Claire Lutz

check me out on Inked Magazine’s website

// December 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

http://www.inkedmag.com/inked-people/claire-lutz/

Bahamas Video

// December 5th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Video from my recent Bahamas trip! check it out!

INKED MAGAZINE

// November 18th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I’m pretty excited to say I’ll be featured in Inked Magazine ! I emailed them out of the blue to see if they might be interested and I was lucky enough that they were! Ill be featured in the Dec/Jan issue of Inked Mag! here’s a preview ! enjoy.

DANCE FLOOR

// July 26th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Check out my new slider edit! Im pretty stoked on it! I’m thankful for the guys of the Slider Project and Liquid Force for this Dance Floor so I could practice all my moves!

BAHAMA MAMA KiteSpain Magazine

// July 1st, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized

Stoked to finally get my Bahamas trip published! check it out!!

LF WEBSITE

// May 5th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Check out the cool posting on the Liquid Force Site!

http://liquidforcekites.com/claire-lutz-kiting-bahamas-and-swimming-with-pigs/

Bahamas

// April 27th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

This post is long overdue. and frankly I have been slacking, and there is no excuse. I ended up having a really great trip to the Bahamas.. I went there only knowing one person, who is AJ Watson, the owner and operator of the only kite school in the Bahamas called Cross-Shore Kiteboarding. He was nice enough to pick me up from the airport and even give me a place to crash for a few days. He worked really hard taking me around to every kite spot and even took photos of me. He also introduced me to a bunch of amazing people which led to a ton of great things by his suggestion and random turns of events.

After being in Nassau, the Bahamian capital for a week, AJ suggested I email a friend of his who is a captain on a 62 foot catamaran yacht named Sparrow. After emailing him I was on a plane the next day to Staniel’s Cay.

I was picked up from the airport via Dinghy and was brought to my new home. Being in Staniel’s was a very interesting time. It was such a beautiful place, and I met so many great people from other boats and even my own! A group of us became friends and would go spear fishing everyday and eat the fish that were caught. We had beach bon fires, and swam with pigs. Did I mention snorkeling in ThunderBall Cave where 007 was filmed? Instead of cars you took the tender to get around.

I was super sad to leave Staniel’s Cay.. but we sailed back to Nassau and stopped over night in Norman’s Cay where I had an amazing flat water session. it was a perfect little bay and so much room to kite. It was un real !!! Once we were back in Nassau I bounced back and forth and slept on a few different boats and wasnt really sure of where to go next,.. a friend I had met at Hurricane Hole mentioned he had an open condo and it could be mine for the week.. so I was no longer on boats and moving  into a condo for the remainder of my trip. I no longer had my group of friends from Staniel’s, except one: Jason. Him and I had made new friends and created another family. We did everything together and had the best time ever.

These kids are amazing. they sailed from Martha’s Vineyard to the Bahamas on a 1920′s sloop sailboat. With no bathroom..

at the end of my trip I met a bunch of awesome locals who took me out wakeboarding, and I fell in love with all of them. because of them, I plan on heading back to the Bahamas..

OVERALL: I had a once in a lifetime experience and met the best people in the world. I feel very lucky to have taken that trip, and cannot wait to return. THANK YOU to everyone out there who helped me along the way, without you, my trip would not of been possible. Thank God everything worked out, because heading to the Bahamas with no plan, could go like my trip, really well.. or it could go really bad..

VIVA MEXICO

// February 11th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

MEXICO was amazing. I feel so blessed to have had that opportunity. Chris Rogers and Dan Holbrook from Los Barilles, BCS were kind of enough to invite me down for their first ever event Lord of the Wind Showdown. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from it. When I got there I wasn’t sure on if I was going to enter or not.. I ended up doing it, and I had SOOO Much fun. I had never raced before and did the AM slolam and AM big air. I got 1st in both!! I also entered the bikini contest and took FIRST place in that as well!! I ended up meeting so many awesome people being in mexico and definitely some friends for life! After the event in Los Barilles Nate Appel and I, (my favorite travel buddy) headed to La Ventana for the La Ventana Classic. there we met up with Gregg Gnecco and Gary Siskar, and had the best week ever! we stayed in a little casita next to our friends who are pro windsurfers, and spent all our time at Playa Central an amazing kite school and restaurant. The event was super fun over all and La Ventana was gorgeous!! There are so many memories and crazy stories from this two week trip I don’t even know where to start. Check out some photos below.. Can’t wait til next year!!

Fun in Barriles

Hanging out with Kris Kinn, Dave Grove and Gary Siskar

LF demo tent

getting 1st place metals!

about to go kite

hugging Grom after winning the bikini contest!!

first day on the beach

kiting Choco Lake

Hanging out with BCS

After competing

launching kites

gorgeous board!

Bikni contest hahah!

Being interviewed

fun and games at La Ventana Classic

English Version of My Interview in Kite Spain Magazine

// January 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Interview with Kite Spain Magazine

// December 14th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

SOOO Stoked! I had been working with Kitespain for a few months, waiting for this to come out. so happy with how it turned out!