HOW TO INTERNET

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TOM BRIDGE

Tom rides like he’s been trapped. Caged. There’s something quite tortured-genius about it, but not because he’s providing feats of technical difficulty, but because he’s finding new angles of attack. He’s taking tricks that have been done for years and remixing them; old school moves with the addition of powered passes. New inverts and megaloops-to-blind. These require a different style of riding; one that often demands a higher kite – something that is considered abhorrent in diehard freestyle circles.

Is he going to win the wakeboarders over? No, probably not. But he is showing a side of kiteboarding that is more appealing to the masses. What’s more is