Many people are credited with contributing toward the development of kiteboarding as we know it today, starting with George Pocock in the 1800s who used kites to propel carts on land and ships on the water using a four-line control system to Corey and Bill Roeseler, inventors of the Kite Ski. Yet it wasn’t until two young French brothers with a crazy idea, passion, and a vision for what the sport could become did kiteboarding begin to commercially develop into the sport we enjoy today on land, water, and snow.
Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux became immersed in watersports and competitive sailing at the early age of ten in Brittany, France. They won the French National Junior Dingy Sailing Championship in 1979 and … Pictures and more
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The boys are hungry to keep the Slingshot momentum strong and have just finished 2 weeks of shooting on one of the only public kite parks in the world: “The Gorge”. And once again Alex Fox, Sam Light and Eric Rienstra have raised the bar on what can be done with a kite.
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Chris Bobryk aka Ricky Bobby did it again! Chris spent time in Cape Hatteras, NC training, eating, and sleeping for his PKRA debut this summer. As the only American on the tour for freestyle, he had the weight of the country on his shoulders. Luckily, he’s got a back built like an ox on a strict diet of egg and cheese. Chris Bobryk is the American Sledgehammer.
You’ll get to see several of the best flatwater spots on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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