Practice Makes Perfect - but these crashes still hurt!
It's a cruel cruel world when you play the game of competitive freestyle windsurfing, but when you're as good as Maarten Van Ochten - even crashing looks awesome!
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It's a cruel cruel world when you play the game of competitive freestyle windsurfing, but when you're as good as Maarten Van Ochten - even crashing looks awesome!
Sofi Chevalier: Kiteboarder, bikini model and editor of Kite Sista Mag, shows you how to swap bikinis between your pretty one and functional one, without flashing the beach.
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.
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!
With one board, and so many competitors, it was close racing and a few shenanigans at Narrabeen last weekend for the 2016 N1SCO SUP World Championships.
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.
It was big. It was choppy. It was classic Peahi conditions for the 2016 Peahi Challenge.
No radio, no GPS, he didn't even know if his tracker was working. Guy started out with a bit of misfortune, but on the day he decided to find his limit, nothing could stop him.
Using rods up to 4m long, Chimps in Africa have been caught fishing off the banks, catching algae and eating it.
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.
On the bench, not arrived, laid up, missed their flight, girlfriend issues... Whatever. Go surfing anyway, like Bernd Roediger does with his little Naish Hokua LE
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!
The swell is pumping and the wind is cranking. It's the conditions that Hookipa is famous for
Could SUP foils be the new norm for surfing glassy tidal bores? Ludovic Dulou has footage to prove it might be...
The all-round Japanese car maker has turned its hand to the marine industry, with big plans to create a strong line of 24- 40ft cruisers.
Everyone has thought about surfing their broken appliances.... But this guy actually did it!
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.
This years Vend?e Globe is taking sailors to new heights - literally!
Get involved in this famous downwind kitesurfing event as rider or sponsor
Ever wondered what happens you strap a trampoline to two SUP's? Backflips!!!
Here's your chance to work in the great outdoors & in the watersports industry
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An interesting video has popped up this week of Laird Hamilton surfing a standard Starboard GoFoil - but he's added one little thing.
Think twice before you leave your car or boat outside the local fish and chip shop. Because someone else might be taking a second look at your gear!
Wing sails are fast, but when they go boom - boy do they go!!!
Chase Kosterlitz shows you how to improve your downwind paddling technique, by making better decisions about where to paddle.
It was meant to happen at Pipe!!!! Instead, John John has won his first world title in Portugal.
Learn everything about the sport of kiteboarding online, with these free kitesurfing instructional videos from North Kiteboarding.
West Oz Kiteboarding requires a kitesurfing instructor for an immediate start.
Toxic Algae Blooms in Southern NSW are causing concern in edible shellfish during the leadup to summer.
Here's three reasons you're going to totally stoked on your first ride at a wave pool, from two guys who's surfed two of the best!
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.
10ft Wave Faces, backwash, wind-wash, ground-swell, and current. That's what it was like out there during the Red Bull Heavy Weather, and Connor Baxter proved that he is in fact, the ultimate waterman...
The WA Sabre Fleet has just finished up their inaugural Opening Day Series. The series was held to promote Sabre sailing in WA and support Sabre yacht club opening day events.
Get out there and wet a line for free, because it's the first ever Gone Fishing NSW Day! No fishing permits required...
A little effort goes a long way when it comes to listing your used gear, and it's almost certain to help you get more money!
Save a session this season, by doing a quick once-over before you launch next
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.
Would you wear a wetsuit that was made with hundreds of thousands of little fur fibers sticking out of it? What about if it kept you totally dry, and toasty warm?
Almost as famous as the event itself, the Mambo Poster (as it was formerly/still known) is a living legend, drawn by a bloke named Stan Squire.
In good news for board riders, SUP is now joining surf ski in a combined event at the 2016 Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games (JPPMG) on the Gold Coast to be held on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November.
With three carbon fiber masts reaching 900ft in height, and NO stays, this superyacht is just as incredible, as it is ugly!
If you're into fun downwinders, testing new boards and surfing pristine beachies, then the Merimbula Classic is the event for you!!
While sharks are scary, so are stand up paddle boards, so here's three reasons why you are NOT going to be attacked by a shark on your next session, or the one after that, or the one 5 days from now.
Surfing into a closeout to avoid the modern day dinosaur, Tyler Gunter sparked a search of the lineup in this weeks QS3000 Essential Costa Rica Open.
Go behind the scenes with Pete and Keahi as they travel around Fiji on board the Cabrinha Quest - a luxury catamaran designed for kiting!
The team from NP go exploring in spectacular South Dakota, in the dead of winter.
Smearing that sunscreen all over your face this summer might be a fruitless endeavor.
Smearing that sunscreen all over your face this summer might be a fruitless endeavor.
12 months after a ban was placed on fishing the Tilligerry Creek and Fullerton Cove, the NSW DPI have lifted it once again, proving that contamination from Williamtown Air Force Base has subsided.
In Glenn Ashby's famous Aussie style, he says the Kiwi Team is going great guns with their in house designed and built AC45 - and this video proves it.
Don't worry, the traditional 'Starboard Blue' colour scheme stays, it's board production and shipping that's going green with Starboard, and Director Svein Rasmussen is shouting it from the rooftops.
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.
These two guys will surfing anything that floats, but so will everyone else in the lineup these days. Surfing as a sport isn't about the performance thruster anymore, it's about the lifestyle and having fun. Just how it should be...
Compete in sailing, ski, SUP and outrigger canoeing at the 10th biennial Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games, to be held 4 - 13 November 2016, on the beautiful Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
On a windy day, out on a dry lakebed, one guy sat in a three wheeled buggy with a GPS taped to his handlebars. That guy was doing over 100kmph, powered by nothing but wind, and it looks just as fast on camera as it would have in real life.
Each and every year since it began, the Red Bull Lighthouse to Leighton event has attracted more competitors than it could handle, and riders have been turned away. This year, they expect the same to happen, but they've managed to squeeze 25 more riders i
After a successful launch event in 2015, the Red Bull Water Maze returns to Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast in November - bigger and better than before!
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