Kitesurf insights is a collection of all the news, tips, reviews and personal thoughts related to the kitesurfing world. A selection of articles to make your life easier, to help you choose specific materials, but also as a starting point to spend time reading about kitesurf.
Interview with Sylvain Morel, co-founder of Sportihome What is Sportihome? Sportihome is a new web-based platform which gather people who practise different sports that can help you and guest you as close as possible to the spot. It is the necessary App to make a great trip" The App is available on [...]
Have you ever wondered why you have to pay a coach to learn a new trick when there are countless tutorials on the web that analyze the move in detail? Why having a coach is important in kiteboarding? The coach is is a professional who helps you in your trainig process. His goal [...]
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”, said Confucio. Do you agree? I agree only in part with this. It's certainly more pleasant do what you love, but it doesn't remove the stress and concerns inherent of any job. If you are looking [...]
As far as i'm concerned, 6 October 2018 is an historic date for kitesurf. Our discipline indeed joins the Youth Olympic Games. The chosen discipline is TT:Racing, a fast downwind race with spectacular jibe and obstacle's jump. At each turning point the riders push their limits at the next level to get any [...]
Interview with the italian champion Francesca Bagnoli sponsored by DUOTONE Kiteboarding and national representative for the ASSOCIAZIONE KITESURF ITALIANA, exclusively for Kitesurfing.it The kitesurf freestyle world tour, organised by World Kiteboarding Championships, is finally started after a long break. The first event took place from the 4 to 9 september in Turkey, at [...]
At the beginning of the 2018 the kitesurf freestyle "new school" seemed to be brought to a halt, so the GKA (Global Kitesports Associations) took the opportunity to launch a new interesting competing format, the Air Games. The goal is to impress and amaze the spectators with the "wow factor" and to identify the [...]
In the last few years several structural changes affected the kitesurf freestyle's world in order to make the discipline the most attractive as possible and to promote it all around the world. The freestyle kitesurf tour had a rough start in 2018 and the tour seemed like it could never start. But thanks to [...]
If you read this article I bet you're thinking of becoming a kitesurfing instructor? But how do you do it and what diploma should you obtain? The most popular diploma is the IKO (international kiteboarding organization) valid worldwide except in France. You probably don't care about it, so you may think this article is [...]