Kiteboarding Magazine

Check out footage from the 2009 Hood River freeride, featuring Brandon Scheid, Sam Bell, Davey Blair, Chris Burke, Jake Cook, Matias Ricci and Dylan Thompson.

There is no denying that when it comes to kiteboarding, Real Kiteboarding — located in Waves, North Carolina — goes big. This became clear in late May when two Wake Park Project flatbed semis pulled in front of Real’s 21,000-plus-square-foot flagship store and delivered the John Wayne A-frame...

Summer 2009 is over, but Kiteboarding magazine is helping you relive the season's hottest action. Here we've gathered the best kiteboarding pictures from Kiteboarding magazine's September and November issues...

Lauren Cook, Dylan Thompson and Joby Cook have success checking in their oversize baggage curbside. Are kiteboarders singled out and charged more simply because of what's in their bags? Why is it that golfers can check their gear bags on a flight with no problem – nor extra charge – but we kiters all too often pay loads of additional dough to board a plane? Are we somehow inferior to golfers because we tote boards and kites rather than irons and woods? Judging by the baggage policies of a majority of commercial airlines, this seems to be the case...