Eric Diamond has completed the 55-mile kitesurfing challenge of round the Isle of Wight, in UK. The kitesurfer entered a journey to raise funds for the Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Tony Hawk is pretty busy these days. When he’s not acting in commercials or creating best-selling video games, he’s likely raising money to build more skateboard venues in hopes of keeping America’s youth out of trouble and in shape.
In case you don’t know about Hawk, he’s widely considered the greatest competitive skateboarder of all time, winning nine gold medals at the Summer X Games. Nowadays the 43-year-old “Birdman” is retired. His main focus is the Tony Hawk Foundation, which has raised more than $3.2 million for nearly 500 public skate parks throughout the United States.
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Ireland is the windiest spot in Europe for kiteboarding. Dursey Head was considered the kite arena with the highest number of days with more than 4bft winds (beaufort scale), in 2010. The Irish wind heaven registered 274 days in those conditions.
Europe is a great continent for kiteboarding. The analysis made by the German magazine “Kiteboarding” covered 15 countries  … More
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