The Kite Mag

CARVING A PATH

JALOU, YOU’VE BEEN THREE TIMES KITE-SURF WORLD CHAMPION. HOW DOES IT FEEL FOR YOU TO SEE STRONG YOUNG RIDERS COMING THROUGH – DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF ‘SIS - TERLY’ PRIDE?

I’m definitely proud. Peri Roberts won this year’s tour, and I see the fire within her, the way she trains. I see that with Capucine too. You need that fire to become World Champion. It’s not in every rider; they don’t all breathe that same kind of energy. I see myself in their energy – that fighter’s mode energy. And I love seeing that when it appears in the next generation. I can really relate to Capucine – hers is almost like the brother situation I used to have, traveling together all over the world, our parents there to support us – it seems like history repeating, how

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