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Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Armada 135 x 41cm 2014
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Armada 135 x 41cm 2014
Best Kiteboarding Armada

The Armada has been in the Best Kiteboarding line-up for a long time now, this year sees it reach its fifth birthday. Franz Schitzhofer has been shaping the twin tip line up for Best for a while now and he’s a renowned twin tip shaper with years and years of experience. For 2014 the Armada gets a little more rocker...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Cabo 9m 2014
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Cabo 9m 2014
Best Kiteboarding Cabo

The Best Cabo is a wave specific kite that has been in the line up for a few years now. Spearheaded by the likes of Sebastian Ribeiro who just came third on the KSP World Tour and Pedro Henrique the Cabo certainly has some heavy weight hitters behind it. I also happen to know that the designer Peter Stiewe is...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Kahoona+ 9m 2014
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Kahoona+ 9m 2014
Best Kiteboarding Kahoona+

Now in its 6th generation, the Best Kahoona+ has gone through many tweaks and improvements for 2014. The quad strut, delta platform design is an all-round kite for any skill level, combine this with solid bomb-proof construction and you are getting great value for money. With 5 size options to choose from, the Kahoona+ come in sizes 5.5, 7.5, 9.5,...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Spark Plug V2 136 x 41cm 2014
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Spark Plug V2 136 x 41cm 2014
Best Kiteboarding Spark Plug V2

The Spark Plug was launched last year as a new all round freeride model to the Best Kiteboarding twin tip line up. The new model for this year has undergone some tweaks and now builds on what was a very popular model last year. The goal for this year was to reduce the weight and to improve the ride in...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding TS 9m 2014
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding TS 9m 2014
Best Kiteboarding TS

The TS from Best has been in their line up for some time now, over the years it has evolved to become the kite that it is today. Based around an open C-shape platform it is a high performance kite that can handle anything you throw at it. The 9m we have here is a 5 strut design, although it...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Breeze 158 x 45.5cm 2013
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Breeze 158 x 45.5cm 2013
Best Kiteboarding Breeze

Our Test Editor summed it up quite nicely when this arrived “Have they got a giant working at the Best factory?”. Perhaps we should have explained to him that we were testing light wind machines before it arrived. The Breeze is HUGE! At 45.5cm wide it is the widest board in the test, designed for lightwinds it uses that extra...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Capo 7m 2013
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Capo 7m 2013
Best Kiteboarding Capo

The Cabo is a new kite from Best Kiteboarding for this year, aimed at the wave riders out there it is being used by their ever-growing pro wave team to great effect on the KSP World Tour. It comes built to the exacting standards we have become accustomed to with Best in the last few years. One of the main...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding GP 9m 2013
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding GP 9m 2013
Best Kiteboarding GP

The Best GP is the kite that Youri Zoon and Lewis Crathern are using this year, which says a lot about its pedigree. It’s a 5 line C-Style kite aimed at the freestyle rider looking for the ultimate in performance. As such Best looked to build this kite tough, so it could withstand the harshest of beatings dolled out by...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Kahoona 10.5m 2013
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding Kahoona 10.5m 2013
Best Kiteboarding Kahoona

Version 5 of the popular Kahoona kite makes it the longest running kite in their current line up, and like the ever popular Waroo before it, it has plenty of fans around the world. The + means the kite is equipped with the EZ Pump single point inflation system so you can spend less time on the beach and more...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding TS 9m 2013
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding TS 9m 2013
Best Kiteboarding TS

Best have come a long way since their bold beginnings all those years ago, the equipment just keeps getting better and better. This year the TS v2 incorporates their new material, Double Core RS, this is a canopy material that weaves two high tenacity filaments into the warp and weft of the fabric alongside the other fibres to ensure maximum...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding TS 9m 2013
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding TS 9m 2013
Best Kiteboarding TS

Best have come a long way since their bold beginnings all those years ago, the equipment just keeps getting better and better. This year the TS v2 incorporates their new material, Double Core RS, this is a canopy material that weaves two high tenacity filaments into the warp and weft of the fabric alongside the other fibres to ensure maximum...

Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding GP 7m 2012
Kitesurfing Reviews - Best Kiteboarding GP 7m 2012
Best Kiteboarding GP

The GP from Best is a totally new kite for 2012 and it fills the hole left by the Yarga when it departed the range some time ago. Like most brands Best concentrated their efforts towards kites with bridles and the popular Yarga got left by the way side. But with a strong freestyle team rider focus, and with boards...

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We all need a bit of feel good in our lives today, this film about David, he was 77 when this film was made in...

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6 years ago

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and check out Hannah Whiteley newest video in Cape Town! The energy, the vibes, the people, she can’t get enough...

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7 years ago

This edit of the French team foiling is impressive stuff! It features some beautiful steady cam shots of the foilers going full speed!

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7 years ago

It's all good in the Hood. Some stunning light and big tricks one afternoon in the Hood River Slider Park. Check it out.

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7 years ago

Racing through the dunes!! This event is awesome! Red Bull Rally dos Ventos is a kite-endurance competition taking place deep inside the Lençóis Maranhenses National...

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7 years ago

Check out this interview filmed for the final event of the 2017 World Kiteboarding League in New Caledonia. It was a fantastic final and the...

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7 years ago

The colour of the sea in Kenya & Zanzibar is quite possibly the best in the world! As always with these areas, great drone footage....

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7 years ago

FAIL! Today's #wipeoutwednesday is HORRIFIC. This guy genuinely gets dragged over a van after he has released his chicken loop... The other 9 launching crashes...

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7 years ago

OH MY WORD! The crash at 1:30, megaloop to sand is absolutely insane! The rest of the edit is of course epic. Make sure you...

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7 years ago

Sam Light joins the Triple S team for Episode 4 to break down what it's like to ride the John Wayne Cancer Foundation Mega Rooftop,...

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8 years ago

Afonso Fernandes is just 16 years old and is already making a big name for himself in the surf kiting world. Check out his edit...

8 years ago

Well we've got to say Lapland looks like a pretty spectacular place to snowkite! Maybe on your next holiday you can see Santa and get...

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Issue 63

Did we make you famous and did you win a T-Shirt?

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Issue 51

Have you ever thought about entering a competition? Dom Moore has some sound advice this issue, one of his best pieces to date, enjoy!

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Issue 50

At the sharp end of our sport there has been a major upheaval, Rou Chater investigates the changes that the Virgin brand is bringing to kitesurfing on the world tour...

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Issue 50

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Issue 49

Hannah Whiteley releases a video and the world goes mad...

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Issue 48

Nuno "Stru" Figueiredo is here to help you survive a huge wave wipeout; Portugal delivers the beasts and he destroys them!

10 years ago
Issue 48

Lewis Crathern isn't your typical pro rider, part MC, part eco warrior, part pro rider, the all round nice guy and brand ambassador for Best gets the 10 questions this issue...

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Issue 46

Rou Chater chats to three of the recently crowned PKRA Junior World Champions, Vera Klabbers, Tom Bridge and Noe Font, he also grills Tom's parents about their part in the equation too.

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Issue 44

We've got lots of new 2014 gear on test this issue, some twin tips for your riding pleasure feature alongside a few new kites too...

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