Hey everyone - wind does look like light this morning (blowing about 10 mph now) but lets meet at KHK this morning. Hopefully, it will pick up just a smidge so we can kite! Otherwise, we can decide if we want to go get coffee, go over self launching/landing, or check out the surf.

group picture

Tel Aviv, June 7^th 2013: From June 5 to 7, 2013 the second stop on the 2013 KB4girls GLOBAL event schedule took place in Eilat/Israel. Hosted by the KB4girls Chapter in Israel and ambassadors Shalhevet Segal and Orit Baron (5^th place in last years KB4girls Chapter Challenge) the event brought together 36 girls from all over Israel.

The holy land blessed the participating girls and women with bible like conditions. On 2 of the 3 event days the wind was blowing with a steady 20-23 knots, delivering perfect training conditions and giving the female kiters the chance to learn some new tricks and tips from 9x World Champions Kristin Boese and pro-coach Ofir Belo. Beginner girls were given the chance to take lessons with the “Surf Center Eilat” and enjoyed their learning experience as much as the advanced girls and women.

rider: Tal Navarro

A trip on board the “Sea Shell” as well as evening activities at “Casa de Brazil” and the “Dolphin Reef” did not allow for a dull moment and made sure that the ladies truly enjoyed the entire 3 days of the event.

After a successful and really fun event KB4girls founder and president Kristin Boese said: “Coming to a small country like Israel and seeing so many kite girls getting together is special in its own. Seeing what an incredible job our chapter ambassadors Shalhevet Segal and Orit Baron are doing here is even better. It was a fantastic event with amazing girls and I congratulate our KB4girls Chapter in Israel on achieving so much in their short time of existence.”

Orit Baron, KB4girls ambassador had the following to say: “I remember when I first started to kite and I needed help, there was nobody to give me any. I ended up going to the KB4girls event in Turkey 2 years ago with my friend Shalhevet Segal and we found the help and support we had both been looking for through the foundation. At that moment we knew we had to bring KB4girls to Israel and launched a chapter here.”

Baron continues: “This was the 3^rd event we organized since we started the KB4girls chapter in Israel. By now there is a core group of females joining in for every event and a bunch of new faces joining in each time. The most amazing thing is that more and more girls are getting into sport here and I think the number of female kiters in Israel has almost doubled by now. It is a great experience to be part of this movement.”

rider: Shalhevet Segal

With a raffle amongst the participants and volunteers the event raised 1450 Shekel for First Hug, an Israeli association that rovides hospitalised abandoned babies with human touch, emotional contact, warmth and love.

A big thanks goes to ambassadors Shalhevet Segal & Orit Baron, coach Ofir Belo, photographers Uri Richter, Tomer Avni, Boaz Samorai & Rotem, the Surf Center Eilat, Laguna, Kitestore, Yamit, “Meofefay hayam”, Zazik and BG.

The KB4girls foundation is supported by Best Kiteboarding, DaKine, Tramontana Grafixx, Sportsfeatures.com and Baby-G and strongly encourages other brands to support their cause to empower females through the sport of kiteboarding.

High resolution photos of the 2013 KB4Girls Global Event in Israel are available at:

http://kb4girls.smugmug.com/KB4girlsevents2013/KB4girls-Global-Israel2013-2/29858869_mgktvx

The 2013 KB4girls GLOBAL events schedule reads as follows:

February 15 to 16, 2013 – Mui Ne, Vietnam

June 5 to 6, 2013 – Eilat, Israel

August 17 to 18, 2013 – Lancing, UK

August 24 to 25, 2013 – Cabarete, Dominican Republic

October (date TBC) – Baja, Mexico

About KB4girls

KB4girls stands for “Kite Boarding” 4 girls as well as “Kristin Boese” 4 girls and was established by 9x Kiteboarding World Champion Kristin with the goal to empowers females through the sport of kiteboarding. While KB4girls GLOBAL clinic events give female athletes from around the world the chance to get together for a fun and motivating experience and to push their kiteboarding skills to the next level, the KB4girls CHAPTERs connect females on a more local level through their social events that help build strong female kite communities around the world.

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I'll update on when we will meet up once the weekend gets closer and the wind forecast becomes (slightly) more reliable.  Stay tuned and make sure to book your spot now if you want to attend this event and ride at the kite center, as they will book up very fast!! Hope to see you there this weekend!!!

Wow, what a week we had in the Outer Banks this spring!!!

We arrived on Saturday, May 4, and the wind was already CRANKING!!  The first thing we did, of course, was head to Kite Point for a demo arranged by BEST.  It was amazing!!  We got to try out the GP, TS, Cabo, and Kahoonas, boards... pretty much whatever we wanted!!  There were so many kites out on the beach!!  I was riding an 8 meter most of the afternoon and was powered jusssttt right!

It was really an amazing week, and we kited every day but one!  We even extended an extra day, through Sunday, May 12, for an extra day of awesome wind.  We did downwinders, ate way too much sushi, seafood, and baked goods, and all of the ladies progressed in their riding!  From upwind progress to toeside, boosting, and backrolls, everyone had a great time working on their kiting skills and encouraging each other's progress.

It was a truly beautiful week both on and off the water, and I hope to make the next chapter trip an even bigger success!  Here are some photos of the good times had this week  :)

Thanks Jen for the photos!!!!

Demo Day!

Fancy trying something different?

Location: We will be kiting off the BKSA beach hut on Lancing Beach Green (map here).

Date: Sunday June 30th

Time: 10.00am onwards

Event Requirements: This is an advanced clinic, so riders must be able to ride upwind and self-rescue.

In conjunction with Evolution Boardsports of Lancing, our next chapter event provides the opportunity to come and try out different style kites (C-kites, hybrids and wave-specific kites) and a range of boards to see how they compare to your own. We will have equipment from F-One, RRD, Best, North and Shinn, so come and investigate the opportunities different kit may afford your riding!

The day will begin with a freeride/coaching session - so be sure to bring your own gear along too! Here you will have the opportunity to chat to us both on and off the water, and we will give you hints, tips and give demonstrations to help you work on your latest tricks/riding. Then after a lunch break we will move onto demoing the new kit. Starting with a safety briefing to illustrate safety procedures on the different style bars and kites, before hitting the water again!

We hope to see you there!

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Telephone Number:

Emergency Contact & Number:

Do you cover the minimum requirements (see above)?:

Do you have any limiting conditions that we should be aware of?:

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Are you over 18? (under 18's may participate, we just need to send you a consent form for your parents/guardians to look at and sign!):

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PLEASE NOTE: Liability insurance is required to participate in our events. You can purchase this through the BKSA or the KB4Girls website!

Based on the results of the survey, it looks like Sunday mornings are a good time for us to get together and ride.  So, June riding sessions will be held on Sundays at 10 am.  Come out and ride with us!  Location will depend on wind, so check the blog or our Facebook page for the location that morning.  I'll post the location by 7 am that morning.  We will try to do lots of downwinders in June (also a favorite on the survey).  No wind, we'll go surf, go paddle, or just go grab some coffee.

See you on the water! Susan

Save the date ladies for the afternoon of Saturday the 8th of June.

Audrey Meyer will be hosting KB4girls at her kite school, Dare2Fly, in Agualina Hotel, on Kite Beach.

More details to come, stay tuned and enjoy your kiting!

I'm working on planning our events for the rest of the summer and would love our chapter members' feedback.  If you ride in the Outer Banks (or are likely to in the future), please help us out by telling us when, where, and what type of events work best for you.  To that end, I've created a very short survey (link below) asking those very questions.  Please fill it out when you get a chance.  Any and all ideas are welcome!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9RDXJJM

Hope everyone has enjoyed the SW all week. It looks like a pretty rainy day today. If it clears up by 5 pm, we'll ride at Kitty Hawk Kites (milepost 40). Otherwise, if anyone wants to meet up for a drink, I'm game. We could do Good Winds (upstairs at Kitty Hawk).

OK - so for today's riding session, we'll do a downwinder. Meet at Kitty Hawk Kites (mile post 40 in Waves) at 5. We'll leave a car or two there for the end of the downwinder and then drive south either to Salvo (shorter 3 mile downwinder) or Planet (6 or 8 mile downwinder) depending on people's desires/experience levels. Be there by 5:15 to be part of the downwinder (or get in touch with me to tell us to wait!).

There's been some requests to do a Jockey's Ridge session.  We'll do it in the next couple weeks, but it's not windy there yet so I'm a little worried about the forecast and getting skunked up there today. Debbie (a KB4Girls participant) also rides up at Jockey's often so you should get in touch with her to meet up.

The forecast is looking great for tomorrow's riding session.  And for today (not just the forecast...there are a LOT of whitecaps out there for 9am in the morning).  And for the weekend.  Feel free to post in the comments any suggestions about places you are DYING to ride tomorrow evening (or talk about it on the Facebook page).  Check back tomorrow morning for our final determination posted sometime before 11 am!

KB4girls Cabarete, Dominican Republic chapter - hosted by Laurel Eastman of Laurel Eastman Kiteboarding (LEK) - held another awesomely successful event.

Cabarete has an amazing group of strong, beautiful, talented kiteboarding women.

Molly O'Meara from Cabarete Yoga lead the ladies in a relaxing beach stretch in the shade

The ladies, including 12 Mariposa DR Foundation girls, gear up to kite

Set Up and Safety Actions with LEK's star instructor Santo

Molly and one of our Mariposas getting ready to enter the water

The advanced group coaching session with LEK legend Francis Gil (it was his birthday too!!)

Laurel and friends - waiting for a few more knots of wind

Meghan from Millennium and Jill from Axon Kiteboarding - our BEAUTIFUL resident kite girls at LEK

Ricardo made a gourmet pasta salad with a cantaloupe and basil punch for the ladies

Bianca Bikinis are now officially part of LEK!  We LOVE OUR BIANCA!

Thank you to all the amazing women and girls who participated in KB4girls at LEK.

xx

Laurel

Hey girls,

Have finally managed to find some time to do a little write up on the last Global event.

What can I say, it was an amazing event!

I am so happy how it all came together. The event was held during our Vietnamese New year's festival- Feb 2013, which meant a very busy time for us because of the great winds and high tourist flow.

After I received a phone call from Kristin and the question if it was a good idea for her to come over for the Global event, I was over the moon! Of course, of course of course!!! We only had about 3 weeks to get everything ready but we made it possible. This meant a lot of organizing i.e visa, accommodation, taxi, transportation for Khe Ga, contacting girls and lots of planning! But it all went well. It was a 2 day event which started off with a morning introduction where approx 30 girls appeared up too! And I think we counted about 9 different nationalities: German, Dutch, Swedish, Philippine, Russian, Belgium, Polish, English and American... if not more...

Once the welcome and introduction gathering finished we had a short photo shoot and got ready for the downwinder. For most of the girls it was the first time to do a downwinder from Mui Ne to Phan Thiet. The downwinder was 15 km long and took us about 1,5 - 2 hrs. For extra security we had a Rescue boat with us which encouraged more girls to sign up for the event. For the ones that don't know, there were not many exit or landing spots during the down winder so if things go wrong you better know how to take care of yourself. One girl didn't manage to finish it as she used a friends kite and this kite inverted and became a big mess. It was best for her to return back with the boat.  At the end, twenty nine girls made it to the finish. Overall the downwinder was a great succes.

The second day we had hired a bus and truck for our kite gear. We were heading off to Khe Ga- the lighthouse which was about an hours drive away from Mui Ne. After stopping off and checking out 3 different places we finally decided to rig up. Kristin started with a few hours of coaching, which was very helpful to many. During this time and throughout the afternoon it was all go and lots of kiting fun!

We ended the day with a nice party at the Kinn house. This was an organised bbq not only for KB4girls but also to sponsor 'Long'- go strong' into the KTA event. The party continued to Sankara and Dragon Beach where we partied into the late hours...

It was an amazing event and really hope we can hold another Global event in Mui Ne next year. I think it inspired more girls to join and become a member.

Thank you so much for everyone that made this Global event happen, not only for Kristin for coming over on short notice, but also to Olga and Sasha our camera crew and my lovely boyfriend Jeff that was a great support throughout the event. Of course also a big thank you to all the girls for coming together and joining the event. It wouldn't of been the same without you! Please keep in touch!

It is now low season for us here in Mui Ne, which means lots of rain, so I am ready for a 2 month holiday with lots of kiting fun, even still thinking of visiting Global event in Israel in June....

When it comes August we are ready for another KB4girls even in Mui Ne! I will keep you posted closer to the date!

Take care and hope to see you on the water

liz x

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The wind is looking a little light today, but hopefully will pick up by this evening.  Let's meet at Kitty Hawk Kites at 5 pm today.  Kitty Hawk Kites is at mile post 40 in Waves on the soundside.  It's supposed to be SW so KHK should be a good spot.  And it has air compressors, a grassy lawn for rigging, and shallow water which will make it great to ride if it gets windy.  If it doesn't get windy, we'll head up to Good Winds for a beer.  Look for the pink KB4Girls flag (either on the lawn or on me as a cape).  See you this evening!

We am stoked that we can say that our first KB4girls session in Camber was a success! We had 10 girls included in our coaching and more turning up to say hi and get involved for future sessions, a lot of new faces and a few familiar ones too, but all of them smiling! Everyone was keen to go out and have a good session, so after a quick briefing we got ready to hit the water.

The forecast for Saturday didn’t look that good all week but our worries that there was not going to be enough wind were blown away by a nice 17-24 mph forecast the day before Saturday. But it turned out to be almost too much wind! 7m kites were most popular, everyone learnt something new, whether it was riding upwind, coping with strong winds and high waves, getting back up on the board or the golden rule of kitesurfing: Always bring all your kit, you never know!

The cold and the rain shortened our session a little bit, so after about 2 and a half hours we came in and enjoyed some of Jo’s hot soup to warm us up (thanks Jo!). Lots of new contacts were made and we hope to see the new faces more often in our sessions in the future. As feedback was positive and demand is there, we will certainly organise a few more sessions in Camber over the summer. Thanks for everyone who came and we’re glad that you enjoyed your day!

Tessy

Hope to see you all there and THANK YOU to LEK's Ricardo Gomez for the lovely poster!

It looks like we are going to have awesome wind for our riding session this evening!  Its NE so lets meet at Kite Point (just south of Avon) at 5 pm.  I may be out riding earlier but will be on the beach at 5 pm with a lovely pink KB4Girls flag so come meet me!  Then, we'll head out to ride.  Can't wait to see you all there!

Ladies keep Friday May 17th free for our first official KB4Girls Melbourne social night!

We will be heading to Blue Corn St Kilda, 8pm for burritos and margaritas!

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See you soon :) and all kiters all levels and all kiters friends welcome!!

Also stay posted for our 2013/2014 Calendar coming very soon!

Maui/Hawaii - April 29, 2013: The KB4girls foundation held its 2013 Annual General Meeting on April 25, 2013 as an online conference. Starting of the meeting president Kristin Boese presented the 2012 Annual Report while treasurer Lauri Streaker introduced the 2013 Financial Report. Both reports as well as the minutes of the AGM can be found online and downloaded here!

A total of 14 attendees - comprised of board members, chapter ambassadors and guests - attended this years Annual General Meeting and gave great input. Some innovative ideas could be developed and included in the KB4girls foundations game plan for the 2013 season and beyond.

KB4girls thanks everyone that attended this years AGM for their support and feedback. Due to nature of the world wide structure of the foundation and the challenge of the many different time zones, it was not possible for all chapters to attend the AGM. KB4girls therefore recorded the entire meeting which can be found here!

Downy Starts at 3pm, weather permitting.  Length is approximately 6 miles.

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