Kiteboarding

BBC NewsKite-surfing safety comes under spotlightOcean fmPeter Armstrong is a kiteboard instructor with the Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal (LSD) Kiteboarding School and Shop. He says kitesurfing is by and large, ...Freak accident kills kite-surferBBC NewsKite surfer killed off Donegal coastIrish TimesMan dies kite-surfing in RossnowlaghHighland RadioOcean fm -Ocean fmall 13 news articles »  

Still from The Kite Runner One 12-year-old was recently the victim of some kite fighting leftovers. The "sport," made famous in The Kite Runner, is popular in Flushing Meadows Corona Park — and now the city is on the receiving end of a lawsuit over it. The Queens boy was skateboarding outside of his apartment last month when he was clotheslined by a razor-sharp wire that had allegedly fallen from a kite fight. The NY Post reports that...  

The South Asian sport of kite-fighting -- featured in the book and movie "The Kite Runner" -- nearly cost a skateboarding Queens boy his life when a razor-sharp wire sliced his throat, according to a lawsuit. Jared Kopeloff was skateboarding out...  

Marc Scholten and Bill Glude roll up a snow-kite after a day of activity. Glude was giving Scholten his first lessons. "It's easier than doing it in water, and the snow is a lot more forgiving," Glude said. "And it's a great way to learn kite skills."  

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE: KRG) announced today that the Board of Trustees declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.06 per common share for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 to shareholders of record as of January 7, 2010. This distribution will be paid on or about January 18, 2010. About Kite Realty Group Trust Kite Realty Group Trust is a full-service, vertically integrated real estate investment...  

FAME: Jetblue begins brilliant ad campaign, opens NYC pop-up shop Thank god, there are still some theme parks open in winter Naked Woman + Richard Branson + kiteboarding = awesomeAlso: Airplane tips for expectant moms flying over the holidays LAME: The TSA doesn't know how to work the internet, tells all secrets Ryanair's CEO is evil Prepare for the end of the world: Doomsday Tourism!Also: A light freaked...  

It's hard to imagine the airline industry before Sir Richard Branson. From his flagship Virgin Atlantic Airlines and the US-based Virgin America, to the latest VAustralia and upcoming Virgin Galactic "space flights," it seems Branson is always on the cutting...  

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- All eyes of the extreme sports world will be on the British Virgin Islands in anticipation of the inaugural BVI Kite Jam, taking place March 1-5, 2010. Five days of inter-island events including flat water freestyle, waves, sliders and racing, plus A-list parties on some of the destination's top locales will serve to highlight the destination as a kiteboarding Mecca for riders from...  

A young Flushing resident who was severely injured and nearly garroted by a razor-sharp kite string while skateboarding Oct. 9, 2008, is suing the city Parks Department and the owner of his family’s co-op for unspecified damages, according to the lawsuit.  

World champion kite-boarding pro Kristin Boese is launching her first world-wide KB4girls kite-boarding tour and looking to etch her indelible mark in this rapidly growing exciting water sport. Kristin has passionately organized and run a total of 16 girls’ clinics around the world in the past 7 years neither for profit or promotion and even with her own funding just out of passion.  

Airtime is owned and run by kitesurfers, when we hire new staff – we make sure they can kite, and if we can’t – we teach them! If you phone our shop, drop us an email, or even come in to the shop for a chat – you can be sure that we do our homework. We work closely with the manufacturers and each product we sell has either been tested by us, or one of our close network of friends (including IKO qualified instructors and Pro Riders)  

Yeah I cba to do that- Im thinking of asking Paul at CKB what he's going to do with marman's now repaired board. I'm going to be testing a proto deck for a bit but I want something a bit fancy! DubStep is online now ...  

SurferTodayAdam Koch wins the inaugural Seattle Yacht Club Kiteboard Course RacesSurferToday35 local kiteboarding enthusiasts joined in on the first of many races in Seattle this past weekend. Between the rain squalls, the wind picked up on ...  

I first saw this story yesterday over at The Outpost, the official blog for Outdoorzy, but it took the Wend Blog to track down the video to really sell the story. In the video below you'll find some amazing, and amazingly insane, footage of two kite boarders catching BIG air, as they jump a pier in the U.K. Wend identifies the two crazy boarders as "three time British Champion Lewis Crathern and Big Air Master Jake Scrace". The duo had been...  

SurferTodayKevin Langeree and Bruna Kajiya are the 2009 PKRA World Tour championsSurferTodayToday would go down in kiteboarding history as the day the PKRA World Championship crown is passed on to two of the most promising kiteboarders in the world ...PKRA Kitesurf World Champions 2009Windfinder.com (blog)all 2 news articles »