Welcome to California Kiteboarding the only Kiteboarding Shop in the Central Coast and the 1st Central Coast SUP shop.

Recognize any of California's greatest Premier Kiteboarding Locations?

Pismo Beach, Morro Bay, Oceano, San Simeon, and Cayucos, Waddell, Scott Creek, Crissy Field, Cresent City, Rio Vista, C-Street, Mission Bay, Seal Beach, Jalama, and some other spots we have yet to kite!

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What is Kiteboarding?

There is a sport that is like surfing, wakeboarding, and flying all at once.  If you’ve ever been to Pismo Beach on a windy day, you will see over two dozen kiteboarders in the water or doing tricks high above it.  Most of these riders are ordinary people that are simply addicted to this amazing extreme sport called kiteboarding.

Kiteboarding uses the wind to combine the aspects of surfing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and windsurfing into one extreme ocean sport.  The kite, anywhere from 6-20 square meters, powers the rider through the water.  The kite will have either 4 or 5 lines up to 27 meters long that connect to a control bar, which the rider pushes and pulls to control the kite in any direction.  The bar hooks into the rider’s harness, which is most often worn around the waist. A board similar to a wakeboard or surfboard enables the rider to fly over the water. Check out our kites, boards, and harnesses here

We carry Naish, DaKine, Slingshot, Neil Pryde, Caution, NPX, Starboard, Creatures of Leasure, Ocean and Earth, Werner, Garmin, AzHiAzIaM, MBS, and much more.
 

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Introducing New Snowkite Team Rider Andreas Toverud - Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:03 PM

Flexifoil New Team Rider - Andreas ToverudA little bit about me…

My name is Andreas Toverud, I’m 21 years old and I currently live and study in Lillehammer. I study at the Norwegian Military Academy of Telemetry, and I finish my bachelor degree this summer. I use all my spare time in the winter snowboarding and snowkiting at Hafjelltoppen, my local spot, which happens to be one of the best places for snowkiting in Europe. I’ve been snowkiting for the last 5 years, and love all kinds of sports that involve adrenaline and boards. In the summer I do a lot of skateboarding and wakeboarding. I also go kitesurfing whenever I get the chance, but Lillehammer is a long drive from all the good spots, which mostly limits it to weekends and holidays.

2009 didn’t have that many competitions, but things are looking better for 2010. I came 3rd in the Norwegian snowkiting championship and 5th in the Snowkite Masters, which was kind of a disappointment, but I’m hoping for some good results for the comps that are coming up. Even though the Snowkite Masters didn’t go as well as I hoped for, I had loads of fun, met interesting people from all over the world, and I had a great time in the chalet with the Flexifoil crew.

Home in Norway, we are also working with a new hotel on Hafjelltoppen on some exciting projects like putting up lights for night kiting and building a permanent slider park. We are also doing a lot of filming, and hope to get the guys from the UK over here to do some shooting this Easter… watch this space!!

Andreas


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