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Freestyle coaching with Patrick Rebstock, professional kiteboarder, 21-22 November 2009, Estuary Windsports Area, 10am both days. Underground rider based in Santa Barbara, California. http://www.patrickrebstock.com/. Funded by the CWA and free to CWA memb...
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A team of club members comprising Glen, Dan, Lindsay, Andrew and Russell spent a couple of hours last Saturday morning, moving rocks and rubble and mixing concrete to repair the damage and holes which have appeared in our Lyttelton ramp since its const...
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CANCELLED till 2010
Website: http://www.kiteboardingnationals.co.nz...
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TVNZ Close Up spoke to both Stever Gurney and fellow New Zealanders Craig Hansen. See http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/adventurer-stever-gurney-speaks-2985913...
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September 09, 2009 05:30pm TWO Melbourne men have become the first people in the world to kite surf across Bass Strait. Friends Ben Morrison-Jack and James Weight completed the 260km journey when they landed at Apollo Bay in Victoria's southwest early t...
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Wanakite is an annual snowkite freeride that has been running since ~2000, and in 2009 it reached new height's as more and more people are getting tuned in to the potential of the terrain around Wanaka. This year was quite possibly the best yet, with plen...
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A good number of people turned up at the Estuary on Sunday to clean up our part of the world, something the club has been participating in for several years now. It was a beautiful day, no wind or water in the estuary to distract us, and apart from the us...
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About 40 people turned up to hear President Russel Mathieson report on CWA activities over the past year, and plans ahead, before the existing committee members were re-elected, including four newbies: Treasurer Lindsay Sisson, Women's Kite Rep Kim Bunt, ...
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Presidents report, Treasurers report, vote on raising subscription fees and changes to the rules/constitution were carried unanimously, new committee elected: President Russell, Treasurer Di, Secretary Andrea...
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We arrived very late Thursday night, the updated forecast for Friday was 120km/hr winds NW, the snow from Tues...was rained on :-( We headed up to Snowfarm early, about 10ish....the snow was thin, & the wind was strong 20-30knots....I wasn't that...
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Perseverance at the Snowfarm paid off on the last day with 10-15knot NW winds under bluebird sunny skies. Perfect conditions, awesome snow, epic snowkiting. Read more about it on kiteforum.co.nz.
My GPS snowki...
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A number of CWA members turned out for the annual 'Clean up the World' on Sunday 7 Sept 2008, and battled biting easterly wind to remove bags and bags of rubbish from Scott Park to Sandy Point. Thanks team - yo...
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The wind was 40 knots NW, then went 50 knots SW, and wasn't conducive to kiting, so the crew retreated to a round of indoor archery to improve hand-eye coordination. Meanwhile, the windsurfers were loving the w...
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The inaugural NZ Kite Wave Nationals were held in Taranaki Nov 14-16, Tim and John were there. View a movie clip of the Kite Wave Nationals in Taranaki...
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Nov 13-15 2008 Lake Clearwater pics......
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Gareth Woods and Annie Crombie won a great event with good close racing in nearly ideal conditions with the wind-gods co-operating. A good warm up for round 2 at Dunedin next weekend (13/14 December). Read more...
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The NE wind increased progressively from Saturday through Sunday, with enough cross-onshore angle and swell to make for some reasonable wave riding. The final final was run late Sunday pm in abou...
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A small crew of Christchurch kiters spent Xmas-New Year near Kumara, in search of wind and waves. After several days of sunshine and light SW seabreezes the wind went north - north west, and delivered some epic, if challenging conditions. Not for the fain...
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Saturday started clear and calm, but a light easterly breeze built progressively into a 25+ knot full blown nor-easter. The competition started at 2.00pm with an expression session on the incoming tide, followe...
