The Kiteboarder - June 01, 2015

FEATURES THIS ISSUE:

THE VALUE OF NOWHERE – Keahi de Aboitiz disconnects from the endless pings of his smart phone and joins the Cabrinha Quest in the South Pacific to explore the value of escaping social media. Pete Cabrinha and Reo Stevens join in on the adventure and score a machine-like left.

CABARETE: THEN AND NOW – From chaos to conciliation, photographer Jason Hudson travels to Cabarete to document the historical currents that changed the sleepy fishing village into one of the world’s top Caribbean windsports destinations.

BEHIND BARS – Before finding the bar of a kite and philanthropy, the founder of Dream Extreme Kiteboarding, Linda Argila found herself in Danbury Federal prison for harboring the father of her child, an international drug trafficker on the run from the FBI.

THE TRIPLE-S DECADE – Take a walk down memory lane with the riders of North America’s most prestigious and progressive kiteboarding event. Tkb compiles the greatest memories of 10 years at REAL Watersport’s Triple-S Invitational.

INDONESIAN REFLECTIONS – Reo Stevens takes a look back to the early exploratory days of Indonesian kitesurfing: Old friends, macking waves and ice cold bottles of Bintang beer.