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CROSSING OVER STARTING UP PETER STIEWE

“WE SHARED THE SAME VISION ABOUT ELEVEIGHT IN CREATING A BRAND THAT REFLECTED KITEBOARDING IN THE WAY WE SEE AND LIVE IT.”

Can you tell me a bit more about your background?

My parents were sailors, so I was involved with water sports from a very young age. I started to make windsurf sails in the eighties with a sailmaker who worked at their club. Towards the end of the nineties I started to kitesurf and by 2001 was already designing kites. At that time I lived in the Dominican Republic and, by coincidence, I was neighbours

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