HI HUGH, THANKS FOR CHATTING TO US! HOW DID YOU FIRST GET INTO KITING?
I had been following the winters between New Zealand and USA snowboarding when a mate from engineering school came back from a trip to New Caledonia where he’d got into kiting. His sales pitch to me was how would you like to jump six times higher than you ever have in snowboarding big air, then land softly in the water. Before long we were planning a trip to Aitutaki in the Cook Islands for him to teach me to kite. Upon return, I bought my own Naish Aero 10m kite but didn’t have the finances to buy a board. My local kite store told me that we had an innovative kiteboard manufacturing company here in Christchurch, New Zealand called Underground Kiteboarding, so I approached them to work for
