Get an impression of the PKRA Double eliminations action in the dusty and windy Moroccan conditions.

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IK Surf Magazine has just released the results of the 2012 readers awards, and we're happy to announce we crushed all competition to become the best kitesurfing accessories brand in 2012! Thanks everybody for taking the time to support your favorite brands, products and riders. [ … ]

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Tomorrow one of the most legendary contests will take place. The Red Bull King Of The Air! This time held in wind capital Capetown. Will Ruben Lenten defend his title? The registration of the contest took place at the Mystic House. [ … ]

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This is the first ever multi-use harness, designed for windsurfing and kitesurfing. The Majestic has the high quality you have come to expect from a Mystic harness with added technical features such as memory foam, pre-curved back support mould, and the new high tech Low Torque Clickerbar 3.0. [ … ]

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Ruben Lenten: "Extreme kiteboarding! This is what I do! Ride hard and fly high!" Just watch it! Filmed at the shores of Ireland and Holland.

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The World Champ Youri Zoon and Vice World Champ Bruna Kajiya nailing down some big freestyle tricks.

Just action on top of their game, so sit back, enjoy!

Team Mystic

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The final heats of the 2012 PKRA World Tour season were very intense, as the two most talented riders in the world - Alex Pastor and Youri Zoon - wanted to grab the trophy.

Pastor initially came out strong, landing a nice KGB with a grab. Zoon was obviously determined to go into a Super Final to secure the world title. [ … ]

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On 30th August, Cardiff Bay became host to the 5th act of the Extreme Sailing Series 2012 where kite-boarder Ruben Lenten took on the Red Bull Extreme 40 catamaran by displaying some incredible tricks alongside the boat during day 1 of the competitive sailing. [ … ]

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Mystic is proud to announce we have partnered globally with Kitesurf&Mate - seasports from yachts. These guys organize amazing kiteboarding boat trips, making sure to give you an experience otherwise far out of reach. [ … ]

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Day five of the event in St. Peter-Ording proved to be incredibly busy and action packed. The wind began in the perfect range for freestyle competition, and riders arrived early to the event to kick off the first heats of the single eliminations. [ … ]

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Currently 1st in the rankings, Bruna Kajiya and Alex Pastor talk a bit about what competing means to them. This film was shot during the PKRA event in Adicora, Venezuela by Airush.

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At 61, Sir Richard Branson has become the oldest person to kitesurf across the Channel. A day before the Virgin boss set his 2nd attempt, his son set the record for the fastest crossing, along with a group of friends. Congratulations Sir! Photo by Flexifoil.

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Extremely strong winds, looping action by Ruben Lenten and a competition by Mystic and Red Bull.

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Youri Zoon takes first place during the PKRA stop in the Adicora, Venezuela! Check out the highlights video of the Double Eliminations.

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Marc Jacobs (MJ) left his home town in the Bay of Plenty (New Zealand) and headed south in search of wind. A kiteboarding session at Foxton and a couple of days in windy Wellington was on the cards. Sick video of current world no.4!

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The flying Kiwi Marc Jacobs grew up with salt in his veins and wind in his face in New Zealand, and it was only a matter of time before he hit the water. [ … ]

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It seemed only fair that the world champ should get her own signature harness. So here it is, 'the BK Shadow' inspired by world champion Bruna Kajiya. With an ultra compact design, feather light and super flexible contours allowing for maximum range of motion... What the champ wants, the champ gets.

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Red Bull Ragnarok, which goes down annually in Norway, is said to be one of the most demanding snowkite endurance races on the planet. Obviously attending it was not thrilling enough for 'kite extremist' Ruben Lenten as he insisted on jumping off a 100-metre-high cliff on the Haugastol plateau. Enjoy LEN10's flight.

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Local favorites claimed top spots when 200 snowkiters from all over the World gathered for this year’s snowkite endurance race Red Bull Ragnarok on the snow covered mountain plateau of Norway.

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Looking back in our archives we found some sick photos, this time from a different angle, of Ruben Lenten jumping from one ocean to the other in Tarifa last year. Remember he had just recovered from an ankle injury which kept him out of the water for eight months, and this was his first session back on the water. How far would you go in your first session?

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Ruben Lenten doing what he does best, this time in Haugastol, Norway.

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Not much wind while I was n Perth for the first stop of the Mystic Len10 Down Under Tour, but we managed to make this little clip with Alex Parker. If you feel like seeing more of the tour click here to see some little more.

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Congratulations to Youri Zoon and Bruna Kajiya! Both won the first 2012 PKRA Kite World Tour stop in Dakhla, Morocco. What a great start of the year!

Men's Results

1. Youri Zoon
2. Alex Pastor
3. Eudazio Da Silva
4. Marc Jacobs

Womens Results

1. Bruna Kajiya
2. Karonlina Winkowska
3. [ … ]

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The MYSTIC LEN10 Down Under Tour has been a blast so far! Long days filled with kite demos, shop visits, meeting great people, crazy partying and sharing some good pints of beer. We are now down south in Victoria where we will spend the last couple of days. [ … ]

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With these photos we want to show you a bit of what went down on the other side of the lens, what the photo shoot looked like from our perspective. It is the story behind the 2012 Spring/Summer photo shoot, all done in Tarifa, Spain together with our team riders Marc Jacobs, Ruben Lenten, Boujmaa Guilloul and Bruna Kajiya.

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Mystic is flying ahead with the new 2012 Spring/Summer collection. With new suppliers and a string of innovative new products and styles this new collection represents the next step for the Mystic technical and apparel lines. [ … ]

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Here is the recap of the LEN10 Megaloop Challange that was held earlier this week right in front of The Mystic House in Cape Town, South Africa! Congrats to Lewis Crathern, winner of the event and big up to Ruben Lenten and Red Bull for organizing this awesome event!

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The man himself giving it a go... how is this for an example?

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Watch one of the most innovative kiteboarders, Mr Aaron Hadlow! All performed with flexibilty and freedom of our Shadow waist harness.

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From a handful of destinations to choose from for my pre-season training, once again, I chose to cross the Atlantic Ocean and land on the cold waters of Cape Town. It is not for smooth winds nor flat water that most riders come here, probably most come for the constant wind that blow almost everyday through Cape Towns summer. [ … ]

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It is all about bringing the wow factor back into the sport; and was created by Red Bull athlete and kitesurfing extraordinaire Ruben Lenten. The event will see 24 competitors take each other on for ultimate supremacy. [ … ]

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Sam Light and Aaron Hadlow in Turkey kiting at Ayvalik, Wakeboarding at Hypnotics cable. Filmed and edited by Andi Jansen.
Big thanks to everyone who helped make it happen, Kite Zone Ayvalik, Arzu, and Kemal.

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A video recap of Youri Zoon's 2011 PKRA season, leading to his first World Championship Title. AND to an amazing world championship title party; check out those photos right here.

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Last Saturday night we celebrated Youri Zoon's first world championship title at the Mystic battle center of Natural High in Brouwersdam, the Netherlands, and freaking celebrated it with style. [ … ]

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Still amazed by some of the wake skate videos that are out, now we come across this kite skate video! Awesome video from Cabrinha Kites, we love to see it when brands like this are pushing our sports forwards. Rider is Jason Stone from Cabrinha Kites.

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Now available in stores - the 2012 version of the Warrior III LEN10 harness. New LEN10 colour layout, new clickerbar 3.0 system, same old strength and support, so you can go harder, faster, higher. Have a good look at the harness right here.

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A Different Kind Of Fix - new video with Bruna Kajiya shot in Cabarete, Dominican Republic, where she shows that kiting, and life, is about more than performance on the world's highest level - the importance and fun of just being in the water.

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Marc Jacobs showing off his wakestyle kiteboarding with so much power it's sick, and throwing some megaloops in too! He's riding at his local spots in New Zealand on his Switch Combats. Check out MJ's "Double Bel Air!!" SICK!

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What does the new Freestyle World Champion look for in a harness? Youri Zoon wanted a harness that he could forget he was wearing, compact design, feather light and super flexible, giving him maximum range of motion and enabling him to pull the sickest tricks yet. Well here it is! The 2012 Shadow YZ Pro harness has arrived. [ … ]

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Video and interview with Bruna Kajiya at the Ro Sham Throwdown last July at Hood River, Oregon, where Bruna took first place at the women's division. Shot and cut by Boom Ting Productions.

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The first draft of our 2012 harnesses have been released and are available in stores right now. The new models are the Code01 in two colours, the WarriorIII in four new colours and the Shadow collection also with four new colours. Read the full item »

Ruben Lenten went out for loops practice for an upcoming Red Bull event to be held soon in the Netherlands. 30+ knots and he's out looping while wearing boots...

Thanks to Stefan van der Kamp for the photos.

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Video of Youri's last heat, the final of the double elimination, from the PKRA Germany at St. Peter Ording, the fifth event he won in a row that got him the 2011 World Championship title!
Video by DS Promotions.

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It's here! Youri Zoon has won his first World Title! He won the event in St. Peter Ording, Germany (his fifth in a row!) to become the new world champion of freestyle kiteboarding! Congratulations to Youri for this outstanding performance. [ … ]

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Youri Zoon landing a 900 (Flat 9) during the Kite Masters in Tenerife.

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Here's a quick 2 minutes with Billy Parker, one of LEN10's buddies. This was shot in the south of france and BP was on a 7m in forty plus. The man rips!

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Going surfing or going kiting? Do both! Here's 5 reasons why every surfer should get into kitesurfing.

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Highlights of the PKRA Freestyle Grand Slam Fuerteventura 2011 with comments by Mystic riders Marc Jacobs, Youri Zoon, and Bruna Kajiya

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Youri Zoon keeps getting closer to his first World Championship Title! He has now won 4 out of 4 contests this year, with only two more to go. [ … ]

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Boots, Rails, and Wakestyle: a recap of Bruna Kajiya's action and crowning at the Triple S 2011.

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The final episode of Youri Zoon RECORDED Season 2 has just been released! Watch all episodes of this season on mysticboarding.com/recorded

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The Triple-S contest was amazing this year for Bruna, she really managed to step it up on the sliders and won! She won the Slicks and the Overall as well, a very good job. A video of the Triple-S contest will be finished soon, for now we've got some screenshots from the video footage to get a glimpse of how she did.

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This past weekend, the KBO (Kiteboard Open) took place on the beach in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This is one of the biggest kiteboard events in Europe. Three full days of kite contests, demos, live music, dj's (including dj LEN10 himself), parties, movies and a lot of chilling on the beach. [ … ]

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Here it is! This is Len10's third attempt to jump the Tarifa pier, and his first reaction right afterwards.

To see what went down previous to this attempt, click here to watch the 'Len10 is Back' video.

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The Triple-S Invitational is now taking place at REAL Watersports in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and attracts the top freeride kiteboarders in the world, inluding Aaron Hadlow, Ruben Lenten, and Bruna Kajiya. [ … ]

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Shot in Tarifa, Spain, World Champion Bruna Kajiya talks you through her love for this place, the essence and balance of kiteboarding, wind and life in general, but especially about the shift in her personal goal from becoming World Champion to pushing the whole girls side of the sport to a new level. [ … ]

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Aaron Hadlow takes you through his route towards making the 900. More episodes to come in this one!

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After almost a year long recovery from ankle surgery, how far would you go in your first session? This is Ruben Lenten. And Ruben Lenten is back. Or as he put it: "Len10 is back bitches!"

We took him with us to Tarifa for the 2012 products photo shoot. This is his second session back on the water, and already he is jumping from one ocean to the next... [ … ]

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Youri Zoon talks about his Mystic signature harness, the Shadow YZ Pro.

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Congratulations to Mystic Warrior Youri Zoon, who has just won his third consecutive PKRA event this year! It's a three out of three for Youri, who's got his mind set on nothing else but becoming world champion this year. By now he has won all three events so far this year, which were held in Thailand, Morocco, and now this last one at Leucate, France. [ … ]

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It's ONNNN! Watch episode 2 of Youri Zoon RECORDED right here:
http://www.mysticboarding.com/recorded/

In this episode Youri explains his one and only goal: to become world champion. [ … ]

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A video report from the Red Bull Ragnarok 2011, held last week in Norway. Over 200 participants from 25 countries met for battle on the plains when the Red Bull Ragnarok blew over Hardangervidda for the second year in a row. It was a tough day in terms of weather, where we got all extremes this area has got to offer.

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On Thursday March 31st team Mystic travelled to the beautiful mountain region of Haugastøl in Norway for a 5-day trip to compete in the toughest snowkite race in the world, the Red Bull Ragnarok! We were 17 friends on a mission: to promote the sport of snow-kiting and battle hard on the snowy peaks and slopes of Haugastøl. [ … ]

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Starting April 12th, Mystic will be hosting the new season of Youri Zoon RECORDED right here on mysticboarding.com! All six new episodes will go online here as soon as they come out. Check out this trailer to see what to expect, it's gonna be good!

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Sweepstakes winners have been announced! A Code01 Kite or a Code02 Windsurf harness will go to each one of the winners listed above. If you are one of the winners, click here to send us an email with your address information. [ … ]

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Kiteboarding is in desperate need of a legit rail park...

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Mystic is very proud to bring you one of the most revolutionary harness ranges ever made: The Code Collection with BOA Technology for tension control.

The Mystic R&D team developed a revolutionary harness on which you are able to control your back support at any time while riding. [ … ]

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Video of Mystic's rockstar Eli Zarka from Israel kiteboarding in some sweet waves.

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Mystic Warrior Shawn Richmond riding alone in lightweight winds in La Ventana with his new RRD 12M kite and Mystic Shadow harness, right after winning the La Ventana Classic BigAir-OldSkool competition.

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Scroll through our behind-the-scenes slideshow of the 2011 collection photoshoot, shot on location around Essaouira, Morocco. Essaouira local and Mystic International Teamrider Boujmaa Guilloul played host and took us around as he's been guiding tours there all his life. [ … ]

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This was shot at Table View Bay in Capetown, South Africa earlier today, where Nick Jacobsen climbed a huge crane on the water (while holding his board and kite) and pulled this crazy kiteboarding stunt.

For more photos of this jump go to http://www. [ … ]

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Something NEW is coming... all we are allowed to say right now is it'll be a NEW dimension in back support, something you've never seen before. Keep an eye on this website as we'll launch the full 2011 Spring / Summer collection online any day now!

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What seemed like a dream yesterday is a reality today. First Andy Yates won the single eliminations, then came against Youri Zoon (last year's vice world champion) in the final of the double eliminations. [ … ]

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Check out French kiteboarders Pierre Vogel and Etienne Guena in the beautfiul place of St Malo, Bretagne on just another beautiful day at the office in France!

Pierre and Etienne, always searching for unique experiences with kiteboarding... [ … ]

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I had my eye out on the forecast for a couple of days, as it was all over the news with warnings going out for some big waves and winds!
Last night I couldn’t sleep so well, I could only think of waking up and cruising to the beach to see an epic rough sea and a full blaster of wind!! ?
Woke up at 8. [ … ]

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Last week we showed you the photos of the Dutch Championships of Freestyle Kiteboarding sponsored by Mystic, now we have the video recap of the event for you! The event was a great success, good winds, good action, and exciting heats, especially in the double eliminations. [ … ]

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On The Loose webisode number 21 of season 2 is now out! In this episode Aaron Hadlow and Ruben Lenten paid a visit to the Hood River in the States for the 'Ro Sham Throw Down', a sick slider event. The setup for the event was great, good crowds, fun obstacles, and a good heat format. [ … ]

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Last weekend the Dutch Championships of Freestyle Kiteboarding sponsored by Mystic took place on the beach of Scheveningen, The Netherlands. [ … ]

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Aaron Hadlow's latest short movie, with clips from the Triple S Event in the US, a kiteboarding trip to the Dominican Republic and some wakeboarding in the States. This is Aaron's latest action.

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This is a teaser of the new video of Naish Kites teamriders Rick Jensen and Sam Light called 'Betty Does America'. It's the story of these two kiteboarders on a roadtrip down the West Coast of the United States, going down from Hood River, Oregon towards Las Vegas. Filmed and Edited by Andi Jansen.

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What emotion do you mostly feel while out kitesurfing?

a. happiness
b. freedom
c. peacefulness
d. frustration and anger

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It's not quite winter yet, but some people just can't wait to go snowkiting! It might be time for a new snowboard though, after this session.

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A short edit of Youri Zoon, partially shot with a helmet cam! This was during some good kiting weather we had last week. Depending on the weather next week, they might go out and shoot again for a longer and better video.

Filmed and edited by Andy Troy.

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The last episode of Recorded is here! I have enjoyed every minute that we filmed and traveled around.

I would like to thank all of you for the great replies on the episodes. [ … ]

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Waveriding always looks smooth and easy when you see the pros doing it, but this is the part you don't always get to see, but is always fun to watch! A nice collection of wipeout footage of Ben Wilson, Ian Alldredge and Reo Stevens riding waves, with the appropriate background song. I guess it's not as easy as it sometimes looks...

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Robby Naish, Dave Kalama, Mick Fanning, Beau Young, Ben Wilson, Stephanie Gilmore & Reo Stevens share a day at one of the best rights in the world.

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Profile video of Mystic Warrior Andy Yates, who just won his second event this season and is now leading the PKRA World Tour, only in his second year on the tour! Andy joined Mystic about three years ago.

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Stay tuned for new On The Loose webisodes which will keep coming out regularly now! We're well on our way in season 2 now with lots of footage to edit still. Our latest trip to Gran Canaria was an exciting one, I wanted to go for a giant mega loop, and yanking it back the other way halfway through the loop. [ … ]

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Teamrider Bruna Kajiya won her first event of the year on this year's PKRA World Tour in Fuerteventura's always extreme conditions. Bruna had her game on big time this event and especially in the final, beating Karolina Winskowska with a 5-0 decision in the final heat. [ … ]

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Mystic teamrider Mitu Monteiro surfing massive swells in Cabo Verde in this movie by F One. The F One team met Mitu, Djo and Matchu in Sal Island when a massive swell was forecasted. Along the sessions, kiteboarding or surfing, you'll discover more of Mitu and his close friends. [ … ]

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Why did this photo win the contest? Because it's insane! We feel this picture is original and contains everything about the Mystic Feeling. Nothing can stop you from riding, not even freezing ice-cold conditions like Henrik Mathiasen showed us here. [ … ]

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Polish kiteboarder Maciek Kozerski came up with a plan for a Red Bull photoshoot on a very large frozen lake near Chalupy, Poland and called it the Chalupy Project. Maciek dug a huge ice hole himself in this lake to create the setting for these images. [ … ]

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Slippin' and slidin'! Mystic kitesurfing teamrider Andy Yates and his mates are wakeboarding, kiting, wakeskating and wiping out during some time off on their self-made sliders and during last year's Core Tour Slider Jam.

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Mystic is proud to have been the sponsor of the Dutch Championship Kiteboarding Freestyle 2009. This was the perfect weekend for this contest, we had sick conditions with winds blowing up to 35 knots!!! Featuring Mystic teamrider Youri Zoon and others.

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This is a perfect example of Ruben Lenten doing what he does best: going f*ing huge. This video was shot during an epic storm in his home country of the Netherlands. 40+ knots wind, no one out on the water, and Len10 pulling his signature mega loops!

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