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FIRSTS | WITH BRANDON SCHIED

FIRST SETUP?

My very first kite setup was a LF Drop 136 with a pair of Best bindings. I also had a 12m Wipika Hydro and a pully bar. 

FIRST KITEBOARD VIDEO THAT YOU WATCHED?

AutoFocus.

FIRST PRO YOU MET?

Jason Slezak.

FIRST CONTEST?

Triple-S.

FIRST TIME YOU THOUGHT I COULD BE A PRO KITEBOARDER?

When I took 2nd in the Triple-S behind Dre.

FIRST CAR?

1995 Monte Carlo.

FIRST KITEMARE?

Not knowing how to stop yet and riding through the slick and crashing head first into the bank. Then got dragged into the swamp on my non-depowerable kite. That or getting lofted at Planet of the Apes.

FIRST CONTEST YOU ENTERED?

Triple-S in Cape Hatteras.

FIRST PRO MODEL?

Liquid Force Echo.

FIRST KITEBOARDING TRIP?

Cabarete, Dominican Republic.

FIRST SLIDER YOU BUILT?

The original Red Bull Big box for the Fly to King of the Air contest 2005.

FIRST HORROR MOVIE YOU WATCHED?

Ernest Scared Stupid

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