Right, so my next stop is out in the Philippines for the WONW board Jam at the CWC Cable park. This is a bench mark event that brings the end of my competitive season and its a great place to have it! After the event, I will then be going to Boracay to host a ‘Kiteloop’ contest and training camp. It will be a fun event with kites to win and boards to give away for the participants….so if you fancy getting away this winter, head to the Philippines and I will see you in Boracay!

Last week I went up to visit a flim set here in the UK…It was the latest Martin Scorsese film, Hugo Cabaret. I hung out with a few of the actors and tried to sort out some film experience on a proper movie. It was amazing to see what goes into everything behind the scenes…mind blowing the level of detail in each take and all the gear that they use!
Here are some cheeky shots of me with my cousing, Emily Mortimer and Sasha Baron Cohen on set:

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So, the last week I have been busy setting up a new company and designing a website for ripslix, the production name that I have been producing my video’s under for the past few years. Check out the start of the new site here: www.ripslix.co.uk

I am just booking my tickets now to the Philippines next week, where I will be competing in the Wind or No Wind event and then hitting Boracay to session with the local North crew there! Looking forward to it :)

So the last few weeks have been a bit rough, the weather in the UK has been closing in and I have been getting some things sorted at home. However now that its fully winter here at home, i am starting to get itchy feet…although it has been nice to spend a few weeks on the Isle of Wight for a change!

I have just got back from a short trip to New York with some friends, as I have never been there before it was great to see everything and check out the city. Nice to get out of the UK for a short one too. So, next stop is the WONW http://www.windornowind.com/) event in the Philippines. In the process of buying my ticket now :)

So after over a month in Brazil, we decided to head down wind to the town of Jericoacoara. What and awesome place, the whole town is totally sand, there are no roads and only sand track through the whole place, feels a bit like the end of the world. The wind there is good too, powered on a 7m every day, great for some mega loops and huge air!

With us we had the whole MAITAI kite camp crew, organized by kite adventures Brazil. This was awesome as we did some huge down winders every day. With the arrival of a new swell here it has been good for some strapless action too!

I will be heading back to the UK next week with Susi, where we shall make our plans for a winter escape to Australia to hit the CORE rail jam…looking forward to it!

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So the last few weeks have been busy, full of down winders. I think i have done at least 150miles downwind in a few days, seeing tones of the Brazilian coastline whilst i did it. It has been great fun. This was all part of the two kite camps that we had organized with ‘kite adventures’ (www.kiteadventures.com), the people that came to join us have been having an awesome trip, with hours of kiting every day and a fleet of buggies following us down the coast with supplies. Definitely a very unique was to see Brazil and I would recommend considering it for next year!

Shortly the MaiTai camp will come to and end and Susi and I are going to head back to Cumbuco for a few weeks to shoots and ride…I will be putting some effort into finishing my latest web movie with some new tricks thrown in! I will post again when its online!

lata t

The last few days have been awesome here in Brazil, I have been riding alot and shooting in the Cumbuco lagoon with Susi, Jeremy Tronet and Lyn Svensen, It has been a super productive few days. We are putting together a travel story from Brazil, so it should be interesting to see what we get. Also i have been shooting some video that i will put out shortly!

Unfortunately I didn’t enter the KPWT here in Brazil, i didn’t want it to get in the way of shooting and it wouldn’t have done anything for my overall world ranking in 2009. So now i have to put my hopes into 2010 to claim a world title.
It has been a hard year this year with so many PKRA world events being canceled…i have a feeling it will get better next year!!

mean while expect to see more shots like this one coming out near you!

cheers

tom

Hey Guys, After several months of online voting on the video contest at www.riders-match.com, my video has been votes into the Final. I am super happy with this and i need your help to win the Final Voting, this would be awesome.

Here is a link to my video:http://www.riders-match.com/uk/member/tom/

see what you think and then drop a vote (remember you can vote every day again!) cheers….

T

After only a few days here in Brazil, i entered the ‘kite show’ contest here in Cumbuco. It was a fun event run with a relaxed format that worked well. After competing for three day in various disciplines I came away with a 2nd place best trick.

Tomorrow there is the registration for the KPWT world tour stop also here in Cumbuco, I think I can get a good result in the freestyle, but im not sure if I will enter or not.

After a hard year of competing on the kite surfing world tour, it has come to an end. The final results have been given and points added up, this has left me in 11th in the world overall for mens freestyle kiteboarding. For me this is awesome, although i fell short of my personal , top ten, goal this year, it is my first full year competing at a world level, so i am supper happy!

leaving me pre-seeded for the start of the 2009 world tour, gives me a good start on the way to my top five goal for next year! let the training begin!