On February 1, 2012 the KB4girls foundation released its long awaited calendar of international events for the 2012 season. The female kite community has received the event calendar with excitement and many girls have already registered for their events of choice. Have you seen the 2012 KB4girls GLOBAL event schedule yet? If not you better read up on it now and sign up for the event closest to you now!

Starting off this year’s KB4girls GLOBAL Tour, will be an event based out of Sydney in cooperation with the NSW Kite Boarding Association (NSWKBA) KITECHICKS, scheduled for the weekend of March 10th -11th 2012. The NSWKBA KITECHICKS group, lead by Priya Mohandas, organizes not-for-profit female clinics for beginner to advanced girls with huge success, creating a real stoke within the female kite community in and around Sydney. As Sydney’s beaches are challenging for beginner girls, the group roams to beaches north and south of Sydney, with this KB4girls/KITECHICKS event to take place in Culburra, 2 hours south of Sydney NSW. Culburra offers a perfect spot for the beginner lessons as well as a super fun beach with little kicker waves for the advanced group. The event will be limited to 20 experienced and 6 beginner spots, and all girls must be AKSA insured under their NSWKBA membership. The event is due to be launched within the week on www.nswkba.com.au/events so keep an eye out as it sells out within the first 24hours. You will not want to miss this event that will see Pro‐instructors Marine Sudre and Kristin Boese get together with the NSWKBA KITECHICKS crew, and these businesses that support female kiteboarders in New South Wales - Kitepower, Alliance Gear, Zepher Kite Tours, Wind Surf N Snow, Balmoral Boards, Divine Kiting, Kiteburra & Australian Kite Surfari.

Straight from Sydney KB4girls will head over to the KTA Thailand for the second GLOBAL event of the year. Entering a 3 year agreement to support female kiteboarders in Asia, KB4girls and KTA (Kite Tour Asia) first joined forces in last years KTA event on Boracay/Philippines with amazing success and more females in a competition than ever before. This year will see KB4girls founder and 9x World Champion Kristin Boese supporting the female competitors (and these that aspire to become one) during the KTA event and Asian course race championship taking place from March 13 to 18, 2012 in Prandbury/Thailand. The KB4girls part of the event will be a bit different to all other KB4girls GLOBAL events and focus more on competition preparation, coaching, tactics and mental imaging and will take place from the March 13 to 15, with the first day being purely kite clinic and the following days being focused on guiding the female competitors through the competition. Following the goal to create a less intimidating but friendship kind of feel in the competition KB4girls encourages all female competitors to join the KB4girls part of the event but also encourages these girls and women uncertain about competing to come and be part of it all and gain the self-confidence needed to compete in either this or a later competition!

The next event will see KB4girls return to Alameda/San Francisco. After a fabulous event in cooperation with Jane Cormier from Boardsports and Sandy Parker from Kiteopia in 2011 (and pre-KB4girls also in 2010 and 2009) this event will be highly anticipated amongst the girls and women in the Bay Area and all over the West Coast of the USA. With the home base of the event being the Boardsports school and shop there will also be the possibility to travel to other surrounding spots if needed due to wind and weather conditions. Alameda however usually offers nice, consistent winds between 15 and 20 knots during this time of the year as well as a relatively smooth water surface and a shallow water area that will make learning new tricks a breeze for the participants once again. Having been one of the most successful events in 2011 on the charitable side of things (7000 US$ donated to Girls Inc. of Island City) this years goal for the event will be to raise even more funds for these girls that can need our support and we are looking forward to having some of the Girls Inc. girls at the event again! Mark the dates in your calendars girls and register now for the KB4girls Event in Alameda on April 28 and 29, 2012!

KB4girls GLOBAL event number 4 will take place in El Gouna/Egypt, probably THE best shallow, flat and warm water destination with consistent winds within close reach to Europe (and it is close to Asia too!!!). With the support of our El Gouna chapter ambassadors Jenny and Julia and in cooperation with Kiteboarding-Club and El Gouna this event will be packed full with action during day and night and will simply be the perfect kite getaway for every female kiteboarder out there. With the KB4girls event itself going from June 15 to 17, 2012 participants are encouraged to arrive in El Gouna some days before the event (warm up, enjoy the conditions and get used to them so you are ready to improve!) and leave a few days after the event (keep practicing your newly learned moves and learn even more with all the tips you were just given during the clinic). Have you watched Kristin's instructional DVD and wondered where this stunning location is that it was all filmed at... You better register for this event and book your flight to Egypt now to check it out! ;) And by the way, June is the month with the highest wind statistics in El Gouna!

From warm and toasty to a bit more chilly... next up will be the KB4girls GLOBAL event in Lancing/UK. Another very proven one on the KB4girls schedule will be bringing one thing with it for sure.. A LOT OF PARTY time!!! Well known for having a lot of fun and partying until late into the night the girls in the UK also have a lot of other great properties and local ambassadors Andrina Kelly and Jo Mallyon will be doing a fantastic job planning everything for and around the clinic as always. But wait! Did you check out the dates yet? The KB4girls event in Lancing will take place from July 27 to 29, 2012 and will be colliding with the first 3 days of the London 2012 Olympic Games!!! Well, what do you think girls? We will just have to make this our very KB4girls own celebrations of the games with a fun party on the Friday evening (all of you that get a chance to watch the parade live please do so, join us on Saturday morning and tell us all about it!!!) as well as our own mini-Olympics in cooperation with the BKSA… but seriously… we don’t want to tell you too much… just be ready and prepared for a fun weekend and make sure to register soon!

Last, but certainly not least, the 2012 KB4girls Tour will be part of the 3rd Annual DREAM EXTREME fundraising event held in the Hamptons, New York. Dream Extreme has been incredibly successful raising more than $300,000 USD for victims of domestic violence over the past 2 years. In the midst of the KB4girls kiteboarding clinic, there is an exciting day-time Beach Bash with delicious food and an array of adventurous activities (for men, women and children) all to reinforce the importance of a healthy lifestyle. If that isn’t enough, the weekend also includes a festive Dinner Dance Party with a silent auction that continues to draw more than 200 leaders in business, fashion, entertainment and New York society. This unforgettable weekend-experience is geared toward every female that would like to learn to kiteboard or simply improve their skills. The DREAM EXTREME KB4girls event is slated for September 21 - 23, 2012. You don’t want to miss this empowering experience for a worthy cause! For additional info visit www.challengetotriumph.com or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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KB4Girls is proudly supported by its founding sponsors Best Kiteboarding and DaKine as well as Baby-G, Vitamizzer, Elemental Herbs and Tramontana Grafixx