Kitesurfing News

Western Australia's Top Kiteboarders Crowned - NKL Round 2

The Classic Holidays National Kiteboarding League Round 2 in Perth came to a close yesterday with Western Australia's best kiteboarders battling the wind and the waves at The Pond, Safety Bay.

Kiteboarding Instructors Required: Melbourne

Work in St Kilda, Rye, Altona, PArkdale, Brighton and Balnarring for a new Liquid Force Centre in Melbourne: Kitearmada!

Light Winds Ground NKL For Round 1

With winds less than 10 knots all weekend, it was a beach party for the riders competing in the first round of the National Kite League.

Western Australia's top kiteboarders will be putting on their best show as Round 2 of the Classic Holidays National Kiteboarding League (NKL) hits Perth this week.

The Biggest Kicker Hits You'll See Today: Mowgli's Jungle.

Christophe Tack might be a self confessed newbie when it comes to hitting kickers, but if his latest vid is anything to go by, we might have a new champion in town!

Kite Instructor Wanted: Perth, WA

Full time or part time but you must be available in the weekends. KA, IKO, BKSA, VDWS certified and you must have or be able to get a working holiday visa in Australia if you are not a resident.

Defying gravity: Strapless Double Front Shuv-it!

Two front rolls and a 360 degree shuv-it. That's 900 degrees of strapless wizardy that nobody thought possible just a few years ago. And Matchu Lopes busts one out in training this week!

We Be Jammin' - Highlights from the Hood River Slider Jam

Back in August, the worlds best kiteboarders headed home to the Hood River, Orgeon to spend a few days hitting the park. Here's the highlights reel, and it's jaw-dropping.

An Interview With the Boot Guru: Clinton Filen from Airush

There's a simple fact about bindings. Wakeboarding bindings just don't cut it, when it comes to kiteboarding. That's why Airush designed their range of bindings from the ground up.

NKL Hits Melbourne City Square!

The NKL was launched this week in the heart of Melbourne with a couple of team riders and some kiteboarding gear - it's going to be huge!

Ride with the Shop Owners at the Naish Dealer Conference

Watch the highlights of the 2017 Naish World Dealer Meeting on Maui, where 'real' riders test the new gear and score some epic surfing conditions.

WAKSA Redkite Charity Downwinder

Get involved in this famous downwind kitesurfing event as rider or sponsor

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North Launches Kiteboarding Academy - Free Instructional Vid

Learn everything about the sport of kiteboarding online, with these free kitesurfing instructional videos from North Kiteboarding.

Kiteboarding Safety Tips with Lenten and Zoon

Kitesurfing instructor needed for immediate start

West Oz Kiteboarding requires a kitesurfing instructor for an immediate start.

Keahi's back! Takes WIN in Dakhla on his first comp

After spending the season off the water with injury (again!), Keahi is back, and he's shown the world that he's still got it.

Pre Season gear checks for kiteboarders

Save a session this season, by doing a quick once-over before you launch next

Where are your pants mate? Kite Rescue Gone Wrong!

A rescue in good faith turns out to get a little ugly for this guy, when both the guy and girl he drags in start grabbing the bar.

Disappear with Pete Cabrinha, Keahi and Chapter One.

Go behind the scenes with Pete and Keahi as they travel around Fiji on board the Cabrinha Quest - a luxury catamaran designed for kiting!

A Snowball in the Face, and a Kite on the Side of the Road..

The team from NP go exploring in spectacular South Dakota, in the dead of winter.

Are you wasting your time with sunscreen?

Smearing that sunscreen all over your face this summer might be a fruitless endeavor.

What Does Strawberry Picking Have To Do With Kiting?

It turns out, that Strawberry Picking is the glue that holds many kiters and their time in Australia together, thanks to a little place on the Sunshine Coast in QLD. Danni Durant knows all about it.

An in-depth look at the North Click Bar

North's Jeremie Tronet unboxes the new North Click Bar, and takes you through how it works, how it rides, and why North say it's a 'Game Changer'.

Tom Herbert Sure Does Love his Evo!

Hilarious, full of action and gorgeous locations - must be time for another episode of Toms Kitchen from North Kiteboarding.

Four Girls Who Love their Home Spot - Where the Wind Blows

Given the choice between a tropical beach with palm trees and sunshine; or the muddy slicks and slider park outside Real Watersports? They'd drop that coconut in a heart beat.

Kiteboarding on a Mirror - Amazing flat water

Laci Kobulsky and Aaron Hadlow find a spot in Sicily with flat water. Mirror Flat water, with not a single ripple despite having plenty of wind for freestyle.

Convertible Kite Racing CR:X brings one-design to kiting

Neil Pryde have begun testing a new one-design class that could be used for the Youth Olympics, and perhaps even the major Olympics in the future!

Car buying tips for Kitesurfers

Whether you're the type of kiter who spends more on gear, than they do on a new car - or you like a arrive at the beach in style. Here's a few tips to help choose the perfect kiteboarding car this summer!

NKL Returns in 2017, bigger and BETTER!

The National Kiteboarding League is back for the 2016/2017 kiteboarding season, and this time it's set to be bigger than ever, with some key changes to make the NKL better for both spectators and riders.

The North Click Bar - a new approach to kite trimming

Truly Revolutionary, the new Click Bar from North kiteboarding has features that you probably never knew you needed. But after riding one for just a few sessions, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Is this the most efficient inflatable yet?

With high aspect ratios, come efficiency and high performance. Could the Cabrinha Apollo break the barriers that inflatable kites face today?

Less Weight. More Durability. The Airush Load Frame

This week Airush kiteboarding released their core range of equipment to complement their more specialised pro collections, and shared a little more information about their "Load Frame' technology in 2017.

Kiteboarding in Patagonia is Truly Breathtaking

Three of the North Team set out in search of a truly unique kiteboarding experience, to kite in front of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia.

Sands of Time - Futuristic Freestyle by Aaron Hadlow

You won't see freestyle like this for at least a couple of years, or until the kids learn to mimic the grand masters of modern freestyle like Hadlow...

Presenting the 2017 Cabrinha Collection

Lots of goodies from Cabrinha kties this summer

This Clip will Get Kids Stoked on Kiting!

Taken from the animated movie 'Capture the Flag', this short film isn't quite factually correct when it comes to kiteboarding, but it sure will get the kids stoked on the sport!

Girls can go strapless too!

Cynthia Brown shows that girls don't need footstraps, as she flies high over the Hood River and Baja...

Quad-Tex - Naish releases Quadrupal Ripstop for less tears!

How many rips can rip-stop stop, if you add four stops to stop rips?

Say No to life jackets! Sign this Petition

A recent ruling by NSW Maritime has changed the rules relating to Kiteboarders and Life Jackets. Now, kiters must wear a life jacket. All the time. No matter how close they're kiting from the beach!

This is 2017 Airush - Team | Reefer | Diamond | Progression

Fresh off the cutting room floor - Airush have shown a sneak peak of their 2017 lineup in an appropriately titled video 'This is 2017 Airush'.

Chapter One - A story about how kiteboarding became great.

This movie promises an incredible story of the sport of kiteboarding, delivered in a full length feature film, shot in 4k.

Twintip Kite Foil Released with Inflatable Board!

The first video of a twintip hydrofoil have just hit the internet, complete with

Job Opportunity - Working with the sports you love

The Kite and SUP industry are ever changing and this is an exciting opportunity to fully embrace the sports you love with your work.

Cabrinha Fireball - Set to change the way kiters 'hook up'.

Why design a system for unhooking, when 90% of riders will never do it? Cabrinha have designed the first connection system exclusively for the sport of kiteboarding, called the Fireball.

Bridge Bro's Break World Sailing Record on Kites

A long standing record in the UK has been broken by two brothers on kite foils, with the womens record being broken by their mum!!

Learn how to S-Bend with Ewan Jaspan

It's a great move to learn just after the Railey, and when done right, an S-Bend is one of the best looking tricks in the book. Learn how to do one, with Ewan Jaspan.

Does your favourite kiter chick, kite NAKED in Winter?

This one isn't your typical 'boardies over the wetsuit' debate, these girls tell all about what they wear UNDER their wetsuits.

Cool Strapless Tricks with a Twintip/Surfboard

Watch these super fun little tricks with a twintip and surfboard in the beautiful St Martin.

Get Seabreeze.com.au on your mobile phone!

The Seabreeze site is available as a native App for your Apple or Android phone, as well as mobile optimised for your web browser.

How to make the most of your kids kiteboarding lessons.

Teaching kids to kitesurf isn't an overnight process, but there are a few tricks to make their first experience an overnight success!

100 yr Old Man Goes Kiteboarding for his Birthday!

What a legend! This bloke celebrated his birthday on Maui with a few of his mates, by hitting the water with a kite and a catamaran.

What's the difference between a 6m kite. And a 6m kite?

Part 2 in our Kiteboarding for Kids series, explains the difference between a kite that's been scaled down to 6m, and a kite that's built to be a 6m. Or 4m. Or any size for that matter!

Got kids? Start 'em young. Start 'em now!

Part One of our series on getting your kids into kiteboarding. This installment, we explain why trainer kites are the best way to start, and why NOW is the time to fly one!

Watch a Kitemare unfold, and a rescuer ask for money!

This kite instructor gets tangled with a learner, extracts the two kites, gives away his own kite and then has to pay for his own rescue in Mauritius.

This is why Windsurfers convert to Kiteboarding

Poor bloke... All he wanted to do was go sailing, and his mate on a kite couldn't help but show off!

A Masters Degree in Life, by Traveling the World Kiting

Canadian kiteboard Sam Medysky chose to spend his life in search of friendship, kiteboarding locations and adventure. So this year he packed his stuff, and chose to stay in Canada but travel 5000km to Squamish - kiting the whole way.

Kiteboard 4 Cancer in it's 10th Year

Ten years, hundreds of thousands of dollars raised and 150+ kiters are each event, the Kiteboard 4 Cancer has become a seriously big deal for the sport, and people living with Cancer.

Pro Camp in Fiji with Dan Sweeney

Blast your kitesurfing skills into the next level with a pro rider in a magic location

ZANZIBAR Island, Tanzania, East Africa NOW ON SALE

Amazing location on a beach that's all yours...