Kitesurfing News

What is kiteboarding all about? Simply put, you fly a specifically designed kite and let it push you as you use kiteboards to surf the water.

Slingstock 2009 is a kiteboarding festival at Stevenson's East Point Park. The two-part festival also features a celebration at the Skamania County Fairgrounds for live music, camping and a wakeboard rail jam.

Get all the weather information you need, right from your desktop! Our new desktop application features 15-day forecasts and more hour-by-hour weather! NEW! Lightning Strike Animation! AccuWeather.com MapSpace features colorful, easy-to-read animations of the last two hours of lightning strikes across the United States and six regions.

Twit or Tweet? Michael Evans thinks it sounds like a Halloween joke. IT'S NOT easy staying in touch these days.

The 5boards iphone / mobile application will give boarders the ability to: a Locate boat launch areas a Find wakeboard spots and cable parks a Get the world surf report a Know where the local skate shop is a See real time kiteboarding wind conditions a Snow report and resort finder for snowboarders a Skate park locator a Submit an undiscovered wake ...

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A NEW lifeboat was called into action within minutes of taking to the water on its maiden voyage.

Roughly 100 owners and employees of Maui commercial ocean recreational activities filled a county planning department conference room Friday, many saying that they were befuddled and upset with proposed rule changes introduced by Mayor Charmaine Tavares' administration.

The Action Movie by Leo Goldsmith Not Coming to a Theater Near You Summer, for many, affords the opportunity for every kind of outdoor venture possible, from kitesurfing to bocce, camping to badminton.

U.S. Coast Guard crews are searching the waters off the Deal shore as a precaution, after local police received a call about a kitesurfer who may have run into trouble in the ocean, authorities said.

TEENAGER Jack Daykin is off to Africa to train for the British Kite Surfing Association tournament.

Are You Up to the M-22 Challenge? Triathlon kicks off first year in Leelanau County By Erin Crowell 6/15/09 There were a lot of words thrown around last week during the volunteer meeting for the inaugural M-22 Challenge.

Find out more about Gabe: Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Gabe Brown leapt into the Pacific ocean when he was 6 years old.

By Sasha Forbes 15 June 2009 NSRI Table Bay was called out by Transnet National Ports Authority following reports of a kite-surfer injured on Milnerton's Lagoon Beach.

A kite surfer was killed in a freak accident on Saturday after being lifted by a gust of wind and slammed into rocks in front of a Milnerton hotel.

A 38-year-old kite surfer from Bloubergstrand died on Saturday after strong winds smashed him into boulders at Milnerton's Lagoon beach in Cape town, SABC news reported.

Two more of the six defendants in one of the largest lobster-poaching cases in the Florida Keys were sentenced Wednesday.

The original kite master in Cozumel, Raul de Lille, has launched an informative new Cozumel kiteboarding website.

A leading South Coast water sports store says business is booming despite the credit crunch, with a number of stressed-out businessmen and women buying equipment and signing up for tuition in extreme sports such as kite-surfing to release workplace worry and adrenaline.

Crispin Freeman was left fighting for his life after crash landing in a two-mile slick of jellyfish on a kite surfing holiday.