Tyson Poor has conquered the 2012 La Ventana Classic 11-Mile Island Crossing, held at Baja California Sur, in Mexico.
The event represents the spirit of wind riding. Great weather conditions, superb windsurfing and kiteboarding competitions, paddling clinics, live auctions, parties and fund raising efforts.
Again, the old and healthy rivalry of windsurfers and kitesurfers was … More
Alberto Menegatti has conquered the famous 2012 Langebaan Downwind Dash, in South Africa. Up to 237 windsurfers, kitesurfers and other watercraft competed in the West Coat, from Langebaan all the way down to the port of Saldanha.
In the end, windsurfers raised the flag against rival kitesurfers. Menegatti completed the challenge in  … More
Louis Gomez is 73 years old and he’s an avid kitesurfer. Yes, it’s not 37, but 73 years. This former software engineer for JP Morgan Chase discovered kiteboarding when he was 65 and decided to give it a go.
“I told my wife that sport just didn’t exist when I was younger,” Mr. Gomez tells The Wall Street Journal. “To heck with that, I wanted to  … More
A group of intrepid kiteboarders will try to cross 22 kilometres of the south Evoikos Kolpos Channel, in Greece, on the 4th of February 2012.
Ilias Katirtsigianoglou, Spyridon Sofianos and Sandrine Roussos Werner, co-founder of the Global Kiter Foundation, will be joined by a team of volunteers to raise funds for charity and mark the World Cancer Day.
The crossing will take them from Marmari (Evia) across the channel to … More