Woensdag 2 November 2022 Wekker staat 04:30 uur, het is nog donker en dagen zijn door de wintertijd nu echt kort. Het plan is duidelijk,...

Kite Team Van Oord team member Jan Willem Markvoort participated in the TV TAS 2022 downwinder. In this blog he will share his memories...

On 28 September 2019, after having to wait 1,5 years for the perfect day, mother nature finallly delivered. On this day, Kite Team Van...

On Friday we had to leave the northern part of Brazil behind us and headed south for the final chapter of our trip. The destination of...

Waking up on Thursday morning in São Luís felt a bit weird. Everybody was excited to go in the water again but the mixed feelings were...

Day 11 was planned to be a "travel day", but for a few members of the team the temptation was too big to launch the kites for a short...

Today was the first day without a downwind session. Yesterday we surfed the longest distance of the week and reached after 110 km our...

Today we had one of the longest downwinders ahead of us, having to cover a distance of more than 100km. It proved to be a challenging day...

Today was expected to be a relatively relaxed day with only 30km downwind on the schedule. Besides that, this was the first time that we...

The day is Barra Grande started relatively ‘tranquillo’, as the Brazilian would say, mainly because the wind was expected to pick up only...

With more than 400 km behind us, day 6 was supposed to be one of the toughest days! Beside the challenging distance of 80 km, the rocky...

BBQ Picanha near the beach in Jeri, something we can all recommend! After the diner, great night and a good sleep everybody was ready for...

Day 4 was promised to be a big day in nature, and the day delivered. 111 kilometers of kitesurfing through tidal flats, passing flying...

Today the ride was planned from Icairazinho to Ilha de Guajiru with a planned distance to kitesurf of 35 kilometers, after sunset it came...

Today we have a guest writer: our rescue hero at the jetski Gael: "Today was the day of 90 kilometer downwind trip from Guajiru to...

After arrival in Fortaleza Airport, we had a warm welcome of our support team. A small ride to Cumbuco brought us to Cumbuco, being the...

Today, Kite Van Oord received new custom kites for the Ride Strong Downwinder 2019, Fortaleza to Sao Luis. Coming Saturday we will depart...

Besides organising the Business Development trip to Brazil, Kite Team Van Oord is training hard, to be ready to kite for 600 kilometer...