New kiteboarding movie released - 'With a Kite' is here!

Davey Blair poses on the set of "With a Kite"
Warn your internet service providers, your download limits are about to be maxed! ‘With a Kite’ is here, and it’s 80 minutes worth of HD, slow-motion goodness on your computer screens.

‘With a kite’ is the latest kite movie out of the USA that’s been reviewed as: “Not quite up to Autofocus standards, but still a great movie about an epic event”. While it’s not the best review we’ve ever heard, it’s pretty much on the money about this ‘doco’ turned kite flick.

“A Brotherhood of riders who shaped a generation. An annual pilgrimage that defined a sport forever.”

The annual pilgrimage they’re referring to is the Triple S competition at Real Watersports in Cape Hatteras, USA. The story takes us through how the event became to be one of the biggest in kiteboarding history from its humble beginnings as an invitational event for a few mates.

Shot on location in Cape Hatteras, N.C., Hood River, Ore., Nitro City, Panama, Tampa, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., the film opens with a narration by Sir Richard Branson as the history of human flight via kite unfolds through custom watercolor cell animation. It's pretty cool, and certainly a different take on the usual kite movie intro. 

“With a Kite” then follows Davey Blair and some of the world’s best riders as they make their annual pilgrimage to the Triple-S Invitational in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the cradle of human flight.

Started in 2006, “Triple-S” stands for surf, slicks and sliders, where riders compete on strapless surfboards in the surf, wake-style boards in open water freestyle on the “slicks,” and over obstacles like sliders, rails and kickers. Filmmakers Adam Boozer and Tim Tewell self-funded the project, traveling to numerous locations over the past two years to interview riders at the Triple-S and other events, and get insight into their lives as well as the growth of the sport.

The film was shot entirely on state of the art equipment, including the RED EPIC camera at 5k resolution and the Phantom Miro Digital High Speed camera, which captures 1000 frames per second for incredibly detailed slow-motion shots

Those slowmo shots are what makes the movie really, there’s nothing cooler than watching a guy do a handlepass at sunset with his leash flicking around in mid air. (He lands it by the way)

Check out the trailer below, and if you’re keen to watch the whole movie then buy it! It’s only $12 and well worth it.