Bulabog Beach on Boracay Island, Philippines will host a KB4Girls PRO clinic alongside KTA’s (Kiteboard Tour Asia) tour stop

High resolution pictures of the KB4girls tour are available here: http://www.kb4girls.com/press/press-area/press-pictures.html)!

TAMPA/LONDON/MANILA, February 3rd,  2011: The KTA (Kiteboard Tour Asia) and the KB4girls foundation enter a 3 year agreement that sees the KTA tour host a KB4girls event at one of their tour venues each year. Main goal of the cooperation is to promote female kiteboarding in Asia and motivate more Asian girls and women to take up kiteboarding on a competitive level.

The first event as part of the cooperation will be held at the KTA tour stop on Boracay Island, Philippines and will take place from March 8th-10th, 2011.

Boracay is a famous kiteboarding destination and many international riders visit the island on a regular basis for its perfect shallow water and consistent wind conditions. With many female kiters on the island and the surrounding Asian countries Boracay will be the perfect place and time not only to kick off the 2011 KB4girls tour but also the cooperation with the KTA.

As a KB4girls PRO event this camp will focus on motivating and preparing females riders for international competitions while maintaining the KB4girls vision to build supportive local female kiting communities. Females of all ages and ability levels are welcome to join. The minimum requirements for participants are the ability to go upwind and to kite independently.

Girls will receive direct on-the-water and on-the-sidelines, coaching from 9 time world champion Kristin Boese. The girls will also be encouraging each other throughout the competition, raising an overall confidence level while learning tips and tactics for success.

Kiting in Asia is picking up pace, with the KTA tour stops providing a way to measure ones skills, more riders are working harder and improving fast! Neil Godbold, organizer of the KTA, says , “Getting more girls involved in the competition scene in Asia is a brilliant idea and one of the reasons we started the KTA.  I think KB4girls is a wonderful foundation and we are proud to be working with them. We look forward to our training partnership with KB4girls. The KTA Philippines is a great event and one that riders from across the region and further have been looking forward to again this year, now it just got even better."


Kristin Boese, founder of KB4girls, remarks "I am especially excited about our event on Boracay/Philippines, not only because it is such a beautiful place and perfect kite location but also because this event is going to be our first ever KB4girls event in Asia! It will give all the female kiters there a chance to join our camps too. I am also very thrilled about KB4girls' cooperation with the KTA as I think both the KTA and our foundation are following many of the same goals and ideals like supporting the local communities and riders and working together for a healthy growth of our sport."

Anny Barlow, local organizer and rider, says: “This union between the KTA and KB4girls is perfect. Many of the female riders in Boracay can’t wait for this experience. When we catch-up I can already see it’s motivating more girls to join the competition, knowing they will have a coach and support structure near by. And personally, I can’t wait to see the community structure that will evolve between us fellow female kiters on our little island.”

The event will be held at Bulabog Beach in front of the 7Stones Resort that is supporting and hosting both the KTA and KB4girls event. The KB4girls training area will be set up outside of Hangin Kite School at Greenyards Funboard and Neilpryde Test Center. The KB4girls foundation and their worldwide tour is sponsored by Best Kiteboarding, DaKine and Kiehl’s.

Registration for this event will be open at http://www.kbgirls.org until March 1st, 2011 and will be limited to 30 girls and women. A donation fee of 30$ will be asked for that will aid the KB4girls foundation to continue their projects.


The KB4Girls tour schedule 2011 reads as follows:
Philippines, March 8 - 10, 2011
Australia/QLD, April 19 - 22, 2011
Turkey, May 10 - 12, 2011
USA/CA, May 28 - 29, 2011
Netherlands, June 17 - 18, 2011
United Kingdom, June 23 - 26, 2011
Germany, July 8 - 10, 2011
USA/OR, July 16 , 2011
USA/NY, September 16-18, 2011
Australia/WA, December 16 - 18, 2011

About KB4girls
KB4girls is a non-profit worldwide clinic tour for female kiteboarders that was launched in November 2009 by Kristin Boese. While the tour gives female athletes from around the world the chance to get together for a fun time together it also motivates them to push their kiteboarding skills to the next level and possibly start to compete in kiteboarding.

Another goal of the KB4girls events is to support the Surfrider Foundation Europe and the protection of the oceans and beaches. While registration fees are being donated to the Foundation educational materials are being supplied in return and given out to all participating girls, teaching them about their precious playgrounds and how to possibly help to protect them.


About KTA
The KTA is Asia’s international kiteboard competition organization.  Sanctioned by the IKA, kiteboarding’s world governing body, riders receive world-ranking points as they work towards being crowned the official Asian champion.

In it’s second season the KTA is holding 6 tour stops and a number of one off Open Events to check out more Asian locations and get more riders involved.  Tour stops include Turkey, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, with finals being held in Korea, April 2011.  Follow the events, see the results, watch the report video’s and find out about what’s next at http://www.kiteboardtour.asia/




Contact:
info@KB4Girls.com   
http://www.KB4Girls.org
neil@kiteboardtour.asia
http://www.kiteboardtour.asia

Twitter: KB4Girls
Facebook : KB4Girls
KTA - Kiteboard Tour Asia

Together with our new KB4girls website and the girls forum we also introduce the KB4girls blog pages! From now on you will not only be able to follow our projects and programs better but you can also follow one of our 3 female kiters that report about their everyday kiteboarding-life.

Follow the KB4girls blog, Jessica's beginner blog, Jenny's blog for fierce female kiters or Kristin's blogposts from the life of a professional kite girl! Let us know your thoughts, comment on the blog posts and share them with your friends! :) 

TAMPA/LONDON/BERLIN, December, 30^th 2010: The KB4Girls 2010 World Tour concluded the year having made tremendous strides to further female recognition in the sport of kiteboarding around the world. Led by German sports model and 9X World Champion Kristin Boese, the tour has done an amazing job by promoting the sport and spreading awareness.  

Boese said, "The year 2010 has been absolutely incredible for KB4girls and I never dared to dream of such an amazing success in our first year.” She goes on to say: “We experienced so much support from the local communities and from the many volunteers putting in their time and efforts. Each event turned into a community effort and success. To see the huge smiles in the faces of the participating girls whenever they learned something new or got to meet new friends was extremely motivational on top of that."

Benchmarks of the year included:

• - more than 400 women and girls involved in the “free of charge” events
  - 12 worldwide events on four continents (3xAustralia, 4xUnited States, Egypt, Spain, Germany, Sweden, UK)
  - co-operations with eight magazines and more than 20 online partners worldwide formed
  - 20 new girls introduced to the sport
  - motivation, self-confidence and courage of hundreds of female kiteboarders around the world furthered
  - US$155,000 raised for victims of domestic violence through the DREAM EXTREME fundraiser in New York
  - awareness about ocean and beach pollution raised in cooperation with Surfrider Foundation Europe  
  - 8 KB4girls participants celebrated on podiums in national and international competitions

The 8 successful KB4girls participants and their victories read as follows:

• Nicole Puxbaum (2nd place Austrian national championships) 
• Heike Wycisk (1st place German national championships) 
• Holly Kennedy (1st place High Jump PKRA Fuerteventura)
• Michalina Laskowska (3rd place Polish national championships)
• Shannon Ducker (2nd place Australian national championships)
• Michelle England (3rd place Australian national championships)
• Stephanie Voss (3rd place German national racing championships)
• Melissa Rotwald (1st place KST Germany Dahme)

Boese says: "All this would not have been possible without the support of every single local volunteer or supporter and I would like to send out a big thanks to everyone. It was, however, thanks to our tour sponsors and partners that I was even able to launch KB4girls this past year and therefore I would like to specifically thank our 2010 tour sponsors Best Kiteboarding, Kiehl's and DaKine and also our partners Surfrider Foundation Europe, SportsFeatures.com, PKRA, IKO, Tramontana Grafixx and Ideenwerft."

With the support of the amazing KB4girls media partners the tour was also able to gain more recognition for female kiteboarding and it has been the following magazine and online partners that have supported KB4girls and their goals: SBC magazine, Kiteworld magazine, Kite Surfmagazine, 3S boards & skis magazine, Kite Holland, Kiteboarder mag Australia, Kitespain.com, SurferToday.com, Kiteboarding.eu, hanglos.nl, kitemovement.com, explorergirls.com, kiteforum.com, surfertoday.com, seabreeze.com.au, riders.dk, funsporting.de, windfinder.com, womensportreport.com, surferworld.it, sport2.de, boost-kiteboarding.com, Kitemovement.com, Riders.de, Womensportreport.com, flickamag.com, oase.com, Ladies on Board and many more.

With an hugely successful year to look back at KB4girls is in the process of preparing an even more exciting program for 2011 and female kiteboarders around the world, and those that want to become one, can get excited already! The KB4girls 2011 tour schedule as well as a new web presence will go online on February 1^st and with events booking out quickly it is suggested to secure spots in the clinics early on. More exciting news to be released very soon!

KB4girls would like to wish everyone a happy new year and all the very best for 2011.

Looking back at the KB4girls tour 2010:    

Augusta, WA Australia / January 8-10

Melbourne, VIC Australia / February 9-10

Kahului, HI USA / April 9-11

El Gouna, Egypt / May 18-20

St Pere Pescador, Spain / May 28-30

San Francisco, CA, USA / June 19-20

Fischland, Germany / August 20-22

Malmo, Sweden / August 28-29

Hood River, OR, USA / September 4

Montauk, NY, USA / September 24-26

Lancing, UK / October 8-10

Brighton, QLD Australia / December 3-4

You participated in one of the KB4girls events this year? Or you are one of the many female kiters that would love to see some pictures of girls kiting rather than always just look at the guys? Then this is the right Christmas present to yourself or to your female kite friends! :)

In order to be able to raise funds to cover the fees it cost to set up KB4girls as a 501(c)3 non-profit-association we have put together this super fun and female kiteboarding calendar for you. This way you can get to enjoy a full 12 month of female kiting action and atmosphere while helping us to achieve our goal and support our cause!

If you participated in one of our events this year there even is a pretty big chance you made it into the KB4girls 2011 calendar. If you would like to participate in one of our future events the KB4girls calendar should give you a good idea what our events are all about and make the days to your first event with us much shorter! ;)

This is a high quality calendar in DinA4 format and costs 20 Euros plus shipping cost (Europe wide 4.50 Euros, Rest of the World 8.00 Euros per delivery. You can also get the calender express shipped for an additional 5.50 Euro express fee.)

To order your KB4girls calendar click here!

We very much appreciate your support and are saying thanks in advance!

Kristin and the girls

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Kristin Boese honored to be the first kiteboarder nominated for the ISAF ROLEX World Sailor of the year award

TAMPA/LONDON/BERLIN, November, 11th 2010: In combination with her nomination for the ISAF ROLEX World Sailor of the Year award KB4girls founder Kristin Boese had been invited to join the ISAF Womens Forum meeting, taking place during the annual ISAF conference, to introduce her global kiteboarding project.

The presentation of the KB4girls worldwide training program for women and girls was very well received by the ISAF Womens Forum. The participants gave back significant feedback and support for the project.

Sarah Kenny from the ISAF development and youth committee says: "It was so exciting to see the work Kristin is doing to help introduce girls to kiteboarding. We know we need to keep sailing relevant to youth and women and KB4Girls is a fantastic initiative to help do that."

Kristin Boese, founder of the KB4girls says: "First of all it was amazing for me to see the great number of women that are actively involved in the ISAF and are doing such amazing work. To be invited to join the forum and to present the KB4girls concept to them was very special to me. I was received so openly and warmly and getting such nice feedback from the women in the forum meant a lot to me. It has furthered my motivation even more to keep pushing the program forward as hard as I can. I would like to especially thank Fiona Kidd, chairwomen of the forum, for her kind invitation and for being so supportive along the way."

On November 9th, just 2 days after the women's forum met, Kristin Boese was presented together with 3 other female and 4 male nominees at the ISAF ROLEX World Sailor of the Year award at the stunning "Zappeion" building in Athens/Greece.

Congratulations go out to Windsurfer Blanca Manchon (ESP) and Laser Sailor Tom Slingsby (AUS) for winning the 2010 ISAF ROLEX world sailors of the year award and their amazing achievements in the sailing world.

Boese said about the award ceremony: "This has certainly been one of the most special days in my life and the award ceremony was absolutely fabulous! I feel extremely honored to have been nominated for the ISAF ROLEX World Sailor of the Year Award especially since it was the first time a kiteboarder was amongst the nominees. Thus making it an honor for kiteboarding at the same time and proving that it has been fully accepted by the ISAF family. My congratulations and deepest respect go to Blanka and Tom."

Being asked what her thoughts on kiteboarding as a part of sailing are, Boese says: "I think taking the amazing sport of sailing with its long history and traditions and to throw the very young sport of kiteboarding into the mix is a great innovative step and I am very glad that the ISAF accepted kiteboarding as one of their sailboat classes almost 2 years ago. While kiteboarding and sailing might seem very different at first they really have so much in common and compliment each other in a way that can create even more excitement and diversity. I can only thank the ISAF for taking this step."


KB4girls tour schedule 2010:

Augusta, WA Australia / January 8-10, 2010

Melbourne, VIC Australia / February 9-10, 2010

Kahului, HI USA / April 9-11, 2010

El Gouna, Egypt / May 18-20, 2010

St. Pere Pescador, Spain / May 28-30, 2010

San Francisco, CA, USA / June 19-20, 2010

Fischland, Germany / August 20-22, 2010

Malmo, Sweden / August 28-29, 2010

Hood River, OR, USA / September 4, 2010

Montauk, NY, USA / September 24-26, 2010

Lancing, UK / October 8-10, 2010

Brighton, QLD Australia / December 3-4, 2010