Irish Kite Surfing News. Updates on Freestyle and Course Kiteboarding
#KITESURFING - The Daily Business Post's recent focus on businesses in Wicklow and Wexford turned its focus to Niall Roche's start-up kitesurfing school based on Duncannon beach. Roche runs Hooked Kitesurfing, which was set up a year ago to teach…
#KITESURFING - Northern Ireland's Jenny Ridley will be among those joining a kitesurfing clinic for people with disabilities in Athens, Greece from this weekend, as Surfer Today reports. The five-day workshop at the Karavi Beach Club in Schinias will be…
#KITESURFING - The decision to include kitesurfing in the 2016 Olympics is a big mistake, a leading expert in the sport has said. Amit Inbar, who represented Israel in windsurfing at the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games, told news agency…
#KITESURFING - Ireland's top kitesurfers and stand-up paddlers will be out in force on Dollymount Strand this weekend for the sixth Battle For The Bay. The second leg of the Irish Kitesurfing Association (ISKA) Tour will see the best of…
#KITESURFING - Windsurfers have vowed to battle to overturn the decision to cut their sport from the Olympic Games in 2016 in favour of kitesurfing. As the Independent reports, kitesurfing has been given two medal events at the 2016 games…
#KITESURFING - An Irish-born Kenyan is putting the East African country on the extreme sports map thanks to her beach resort dedicated to kitesurfing. As the Montreal Gazette reports, Joey Kennaway - who has lived in Kenya since she was…
#KITESURFING - Photographer Luis Faustino has captured some stunning shots of Dublin kitesurfer Rob Clarke in action off Dollymount Strand. "Dublin is quite windy, especially near the sea, in the bay," writes Faustino. "It's natural to see kitesurfers in many…
#KITESURFING - Dublin kitesurfing pro Ross Harte takes our breath away with this video shot from the top of his 12-metre kite, via WorldIrish. The 30 knot winds are clearly no problem for this daredevil as he catches some big…
#KITESURFING - Ireland will be one of four stops on the 2012 Kite Surf Pro World Championship Tour to decide the best wave kitesurfers in the world, Surfer Today reports. Kicking off in Cascais, Portugal in June before heading to…
#KITESURFING – It's encouraging to know there's always somone out there pushing the envelope. Looking at this next generation craft in the vid below shows there's a big future for sailing but just whether it's future's in the water or…
#KITESURFING – So this is what Royal Cork Yacht Clubs' finest get up to in the closed season! A top class crew took to the air at the weekend when Triple all Ireland Sailing Champion Nicholas O'Leary led four people,…
#KITESURFING - Irish kitesurfing's Mulranny Crew have had their best clips for 2011 compiled on YouTube. http://afloat.ie/watersport/kitesurfing The freestyle crew, based in the West of Ireland, describe themselves as "group of enthusiastic local riders, who try to push themselves harder…
#KITESURFING - A wheelchair user from Northern Ireland is defying what's generally expected of people with disabilities by learning how to kitesurf. As Australian surfing website Seabreeze reports, Jason McGrugan has been attempting to teach his friend Jen how to…
Two new videos demonstrate the different sides of kitesurfing in Ireland. http://afloat.ie/watersport/kitesurfing/ The first shows Irish kiteboarder Ryan Coote taking on the intense big surf charged by the winds of Hurricane Katia on the west coast recently. Meanwhile the second…
The Irish National Kite Surfing Festival will be part of the action at the Wexford Kite Surfing Festvial in Duncannon next weekend. http://www.afloat.ie/watersport/kitesurfing/ Kitesurfers from all over Ireland will compete in course racing and a freestyle competition in their bid…
A man was hospitalised with serious head injuries after a kitesurfing accident in west Cork on Saturday. http://www.afloat.ie/watersport/kitesurfing/ The Irish Times reports that the man got into difficulty in high wins while kitesurfing in Courtmacsherry Bay. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0718/1224300883641.html He was taken…
