Kitesurfing News

The first time Keegan Myers wore a t-shirt bearing the logo for state road M-22 -- the scenic drive that traces the outline of Michigan's pinkie finger -- it was sort of a joke.

LeFeve discovered the sport back in the late 1990s, when the place he was working as a windsurfing instructor received some kiteboarding equipment to check out.

After two decades in downtown Hood River, OR, Dakine announced the move of its headquarters to a new waterfront development at the city's port.

When kite-surfing enthusiast Trace Carlos joined friends and fellow kite surfers Traveler Terpening and Tom Fredericks to organize Homer's first kite festival in 2008, none of them knew what kind of response they might get.

Exmouth-based Edge Watersports has announced that its annual Edge Race Cup has once again been selected as the second event of the prestigious British Kite Surfing Association's UK tour.

About 14 years ago, Michael Giebelhaus scraped together enough funds to place his first order of kiteboarding equipment to sell out of a Bend skateboard and ski shop.

Puerto Rico has become the kiteboarding center for the entire Caribbean thanks to a regular windy season and the proliferation of top quality schools.

Firefighters arrived on the 1800 block of Shore Line Drive around 7:20 p.m. and found a kite surfer about a half mile out in the bay, according to authorities.

The St. Francis Yacht Club is hosting the North American Kite Racing Championships where Friday, June 7th, the best kite course racers in the world are going head to head in San Francisco's back yard.

This pursuit , which involves attaching one's wakeboard to a large kite, provides for some extremely entertaining -- and sometimes uncontrollable -- fun.

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A 41-year-old man has been rescued after going missing while kite-surfing. Costas Erodotou, 41, of Limassol, was found at sea early Thursday after going missing hours earlier off the Ayios Ermogenis area near Curium.

Dozens of colorful kite boards sit on San Francisco Crissy Field beach waiting for the start of the North American Kite Board Racing Championships.

Shoreham Kitesurfing Club is hosting the first in a series of free safety clinics during the summer.

The CEO of Samsung Electronics, the global powerhouse in the semiconductor and mobile technologies markets, is hot to trot for Boston.

Great Britain's trendiest windsurfing spot -- the sand bar is shallow enough to pick up waves up to four meters even with a limited swell running beneath.

Seeking relief from the extreme pressures brought on by assuming corporate chief officer responsibilities, "C-Suite" executives are turning to the thrill and danger of kiteboarding a.k.a. kitesurfing.

The 21-year-old Twilight hunk was spotted at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on Friday with actress and former professional kite boarder Maika Monroe .

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation passed a motion Monday requesting staff look into the feasibility of creating a public area at Spanish Banks for kiteboarders to lawfully launch.

Kiteboarders are asking the Vancouver park board to end a summertime ban on the sport and allow them to launch from the beach at Spanish Banks all year round.