Recent features from the print magazine...
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Throw two great design minds together in the form of Reedin’s Damien Girardin and Brainchild Production’s Ralf Groesel, and you know you’re going to get outstanding products. We chatted to Damien about the creative process behind their latest HyperModel, the first of Reedin’s kites designed and manufactured in collaboration with Brainchild Production.
Photos Loan Folliet
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After watching Leo Verrecchia’s video “The Wind & The Wild”, we caught up with him to find out more about his recent trips to Brazil and the US. He was stoked to report the 2023/24 season was his best kite season to date – he experienced significant progression in his riding, explored new places, made new friends, and had unforgettable experiences. And when he eventually returned home he topped it off by winning the Australian Freestyle Nationals…
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We’d never heard of the Angolan island of Baía dos Tigres before this story dropped into our inbox, and after reading through we could see why it doesn’t exactly pop up on every kiter’s destination wish list. Mystic team riders Camille Delannoy, Graham Howes and Oswald Smith, together with photographer Kyle Cabano, videographer Jop Heemskerk and local guides Matt Sakko, Tiaan Hoeben and Donovan Mark, had an adventure getting there that goes down as one of the most perilous we’ve ever printed.
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Hopefully you already noticed this issue’s epic cover of Matchu Lopes – who came second on the GKA Kite-Surf World Tour for the last two years running – deep in the barrel, the stuff dreams are made of. Axel Reese caught up with him in Tarifa and also chatted to Luis de Dios, Matchu’s personal trainer and mental coach, about what it takes to be a success.
It’s been a massive 30 years since RRD’s first production collection, and as we love celebrating an anniversary, we caught up with brand founder Roberto Ricci to find out more about how these three decades have gone.
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We hadn’t heard of Greek kiter George Kintis before now, so we were curious to find out more about him. Originally from Athens, he spends most of the summer teaching on the island of Paros, as well as training in his favorite discipline of Big Air. He was stoked to be invited on his first trip with the Eleveight crew, to spend a week on a Kite2Sail catamaran in beautiful Sardinia.
The latest version of RRD’s flagship wave kite, the Religion, has just launched, and they’ve also brought out a brand-new Aluula-blessed Gold version.
Photos Samuel Tomé
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Airush have just added an innovative new control system to their lineup – the Magnum Control Bar – featuring an all-new Auto Untwist feature. We found out more from designer Tyler Ryan.
Photos Mitchell Doyle Markgraaff
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Prolimit have been proactive regarding wetsuit sustainability for some time now, and are very proud to announce that all their new wetsuits are now completely neoprene free. We spoke to Alex Cretier about this latest development.
Photos Marius Brosset and Thomas Roos
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Naish have released their latest Pivot plus a brand-new control system, the Sync bar. We spoke to designers Ewan Jaspan about the Pivot and Noah Hoffman about the Sync.
Photos: Andy Troy, Frankie Bees, Ryan Quinn, Samuel Cárdenas
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New Zealand’s Hugo Wigglesworth recently broke the WOO World Record with a jump height of 36.7 meters. We chatted to him about this achievement and the ERA kite that took him stratospheric.
Photo Sophie Aynaud
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Stig Hoefnagel loves a photoshoot and in this instance it bagged him this issue’s cover. But when he headed out with photographer Andy Troy to capture the latest Big Air kite from Naish, the Psycho, things turned out a bit spicier than they’d planned… They ran into the cops and helicopters, and Stig wasn’t the only one flying that day…
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Nathalie Lambrecht has consistently appeared on the podium over the last couple of years, both in Big Air and freestyle competitions. She came into the recent Lords of Tram event as the favorite and achieved the biggest score of the women’s contest. But a missed trick in her first heat saw her battling for survival in round two. How would she keep the focus needed to fight her way through the gusty conditions to the final and a podium place…?
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