Kiteboarding Magazine

Flysurfer teamrider Alex Robin traveled with other French riders to Chile to catch the first snow in the Northern hemisphere and kite between volcanoes.

Aaron Hadlow and videographer Will Milne teamed up to shoot this short movie at Pro Kite Brasil, a kiteboarding school near Fortaleza, Brazil.

Given that wakeboarders and kiteboarders both commonly use trampolines to practice and learn tricks, Kiteboarding magazine decided to investigate a bit and spent some time in one of the world’s premiere trampoline training facilities — Orlando, Florida's The Tramp Place...

Frenchman Alex Caizergues (F One) has broken the world kiteboarding speed record with an incredible speed of 50.98 knots, breaking his previous world record of 50.57. Rob Douglas (Cabrinha) also set a new American outright speed sailing record with an equally impressive time of 50...

by Erik Aeder Late August to September is the time to grab your passport and buy a ticket to Indonesia for some great kitesurfing and Stand Up Paddling (SUP) tripping on the island of Sumbawa. Robby Naish did just that along with some of his team riders and myself to shoot photos of their adventures...

Ben Wilson's new 35-minute movie Shades of Green features phenomenal kitesurfing barrels as Naish team riders Reo Stevens and Ian Alldredge, along with Ben Wilson and Bear Karry happened upon a serious three-day swell in Indonesia...

A sunset shoot with Bryan Elkus, Jason Slezak and Brandon Scheid on 2010 Liquid Force gear turned into the Kite Low video, LIQUID.

During a nice summer day, Dutch photographer Roelof de Vries went to Scheveningen, Netherlands, with Flyboards shaper Eddy Lansink. Specializing in panoramic photography, de Vries captured Lansink riding his Flyradical and Psycho4 Deluxe to create a stunning 360-degree kiteboarding panorama...

Check out this snowkite edit from our Airush Intl Rider Jerome Josserand.

Ready to be inspired? Then watch Cabrinha’s Year of the Rider short kiteboarding video, featuring Pete Cabrinha, Susi Mai, Andre “Dre” Phillip, Cameron Dietrich, Jesse Richman, Damien LeRoy and more...

TRAINER KITE Trainer kites are generally between 2 and 3 square meters and come with a two-line bar and lines. The trainer kite could very well be the best training tool you have since it will teach the basics of steering left and right, flying figure-eight patterns and launching and landing before moving to the much larger kites used to pull you across the water...

An astonishing 7,300 photos were submitted for Kiteboarding magazine's November 2009 issue. Some photos fall into the usual categories of amazing waves or incredible freestyle shots, and others are, well, let’s just say way out there...

When it comes to discovering new locations in the Columbia River Gorge, it’s damn near impossible. That is, unless you have a boat full of exposure-hungry kiteboarders and a photographer in search of never-seen-before Gorge shots...

So what's the deal with the Best Girls? Do they even kiteboard? Well, does it really even matter? Few guys will complain when they show up to a kiteboarding photo shoot or event. They demand attention on the beach and even have the potential to bring new spectators to our sport...

This is maybe the quickest way to relive more than a decade of kiteboarding history. Track kiteboarding's evolution through 10 years of Kiteboarding magazine covers and counting.