The Kite Mag

Colin Colin Carroll’s Loveletters to Kiteboarding

As we know, Colin Colin Carroll is a humble individual, so he hasn’t told many people that he has recently graduated (with slightly below average marks) from his PhD in Advanced Kitesurf-Boarding Social Anthropology, attained from five years of dedicated field work at the University of Novotna, Czechoslovakia. To mark this monumental academic achievement, he offers an excerpt from his soon-to-be-published thesis, boldly titled ‘Social Observations of Kite Propelled Humanity’ – it’s an intimate appraisal of commonly observed demographics and their behavioral patterns that surround us at local kite spots. At least he’s doing something constructive with himself and not just relentlessly fawning over Tom Bridge on social media to pass the dark hours…

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