The Kiteboarder Magazine

North America's largest amateur kiteboarding event has announced their dates for 2013. Book your tickets to the Gorge: July 12-14.

Book your travel to the Gorge for North America's Largest Amateur kiteboarding event. July 12-14, 2013.

Follow the Slingshot Kite team as they build and destroy a few unique rails.

After the Ro-Sham Throwdown competition in Hood river the Liquid Force crew decided to stay a few more days and ride the new 2013 Envy and HiFi-X.

Here's the 2012 Ro-Sham Throwdown video. Check it out!

LTD visited Hood River to capture one of the most progressive and mental shredders out there. Eric Rienstra AKA The Predator shows us what the hood life is all about.

Bringing the world’s first-ever kiteboarding slopestyle contest to a close, yesterday concluded the third annual Ro Sham Throwdown, a week-long international pro-am event set in Hood River’s world-class terrain park.

While day five of the 2012 Ro Sham Throwdown started off with super light winds, conditions improved greatly by early Friday afternoon and Heat 3 Round 2 kicked off in Hood River’s world-renowned terrain park.

As the wind filled in through the Columbia River Gorge early yesterday afternoon, the Women’s Finals of the 2012 Ro Sham Throwdown resumed.

Day three of the world’s first slopestyle kiteboarding contest received excellent conditions, perfect for women’s finals and the first round of men’s qualifiers.

Amidst strong, steady winds on Tuesday in the Columbia River Gorge, the 2012 Ro Sham Throwdown kiteboarding competition commenced with two rounds of Women’s Qualifiers.

Thirty‐five men and eight women from Antigua, Australia, England, Scotland, the U.S., and Uruguay will battle it out throughout the week at the first‐ever slopestyle kiteboarding competition.

Kiteboarding 4 Cancer is streaming all the action from the 2012 event in Hood River this weekend, July 14-15.

New US Team Rider Paul Porter put together a few short clips of him throwing down on the Best HP and Profanity.

Oftentimes when I ride with Danny, he yells to me out on the water, “DO SOMETHING AWESOME!” and he’ll trail me until I show him something. It pushes me. It’s fun. And, it always results in me having a better session in the end.