Heres a vid from the other day of Norths new Kite the Neo Kitesurfing in te waves of West Cornwall.
Starting to get the hang of editing, hope you like it?
cheers
lee

Check out the video of my personal riding on the recent Pasty Adventures coaching holiday in Dakhla, Morocco. Full vid of the trip coming soon!

Heres a vid I put together from the other day. As it was the last day of the tide for the nets it meant I was able to film both fishing and kiting in the same day as we didn't shoot back. This is my normal routine for most of the year, but normally in Jan its too dark to fit both in. Was real rough in the morning and couldnt get any good footage with the Go Pro on my head but the wind dropped off a bit for the last 2 nets.
Luckily it picked up again after we got in and I started off on the Rebel 9m with chest mount before moving onto the Rebel 7 with line mount.
Bit of a dodgy edit but i'm only now getting used to Premier Pro. Got a professional making my wrap up vid of 2011 and also some exciting new projects so stay tuned for more to come!
Hope you enjoy this little insight into my world!

The first ever stop of the Kitesurf Pro World Championship Tour
will go down in history as the best kitesurf event ever and has broken new ground within the sport of kitesurfing. With pumping wind and waves hitting the One Eye reef at Le Mourne on the paradise island of Mauritius, the world’s best kitesurfers showcased their talent and the sport of wave riding to the world, live on the web thanks to, Extremience and the KSP video crew.

 The buzz on the beach has been amazing with riders from around the globe coming together, all with the same goal in mind of pushing the sport forward and riding the best waves in the world. Legends of the sport such as Herve Boure (FRA), Sky Solbach (USA), Marc Ramsier (SUI) and former World  Champions Kristin Boese (GER), Jesse Richman (HAW), Mitu Monterio (CBV), Guilly Brandao (BRA) were joined by young and old unheard of names in the sport of kitesurfing outside their respective countries such as Mauricio Pedreira (BRA) at age 36 and Ozzie Smith (RSA) at 16. The UK was represented by myself, Lee Harvey and 4 time race world champ Steph Bridge.

Before the event some huge swells had been coming in and riders were claiming best kite waves ever, which is hard to believe, until I arrived on Tuesday 20th and it was 8-10ft grinding barrels with cross off 7m weather. This place is simply amazing, windy every day with swell after swell coming through and even the small days still kicking up a very ride able 2ft on at least one of the 3 waves on the outside of the lagoon. After 3 days of practise, a meeting on the judging criteria and general info on how the tour will run, we got down to business with the event kicking off on Friday evening.

On Saturday we were awoken by thunder on the reef from the huge waves. The wind however was slow to awake and after a quick expression session to assess the conditions and the judges to get a scoring scale, I was up in the first heat around 3pm.  

Round 1 consists of 3 riders with the winner advancing to round 3 and 2nd place moving to round 2. 
Riding my 9m 2012 North Rebel and strapless 6’3 Resin8 Tokoro I  was up against the local video trials winner and an unknown rider from Reunion Island. I narrowly missed out on the win by 0.3 of a point to the local, which left me miffed as I only scored a 2.6 for my first wave which was a huge wave in the 12ft range. However looking back I remember thinking as I was dropping in that I couldn’t see the judges tower with the other 2 riders on the 2 waves in front, lesson learnt for Peru and at least I got to ride again! With the wind dying the contest director called it for the day with 5 of the men’s round 1 heat's still to run. 

Sunday dawned a little smaller but still pumping around 6ft and after the 2 remaining men’s heats, Steph was first up in the ladies, easily advancing riding strapless with powerful turns in the critical section. The big upsets of the day were former wave world champs, Mitu and Guilly both losing, thus drawing each other in round 2!

Next up for me was French legend and fellow North rider, Jeremie Eloy who’s been charging really heavy waves such as Teahupoo lately. Commentating all morning watching some amazing rides with long open sections, I elected to stay down in front of the judges while Jeremie rode further upwind on the softer Chamioux section. Scoring a great 1st wave I couldn’t get another to open up, and taking a heavy beating which left my ears ringing I bowed out of the comp. The day ended after the end of the ladies round 2 with  the big news of the day that, Mitu won against Guilly.

 The level of riding that followed was simply insane, with over half of the men’s riders going strapless, this event has truly pushed the sport of kite wave riding to new levels with all of the final 4 going up against each other with Mitu riding both ways and Jesse the only full time backsider. In women’s Steph was unlucky to come against local wildcard Ninja in the semis where she narrowly lossed after electing to ride straps for the first time in the yet again triple overhead barrelling waves while Kristin crashed her kite and lost her heat to French rider Marie Gautron.

The finals went down the next day in slightly smaller waves but, what an amazing show and I’ll leave the full report to the KSP press team. I would like to congratulate the winners, Airton Cozzolino and Ninja Bichler who were deserved winners after being the standouts all week. I’ve also got to thank the whole KSP team, judges, local organisers and Indian resort for putting on the best event I’ve been to by far. Also JB who in his own words has the best photos from any watersports event or location he’s ever been to.

Big thanks to my sponsors without whom I would not be able to represent Cornwall and the UK on the KSP World Tour-
Sportif, North, BKSA, Resin8, Freeriders, Wiley X, Rip Curl. 

And of course Tara and my whole family for their continued support. xxx

Bring on Peru!
Cheers
Pasty

All action photos John Bilderback. Big Thanks, be sure to have a look. If you want to purchase any for your own use please contact me in the first instance.

Stoked to have joined the Newave Team and am loving riding the new boards shaped by French legend Marco Copello. Newave are all about strapless riding with a kite and the 5'8 Play and 6'2 surf are going sick!
The Play goes super well in waves up to head + half high and rips in smaller stuff and chop. Its balanced really well and is great for airs and tricks. I have also paddle surfed it and it goes nice for a small board, is real loose and slashy but you need to be a good surfer to get te most of it or it will be too small.
The 6'2 excels in bigger waves and holds super smooth off the bottom even in windy choppy waves and releases nicely off the top. Great for waves from chest high to double overhead. Paddles really well too with quite a bit of volume so would suit an average surfer up to 85kgs as a all round surfboard.
Maxtrack have just taken on the distributor role in the UK so you will see them in the shops soon.
If anyone wants to test out the boards in West Cornwall, I will have a few in the van at all times so just ask when you see me at the beach and innovate your riding!
www.newaveboarding.com

Hi all.
Ive just put up a news article on my winter here in Cornwall http://www.leepasty.co.uk/news.html with some great pics. Still working on some video but should be up soon.
Enjoy and hope to see you somewhere windy and wavey soon.
Lee

Waves are pumping in strong corss offshores. The Bluff last 2 mornings has been huge, triple overhead yesterday and 21/2 overhead today on the 7 rebel with some absolute crackers and a few closeouts meaning having to dive out through the back as it was sucking sand and draining off the bar. Some of the waves going right looked like snapper or somewhere absolutely dredging with the bigger lefts looking like chopes as you were trying to outrun tem and make it out without getting destroyed.
Still had a blast strapless all by myself yesterday morning then it was like the whos who of UK wave kiting in the afternoon with myself, Rob, Will and Sillsy all strapless with a few others out strapped having the waves of their lives amongst the windsurfers. Was a lot smaller than the morning but still head and half easy with some nice walls as the tide came up.
Only greif came wit Blackie on his windsurfer running over Sillsys lines and then almost having a punch up 'Dont you know who I am' !
Still the local boys (myself, Will B, Sillsy & Alex Hapgood) showed the blow ins and the 20 odd winsurfers how wave riding is meant to be done-NO STRAPS & IN THE POCKET!
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Then this morning was back on it early and it was huge again. No one else outapart from me then finall Rob and 1 other ventured out for a little bit while the windsurfers took cover on the rocks!
Was awesome to start with, long grinding double overhead+ lefts smacking about 5 turns each wave then on my 4th i hit the lip a millisecond too late and got my board in the nose causing a blood explosion. Got  the other guy to ave a look out the back and after the blood stopped decided to stay out for another hour and half.
Once it was closing out too much came in to look in the mirror to find a big hole under my nose and a cut going into left nostril. Bugger!
Been to hospital and got it glued wit the nurse saying you must stay out of thge water for 5 days. yeah yeah!
Got some spare glue off her but going to have tomorrow off and get back on it monday!
Will try get the pics and vid off the guys and stick em up.
Happy safe riding
Lee

Just had 4 days straight of epic conditions down here in west cornwall.
Thursday was classic kiting on the 9m Rebel at Gwithian, mast high waves and even a barrel for Silsy before getting caned.
Friday was huge mast and half and super windy, I was on 4m kite before it suddenly switched onshore and it was way too big to ride in cross on wind.
Saturday was sick, super offshore but again the 2011 North Rebel 9m shone and worked amazing. Really showed the windsurfers who were down for the British champs, how to ride waves properly and without the need for straps!
All in all 3 solid days of kiting and scoring more waves than all the windsurfers put together!
Today sunday was epic Leven for surfing 6ft plus and wide barrels. Had to work catching crabs first but managed to get a few in after. Bit rusty after concentrating on the race board all summer and not much swell around but had a few nice lefts and a real nice right.
So pleased the swell is back now so can get my surfing back up to where I was last winter.
Awesome forecast for wind & waves the rest of the week now, winter is finally here.
Ye Ha!