Kitesoul Magazine #13 English Edition
In this issue: Wind Voyager Triple S 2016, Tarifa Strapless Kitesurfing Pro 2016, IKA Kitefouil WC, Kiteboarding European Championship, ITW Eric Rienstra, Riders Column: Colleen Carroll, Trip: Caribbean, 2016 Brand Meetings:RRD, Cabrinha, Story: Sky Solbach Homestory, Kite ART, Girl Power, Product focus, Wave and Freestyle tutorials.
In this issue: Wind Voyager Triple S 2016, Tarifa Strapless Kitesurfing Pro 2016, IKA Kitefouil WC, Kiteboarding European Championship, ITW Eric Rienstra, Riders Column: Colleen Carroll, Trip: Caribbean, 2016 Brand Meetings:RRD, Cabrinha, Story: Sky Solbach Homestory, Kite ART, Girl Power, Product focus, Wave and Freestyle tutorials.
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The beginning of the summer season is always<br />
exciting and this year, as never before, all the<br />
events took place so intensively. Starting with the<br />
European Championship of Kitefoil, then the historic<br />
Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational followed<br />
by the super competition Tarifa Strapless Kitesurfing<br />
Pro and the World Championship of Kitefoil<br />
in Italy.<br />
We tried to attend all the events, either directly or<br />
by recruiting prestigious names of the kite world<br />
scene such as Sensi Graves, athlete, bikini designer<br />
for female kiters and author of the article<br />
about this year’s Wind Voyager Triple-S. She took<br />
us to the heart of the most famous Park event in<br />
the scene of kiteboarding, an aspect of our sport<br />
that is becoming increasingly popular, also thanks<br />
to the creation of the Kite World League. Athletes<br />
coming from the freestyle world championship<br />
love it, as it shows from Karolina Winkowska’s second<br />
victory in a park competition. It looks like<br />
a future with increasingly frequent competitions,<br />
with interesting prizes and numerous sponsors,<br />
and we hope that the atmosphere will always remain<br />
as the one of a group of passionate friends<br />
bound by a beautiful and pure vision of sport.<br />
We also witnessed the coronation of the first European<br />
Kitefoil champions, the French male rider<br />
Maxime Nocher and the Russian female rider Elena<br />
Kalinina. Then there has been the tight battle<br />
at the World Kitefoil Championship in Gizzeria, of<br />
which you'll see a photo gallery by our Art Director<br />
Giuseppe Esposito in this issue, and then the<br />
full article in the next issue in October.<br />
After the resounding success in 2015, Tarifa and<br />
the entire kiteboarding arena were waiting for the<br />
second Tarifa Strapless Kitesurfing Pro, which is<br />
now part of the new GKA circuit and which at the<br />
end of the season will crown the most complete<br />
rider in the wave and freestyle strapless scene.<br />
Airton Cozzolino, the 2015 defending champion,<br />
did not get intimidated by his opponents and after<br />
an epic battle, point after point, against his fraternal<br />
friend Matchu Lopes Almeida, he took home<br />
one of the most wanted trophies of the year, by<br />
confirming himself as one of the most complete<br />
and explosive athletes in freestyle strapless.<br />
We were also invited to the presentations of the<br />
2017 materials of some of the most prestigious<br />
brands in the market, never as rich in technological<br />
innovations as this year. RRD opened the<br />
dances in May taking us to the beautiful Bay of<br />
Talamone, followed, at the end of June, by the<br />
Cabrinha meeting which took place in the new<br />
spectacular scenario of the Pro Kite Center of Alberto<br />
Rondina at the Stagnone natural reserve, in<br />
Sicily. Our editor then flew to Tarifa for the North<br />
international meeting of which we will tell extensively<br />
in the next issue...<br />
Dream journeys and accurate educationals complement<br />
our thirteenth issue, together with the<br />
focuses on market news, kite at 360° for a summer<br />
on fire... and we're just getting started...<br />
Roberta Pala