Duotone Magazin No.01 2019

EVER BEEN JEALOUS OF A TEAMRIDER’S LIFE? TRAVELING THE WORLD, KITING THE BEST SPOTS, BEAUTIFUL BEACHES, CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS, PERFECT CONDITIONS ALL DAY LONG … WELL , REWIND! IT MIGHT NOT ALWAYS BE WHAT YOU’RE EXPECTING! We accompanied part of our Freestyle Team on their very first shooting for our new brand Duotone. Tommy Kaiser, Head of International Marketing, chose Saint Brandon as a destination – an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about 430 kilometers northeast of Mauritius. Pretty beautiful, pretty remote, pretty promising regarding conditions and set up. But also pretty hard to reach… In June last year Tommy, together with Matchu Lopes, Reno Romeu, Hannah Whiteley, Tom Hebert, Jérôme Bonieux and a team of photographers and video filmers set out for a trip that would turn out to bring them all to their limits… A teamrider’s life – here is what it’s (sometimes) really like! True dedication is when you’re spending 27hrs on a boat to get from Mauritius to St. Brandon. Not to mention the little storm that made it all even more fun… T R U E T R U E 1 6 1 7 R E M O T E B O A T T R I P