Features

Airush: 10 Years of the Team Series

We love to catch up with brands when they reach an anniversary. It’s been 10 years since Airush Kiteboarding started their Team Series, featuring high performance products for their elite kiters like Alex Pastor and Bruna Kajiya, but also suitable for the everyday kiter who strives to be at the top of their game…

SELF-RESCUE TIPS

What can you do if the wind dies on you and your kite falls out of the air? Check out these tips for self rescuing.

Brazil’s Brutal Downwinder

As the largest country in South America, and with more kiteable coastline and more kitesurfers than anywhere else in the southern hemisphere, if there was going to be a kitesurfing event in Brazil it would have to be the biggest. Such was the challenge set for the XP Sertões Kitesurf downwinder: come up with the longest, toughest, most brutal kitesurfing event on the planet… Editor-in-chief Alex was (kind of) stoked to get an invite…

My Beach: Valencia & Tarifa

Kiko Roig Torres is a talented strapless freestyle rider and recently came third in the Surfboard category of the GKA Big Air Kite World Championships in Tarifa. Although he currently lives in Tarifa, he’s originally from Oliva, a small town near Valencia on the east coast of Spain. We found out how both spots helped shaped his riding style.

My beach: Rio de Janeiro

These stunning photos of iconic Rio nearly had us booking the next flight over there. It might normally be northeast Brazil that kiters head to, but as Reno Romeu shows, his home spot provides some good kiting conditions too, plus some fine scenery to admire when you’re out on the water. Reno tells us about the beautiful city where kiting started for him.

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Technique: GETTING THE SHOT

We had the great pleasure of meeting up with professional photographer Harry Winnington on Rhodos, Greece during our holidays this summer. Photoshoots are always a process, with many things to be considered and if needed adjusted during the photo session. Together with Harry’s experience and input, and our implementation, we have put together a winning formula of how to get the best results for your kite photos even if you don’t have a camera that’s worth $10k+! Let’s look at camera and shooting equipment, location, time of day, trick selection and posture during the trick, distance to the photographer, and creativity.

Riders: Andrea Zust and Peer Schnyder

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My Beach: Orient Bay, Saint Martin

If, like us, you love kiting in tropical, turquoise waters, then read on to find out more about the beautiful beach in the Caribbean that Theo Demanez hails from, where he honed his skills that helped him come fourth at the recent GKA Kite-Surf World Cup in Sylt, Germany.

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The Mission: Rinse and repeat

Carl Ferreira gives us a quick round up of his time in Italy and Spain earlier this year. It was all going well until sadly he had a déjà vu of last year’s trip and once again had to head home early due to an injury. Fear not though, he’s already on the road to recovery. Better luck next year…

The Mission: TRAILBLAZER

When we recently went on the XP Sertões downwinder in Brazil – check it out on our Instagram – we met a Brazilian who has perhaps done more in her life than the rest of us put together. Not only does Karina Oliani spend time doing the sport we all love, she is also a doctor, adventure athlete and philanthropist who wins trophies, breaks world records, climbs the world’s highest mountains, and enables medical care for isolated communities. After many years traveling the globe, when she needed a relatively quiet holiday, she visited the beautiful lagoons of Lençóis Maranhenses, northeastern Brazil.