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  • The Kite Mag

    RAPHAËL SALLES

    Mar 26, 2020 6 minutes
    PHOTOS COURTESY F-ONE

    SO, LIFE BEFORE F-ONE. WHAT WERE YOU DOING?

    I had been a pro windsurfer for 15 years. So from 1980 to 1994 I was competing in all kinds of windsurfing disciplines. My best result was in 1985, 3rd overall in the Funboard World Cup.

    AND WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO SET OUT ON YOUR OWN TO BEGIN F-ONE?

    In 1995 it was time for me to end my professional windsurfer career and start a new adventure. I was fully invested into R&D, and I decided that I should start my own windsurf board brand: F-ONE. I chose the name because F.1 was my sail number when I was competing…

    The windsurf market was really going down at that time and I was not traveling around the world to the best spots anymore, so I needed new and fresh sensations. I looked into the power kites and got amazed by the power they could provide in light wind, so I started kitesurfing in the summer of 1996. From the first

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