Kiteworld Magazine

Like a digital music producer we have the chance to build multi-layered experiences into our weekends through the sessions we choose to – or not to - take. Okay, the studios for a beautiful sound can be expensive, but the pathway to affordability beg

GET YOUR 2020 VISION ON. THIS ISSUE WE OPEN MOST WANTED UP TO FOCUS PURELY ON THE COMMON JULY / AUGUST BATCH RELEASES OF BOARDS AND KITES. IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT SOME BRANDS, LIKE OZONE FOR EXAMPLE, RELEASE THEIR PRODUCTS AS INDIVIDUAL ITERA

Airton Cozzolino claimed a magnificent single elimination win against hard charging James Carew at the end of one of a truly stellar day of competition as we went to print on this issue. Airton, James, Oswald Smith and local rider Jeremy Chan had all

It’s amazing that in a world of information so many people can still be ill informed. When the answers to 95% of your questions can be found, within seconds, through the device that sits in your pocket, there has to be an explanation as to why this s

What would you say if I told you there’s a wave that’ll hit a point and then break for 600 metres, giving the potential for rides that can last over a minute with a wind direction that lets you simply park your kite and ride? What if I told you that

There’s a spot on Oahu’s North Shore, sort of a divider between Backyards and Sunset Beach, which marks the end of where riders at Backyards kick out and the point at Sunset that’s too deep to take-off. The name Boneyards spells out the risk from a p

My girlfriend Leni and I met photographer Sebastian Drews on the German island of Fehmarn on the longest day of summer. The conditions were perfect with the wind blowing steadily from the east and somehow there was no one else on the water. Even clos

Kyle Cabanno grew up in Strand, 40 kilometres east of the city of Cape Town. He spent his youth surfing the coastline’s nooks and crannies, only to return years later chasing the onshore winds and flat water estuaries with a kite. Now working in the

Brazil’s northeast coast, from Fortaleza to the Lençois Maranhenses national park, is the best place in the world to go kitesurfing. North facing beaches with super-constant wind, warm water, an absence of large waves and dangerous rocky shores combi

São Miguel do Gostoso is located on the northeast coast of Brazil in the Rio Grande do Norte region, south of Fortaleza. You can kite here year round, but similarly to the famous kite spots like Cumbuco, the best time to travel is from July to March

The further north you go in Ceara, the windier it gets and in Jeri it blows hard from June through to February. Wind begins at 7am(ish) and regularly ramps up to 30+ knots of cross-onshore wind from the right in the afternoon – coating the town’s str

Back in early summer I was sat in the Dulce Numbre hotel in Tarifa watching Robby Naish explain what the new Naish Wing-Surfer is all about to fellow media representatives, assembled dealers and distributors. I’d watched him riding it on his foil boa

Their kites are legendary for being aerodynamically tight designs with potent performance on tap. Kai Lenny seems to have no problem carrying this reputation forward on the Ozone Wasp V1. The focus has been on a low-aspect-ratio design (short and wid

I caught up with Clinton at the UK’s Kitesurfing Armada event in early summer, where he was fascinated by the first ten issues of Kiteworld that we had on display to mark the release of our anniversary edition, #100, last issue. As he flicked through

Twiggy has featured in Kiteworld before for his kitesurfing exploits and we shared a few conversations before this presentation in Mauritius. In my opinion, for a man who excels in very dangerous situations, he’s the definition of humble. When asked

Can you tell me a bit more about your background? My parents were sailors, so I was involved with water sports from a very young age. I started to make windsurf sails in the eighties with a sailmaker who worked at their club. Towards the end of the n

2019 has been a fantastic season for all types of kiting, from lessons and basic progression through to lots of fun, stronger wind days for the experts, especially throughout August here in the UK at least. Foiling’s low wind performance has continue

Namibia is home to the oldest desert known to man, a huge diamond industry and, tucked away in the small, southerly coastal town of Luderitz, a super narrow, flat water speed spot. It is considered to be the holy grail by the fastest sailors in the w

I pulled myself onto the board one more time, exhausted and spluttering water. My knees were banged up from kneeling on the board and my arms were tired from lifting, pulling and holding this new fangled contraption called the ‘wing-surfer’. It was m

Since my recovery from injury I have taken my own personal learning journey much further than I previously thought possible, mostly because I have been re-learning a lot of my old tricks again. Overcoming mental hurdles has been just as difficult as

The backroll transition is quite an easy trick that will make you look like a rockstar when doing something as simple as changing direction. It remains a fun trick to do because you can add to it with extra height or grabs. Although you can try a bac

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Adapting to strange situations or sudden problems becomes easier with each trip. The canny traveller thinks on their feet. The more you travel, the better you’ll get at efficient problem-solving which is of huge value in all areas of life. I used to

The van already had the Quigley 4x4 conversion but was completely gutted inside when we bought it, so was perfect for a build. We took it to Sportsmobile to have the pop-up top installed, but other than that we built everything on it ourselves, from