Image by Richard Hallman ~ www.FreelanceImaging.com Race: 1st: Jesse Richman – Cabrinha 2nd: Damien Leroy – Cabrinha 3rd: Jeff Kafka – Cabrinha Story at: http://www.richmanbrothers.com/Blog.html more info on the event at: http://www.nelscottreef.com/2008_nelsco … g_comp.htm Still to come: Wave Freestyle
From surfertoday.com: The inaugural Nelscott Kiteboard Rodeo Pro-Am is scheduled for Friday, May 30, through Sunday, June 1, in Lincoln City. The rodeo is a combination of three disciplines to determine the overall winners. Trophies will be awarded to the top three in each discipline in the respective pro and amateur divisions. The $5,000 purse [...]
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This Week: Special guest on the ASNews.net and The Kiteboarder Magazine podcast is the founder of Cabrinha Kites, Pete Cabrinha. Pete will be joining host Ryan Riccitelli to tell us about Cabrinha’s new Crossbow IDS (Intelligent Depower System) which has been completely redesigned from top to bottom i.e. canopy profile, bridle and bar system. Sponsors: [...]
SOURCE: Gorge Games From: surfertoday.com The Gorge Games 2008 will be held from Cascade Locks to The Dalles – on both the Washington and Oregon sides of the Columbia RiverJuly – between the 17th and the 20th of July. Kiteboarding is one of major attractions of the event. The Columbia River Gorge is a Mecca [...]
From surfertoday.com: Diamond White and Bruno Legaignoux are pleased to announce that they have entered into an ongoing intellectual property licensing agreement with Best Kiteboarding, one of the leading brands. The licensing agreement settles all intellectual property rights between the parties for inflatable kites and control systems, past and present. Ian M. Huschle, CEO of [...]
Join snowkiting World Champion, Chastagnol Guillaume “Chasta,” to explore the unlimited freedom of snowkiting in New Zealand from July 20-27. Located in the heart of the Southern Alps, the camp will take place at New Zealand‘s number one snowkiting spot at Snow Farm. The week will start with an opportunity to tune and transform the [...]
Triple-S stands for surf, slicks, and sliders! This means that the event will be mobile, taking the world’s best riders to Hatteras Island’s best riding locations for each days given conditions. Spectators are welcomed and encouraged to come check out each days festivities. Stop in and check out REAL’s newly opened Watersports Headquarters in Waves [...]
Courtesy of NWKite.com from Wall Street Journal: HUGH BRADNER (1915 – 2008) Physicist Didn’t Profit From Wet Suit, But He Didn’t Mind Much By STEPHEN MILLER May 17, 2008; Page A8 It was Hugh Bradner’s great insight that keeping warm in frigid waters isn’t the same thing as keeping dry. Mr. Bradner, who died May [...]
This Week: New on the scene in 2006, Starkites is in its third year of business and third generation of kite design with its newly released SBow08. Our special guest on this week’s ASNews.net and The Kiteboarder Magazine podcast is Eric Beaudonnat , former co-founder of IKO and co-founder of Starkites based in the Dominican [...]
From flat water to waves, experience Caribbean kitesurfing through the beautiful images provided by F-One who recently traveled to this top secret spot. http://trip.f-onekites.com/Engl/ ENJOY!
The Cabrinha movie, Catalyst, is now available online. Cruise to the Cabrinha website to download the movie or watch a video stream.
SOURCE: IKO From surfertoday.com: Last Monday 31st of March 2008, the IKO, DREAM and IKO volunteer instructors successfully launched a new project aimed at teaching Dominican children how to kiteboard! DREAM Project volunteer instructor Pablito has been teaching children how to swim for a few months so they would be ready to learn how to [...]
Ben Wilson News Hey crew, After the success of our wave clinics in Australia, we are hitting the West Coast of the USA on our SMACK IT UP coaching tour. We start in San Francisco and hit all the good spots down to San Diego. If you want to really push your wave riding then [...]
It’s official! Jeremie just received his new Zen Jeremie Tronet signature model board and has been as busy as ever shooting photos, taking videos and enjoying the Caribbean lifestyle. He worked with Ross (OR designer) to develop the new 129×39 Zen which he says has an unbreakable wood core and x-torsion technology which gives riders [...]
This Week: start up again with special guest Mark Doyle, pro rider for Slingshot Sports. Mark will be joining host Ryan Riccitelli on the ASnews.net and The Kiteboarder Magazine podcast to help you with any problems you may be having with new moves and to talk about his new project where he plans on releasing [...]
Mark your calendars for the weekend of June 6-8 for Canada’s premier kiteboarding event presented by Surf Culture Canada. Always a good time, this year’s event will once again be held on the shores of Mitchell’s Bay on Lake St Clair. Come demo the latest gear from your favorite brands, participate in the kite race [...]
Source: surfertoday.com and KPW: About 50 competitors coming from all around the world More than 20 nationalities (Australia, France, Republic Dominican, US, Norway,) 4 disciplines run in 6 days (Freestyle, Wave, Course Racing, Best trick) Numerous trophies An extraordinary show The most famous stars of Kitesurfing made the journey to Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie and [...]
