No Work Team News 2007


December 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 9
  perfect days for Kite boarding 13
  perfect days for surfing 21

The Big Air Kite School is changing a lot. After the first half year at our new spot we start remodeling the face of the school. Everything is getting nicer and more easy for our clients.

Old school:                                                       New school:

Old Kite School     New Big Air Kite School

The new Waroos 2008 arrived and they are really great. The 2007's were good, but the 2008's are even better. More stable and faster. Come to try it out! Soon we will also have the new 2008 line of the Starkites. Check also the new Tangerine Palace Hotel, which offers bed & breakfast and all the accesses to the all inclusive resort right beside. You can book this with us and we can offer you very good deals if you book a package like hotel + kite course or hotel + kite rent. Check the hotel under Hotel Tangerine Palace!

November 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 6
  perfect days for Kite boarding 10
  perfect days for surfing 24

Right beside our kite school 'Big Air' a new bar + restaurant, called "Caravelle" opened and even if it is part from the hotel it will be open for everybody. During the day they will serve nice, cheap dishes for kiters hunger and at night it will be a more luxury dinner place.

October 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 10
  perfect days for Kite boarding 10
  perfect days for surfing 13

Tropical storm Noel passed our island and left a big disaster in the south west part of the country, because of the torential rains. We instead were lucky again. We just saw some rain, a lot of strong wind and huge blown out surf at Playa Encuentro.

September 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 18
  perfect days for Kite boarding 21
  perfect days for surfing 13

Cabarete is lucky. It is one of the few town who can open bar until 3 am again every day. Cabarete's parties can start again. So check it out!

August 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 20
  perfect days for Kite boarding 21
  perfect days for surfing 20




July 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 20
  perfect days for Kite boarding 23
  perfect days for surfing 21
     
     
     
     


Cabarete Classic 2007
Cabarete offered perfect conditions for the windsurfing Race, Slalom and Freestyle Cup end of July. Over 50 Competitors from all over the world were fighting in 10 diffrent categories in racing and were showing incredible moves in the freestyle competition. The Mini Juniors Freestyle was dominated by the young kids from Curacao and the winner was Felix Martina. The mens freestyle saw a very close and spectacular final with local winner Samuel Perez.

The slalom winners are:

The formula winners are:

The mini juniors winners are:

We thank Pablito Guzman for the organisation and all the volunteers and sponsors for the help to make this funtastic event happening.

Encuentro Surf Action
With the beginning of July we moved our surf school "Encuentro Surf Action" from Coco Pipe directly to the main spot in front of Encuentros right break and we are working now together with the surf school Buena Onda and Ali's Surf Camp. The quality of the lessons will be still very high and the surf pool for your rental will be much bigger now. Please check the new prices!



June 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 21
  perfect days for Kite boarding 24
  perfect days for surfing 14

Our Kite school moved again. We are now back to our place right beside the Viva Windham Tangerine Hotel. The name off the school changed too. The new name is 'Big Air Kite School' and the service will be the same or even better.

Presidente Kite World Cup 2007
PKRA World Tour is coming again to Cabarete from 27 of June to 01 of July 2007. Since 7 years Cabarete is hosting the best Kite boarders of the world for one week of spectacular action. This year they will fight for world cup frestyle points and they will show what is possible with kite and board in a "board off" competition. Besides the action in the water we are expecting a lot of side events and big parties at Cabaretes famous night life. So come and enjoy your vacation and let's see what the Dominican Locals can show against the world's best riders!

Cabarete Locals were ripping it up this year with Ariel Corniel as winner in the mens' freestyle contest and Susi Mai was best in the “board off” competition. Conditions were perfect with good wind every day and even nice waves and shore break. We saw five days with incredible action on the water and the first time in the history of Cabarete WC that a local guy could beat the worlds best kiteboarders. The good result was completed with the 4th place of Alex Soto from Las Terrenas. Second place went to Alvaro Onieva from Spain who was then winning the "Board off" Competition on sunday. The winner of the womens freestyle was Bruna Kajiya from Brasil.

May 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 11
  perfect days for Kite boarding 14
  perfect days for surfing 12
     
     






April 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 12
  perfect days for Kite boarding 14
  perfect days for surfing 9
     
     






March 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 11
  perfect days for Kite boarding 12
  perfect days for surfing 20
     
     


MTV Canada goes surfing with NWT
MTV Canada with it's spring break show came to Playa Encuentro last week to take surf lessons with No Work Team. You can see the action on MTV in Canada end of April for MTV Live in Dominican Republic or later on their website: www.mtv.ca.

February 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 10
  perfect days for Kite boarding 15
  perfect days for surfing 16
     
     
     
     
     


Pablito Guzman qualified for the Pan Ams
Congratulations Pablito!
Pablito Guzman, our team rider in windsurfing, has been qualified for the Pan American Games on the olympic board. This is the first time that a dominican athlete is qualified for these games in sailing and now he has good chances to qualify to the Olympic Games, too. Keep on sailing or live slow - sail fast, like our No Work Team friend Herbert from Isla Magharita would say.

Pablito Guzman in action

January 2007
  perfect days for windsurfing 12
  perfect days for Kite boarding 19
  perfect days for surfing 22
     

Cabarete offers good wind, nice waves but a lot rain in the first half of January The wind direction is still East almost the whole month and waves and shore break are very moderate this year, but sometimes we get nice surf. We got just one little storm with huge waves, strong and gusty wind and lots of rain.

    


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