_pE
MOST IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE
UK Kite Groms - https://youtu.be/8D5knhlA6no  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games and the podcast Team Talk.      

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael    

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/     

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/

"We will NEVER see this again..." 

We are in the middle of the GKA Distance Battle. The strapless freestyle is finished and the twin tip freestyle are past the first round. We had a follow-up on our thoughts on the distance battle so far and our thoughts on the rounds that are left.  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games and the podcast Team Talk.

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.

Cheers, Adrian and Michael

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/

New VLOG
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSms6Fre4zATVjnULgYZyIA  

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/  

A few days after we managed to run one of the few Big Air Kite competitions this year, the Cold Hawaii Games Big Air, Adrian and Michael sat down to discuss thoughts and reflection from the weekend in Vorupør/Klitmøller, Denmark. 

We also touch on the upcoming Big Air Kite League competition in Tatajuba, Brazil.  

This is a longer episode, but it's worth listening to if you're interested in kitesurfing and Big Air. A lot of interesting stuff was discussed!  

The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers, is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games and the podcast Team Talk.      

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael    

Links from the show:
Cold Hawaii Games Big Air: https://coldhawaiigames.com/big-air/
Results from the competition: http://chg.heatscoring.com/
BAKL Brasil: https://bigairkite.com/pages/big-air-kite-fest-tatajuba
The real Stig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wP_56cRv8  

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/     

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/    

Team Talk  
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyxz39O_fXlIhvS59qjnJGg

Welcome back to The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers. 

In this episode, Michael is on his way to the big air competition in Cold Hawaii, Denmark. We take the opportunity to talk about that, Mike McDonalds initiative Big Air Kite League (BAKL) and big air competitions in general.    

The Forecast is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games and the podcast Team Talk.      

The show is available both as a YouTube podcast and as an ordinary podcast on eg Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast etc.      

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.      

Cheers, Adrian and Michael    

Kitesurf365  
http://kitesurf365.com/

The Kite Games  
https://thekitegames.com/    

Team Talk  
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyxz39O_fXlIhvS59qjnJGg    

Welcome back to The Forecast - a podcast for kitesurfers.  

Scroll down to see table of content for this podcast.  

2020 is a year we will soon forget, in many ways. Kitesurfing/kiteboarding competitions can not be run as usual. This together with winds blowing towards a change in what riding styles and competition formats the pros and rising stars are focusing on makes this an interesting topic to explore.  

The Forecast is a pod with Adrian Kerr, known as kitesurf365 from the podcast with the same name, and Michael Ericsson, the founder of The Kite Games and the podcast Team Talk.    

The show is available both as a YouTube podcast and as an ordinary podcast on eg Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast etc.    

Hope you will enjoy the show. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to support us in trying to make something interesting for you.    

Cheers, Adrian and Michael  

Kitesurf365 http://kitesurf365.com/   

The Kite Games https://thekitegames.com/  

Team Talk https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyxz39O_fXlIhvS59qjnJGg  

Intro and chit-chat: (0:00)
The Whaleys & Kitesurf365: (2:09)
The Kite Games: (4:10)
Start episode topic: (7:14)
Kite winging: (8:25)
Twin tip Freestyle: (10:15)
Strapless Freestyle: (17:18)
The Olympics: (20:04)
Big Air: (27:22)
Online Competitions: (36:10)
Outro: (41:19)