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 Oord and 254 other par...

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 our 3 hours flight was...

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 noticeable. This might...

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 morning session prior d...

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

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 for the group kites...

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 were going to sleep ...

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

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 coast and the exhaust...

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 the next day! Today...

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

Today the ride was planned from Icairazinho to Ilha de Guajiru with a planned distance to kitesurf of 35 kilometers, after sunset it came clear that it was 7...

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 Icaraizinho. The group was...

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 starting point of Rid...

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

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