Still spaces available for the Global Event with Kristin here in El Gouna in June. Fundraising $100 ($80 for KB4Girls members) for Hope Village in Cairo, to support them with their amazing work with young street mothers and the women‘s shelter. More information on Hope Village can be found on their website: www.egyhopevillage.com
The advanced event is open to female kiteboarders who can at least ride independantly in both directions and preferably upwind, although it‘s possible to walk upwind here in the waist deep warm blue lagoons (no wetsuits required). So far we have girls registered from New Zealand, Egypt, the UK, Israel, Poland, Germany and the USA with levels ranging from those who just want to improve their riding to those wanting to learn tricks like kiteloops and railey to blind.
Event host and home of the El Gouna KB4Girls chapter, Kiteboarding Club and Buzzha Beach are providing discounts on courses and storage during the two weeks around the event. During the event participants will be offered a choice of two low budget healthy meal options at lunch each day of the clinic. In addition every week visiting and local girl kiters regularly get together on Tuesday‘s Italian evening and the following morning there‘s a free girl event (KBCforGirlz) riding together on the water to achieve their goals with the KBC photographer there to capture the action – not surprisingly the girl scene here is growing very fast: www.Kiteboarding-Club.com. Will get this properly in the calendar for you too.
The detailed program will be planned by Kristin with KBC and coaches Daga and Andrina in the days immediately before the clinic, based around the wind and tide forecast and the evening program will ensure everyone has a great time. Outside of the event days, there will be a discounted rate for participants with Surfvibes (www.surfvibes.com) for a girl downwinder to Palma Resort, which would be awesome and in the event of a nowind day after the clinic is over participants can take advantage of free snorkeling on the KBC house reef and discounted rates with SUP Red Sea (www.supredsea.com) during their stay.
No wind here is no problem as there is so much else to do in el Gouna. Aside from relaxing,how about horse riding, SUP lagoon trips, Segway tours, golf, tennis, scuba diving, a camel ride, shopping and much more. In the evenings there‘s always something going on in El Gouna. The town is compact so, whether on foot, by bus, tok tok, taxi or shuttle boat,getting around is cheap and easy.
El Gouna is totally supporting the event and has made available some incredible offers in four Hotels closest to the event and these are extended to all comers, not just to participants, so friends and family can take advantage too. Not surprisingly the rooms are being taken up fast – so book soon to get the best deal. The offer covers a stay of up to 2 weeks as long as it includes the nights of 15th, 16th and 17th June. For those of you who don‘t know El Gouna already, it‘s Egypt‘s premier kiteboarding destination with 12km of beachfront, fringing the Red Sea and many more kilometers of interconnecting man made lagoons around town, it‘s known as the Venice of the Red Sea. It‘s much more than just a beach destination, it‘s a completely self contained, private and secure. It even has a brand new university annex from Berlin, international and national schools, a fantastic hospital, many restaurants to choose from, beautiful marinas and much more – in short it‘s unique! It is just a 35 minute taxi ride north of Hurghada Airport, which can be reached from most European countries.
Our last event in 2010 was awesome and I look forward to riding with as many of you as possible again this June.
Jenny C
on Tuesday, 08 May 2012
in Lancing / United Kingdom
Kicking off at 2.30pm, for £25 you get 3 hours of taster sessions (SUPing, wakeboarding and windsurfing), as well as a BBQ, indo-board demo's, and a fun competition at the end to win some awesome prizes! (Including kite lessons with the BKA!)
