Kitesurfing looks awesome in the pictures. Turquoise water, bikinis, and board shorts. A lot of kiteboarders actually enjoy this kind of pleasant environment. In reality, an equally large amount of kitesurfers, unfortunately, live and kite in countries with no tropical temperatures, and that makes packing for the beach trip even more important. Here is some […]
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Kitesurfing in Finland is not the easiest. Because here is not that many days with wind, and not so many good beaches near to where people lives. The most of the people lives in the Helsinki-region, and in Helsinki there is no good kitebeach at all. There is a small one with a lot of stones, called Lauttasaari, Laru or Drumsö, where you can kite in winds from southeast. There is also Kallvik, or Kallilahti where all winds from south and west works, but besides of those mall ones, there is nowhere to kite in Helsinki.
100 kilometer to the west from Helsinki there is a small city, Hanko, or Hangö, that have a couple of good beaches that works in almost every wind-direction.
If continue following the coastline to the west and north, we find Pori, where the beach Yyteri lies. That is a little north from the city Turku. That is a quite long beach that works in every kind of wind from the west.
If we continue north, following the coast, we comes to Storsand, a great beach between Vaasa and Kokkola. That beach is one of the best when there are wind from the North-west. There is also nice waves.
When continuing further north, 100 km above Storsand, there is a place called Lohtaja. That is, if you ask me, the best location for kitesurfing in Finland. There are about 5 km of beach, with both waves and flat water, and it works in every western wind, from south to north. And the best part, it is completely empty. There are never any people there because of the location. To get there you have to drive through a military area on small bumpy roads, and because of that there are never any swimmers there. Excelent kitespot!
When continuing north, we comes to Kalajoki, where you find a good beach with some campings and restaurants on, and a surfcenter as well. That place works in western winds.
Further north there are as well some good spots in Oulu, like the Island Hailuoto.
The reason why I write about kitesurfing in Finland is that I live here and have to use the spots there is. And the spots on the west coast are far from crowded, so welcome everyone!
Kite, Car and Surfboard. The ultimate Kook-package – Finnsurf edition
25.03.2015
A car, a kite and a surfboard. Perfect for the one that want to start their Finnsurf career. See the kite as a bonus. Only 1100 €. Only one package left, only available in Finland. But probably worth reading elsewhere as well. To the ultimate kook-starter kit Finnsurf edition.
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Lina in kitesurfing video from Finland – Summer 2013
10.02.2014
In this kitesurfing video, Rautio Sports rider Lina Björkskog is riding different spots in Finland with her Airush Razor kites during summer 2013. Tricks like raley to blind, back to blind, kiteloops and more are practiced in the video, as well as a couple of nice crashes and some cable wakeboarding.
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Picturefactory testing new Jib by filming Kitesurfing
08.08.2013
The motion picture company Picturefactory made a new rig for filming smooth cameramoves, and tested it by filming Airush Finnish teamrider Lina kitesurfing on the Finnish westcoast. Here is the video: You get quite nice camera moves with a rig, right?
KommenteraKitesurfing in Hanko, Finland. Some waves included
06.05.2012
This is what it can look like when kitesurfing in Finland. This is filmed from one of the best kitebeaches in finland, the beach named Tulliniemi in Hanko. Whan the winds comes from south-east, there are often some great waves there as well. (or great for being in Finland).
KommenteraJesajasport made us Spleene teamriders in Finland
28.10.2011
So now it is official. Thanks to Jesaja Sport (Website), we (Me and my wife Lina) are now Spleene teamriders in Finland for the 2012 season. The two first kites are on their way to us from Germany right now.
KommenteraKitesurfing at Storsand with a semi-broken foot
29.07.2011
Today 29 July 2011 I was Kitesurfing again at Storsand, on the west coast of Finland. I hurted my foot yesterday when wakeboarding in Bosund, but I tried anyway to kitesurf. People had been at Storsand all the day, but I managed to get there when I had finished working. I went there with two […]
KommenteraPictures from Kitesurfing-SM, Kalajoki X-games 2011
16.06.2011
So X-games has been held, and as well the Kitesurfing nationals in Finland. The only problem was the wind. There were no wind on the saturday when it was supposed to be, and on Sunday it was windy for a while, so that the competition could be started, but not finalized. But there were a […]
KommenteraFirst kitesurf session in Finland 2011, at Lauttasaari
03.06.2011
The 2011 season started with some kitesurfing at Tarifa for me, but now the Finnish water has got a touch of my bails as well. The kitesession at Lauttasaari (Laru) was quite nice, even if it was quite crowdy and with quite gusty winds. There were about 15 kites out there, and the water is […]
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