Chris Moore was one of my kiteboarding trainers in Providenciales, TK. While hanging out he shared quite a few stories. A few years ago, after I learned how to

Chris Moore was one of my kiteboarding trainers in Providenciales, TK. While hanging out he shared quite a few stories. A few years ago, after I learned how to stay upwind in TK I flew to Maui. I flew Cabrinha and Naish kites only to realize that both were born in Maui. That prompted me to dig more into the Kiteboarding history, how things started, what everyone was doing around the world and how they intersected to merge into what is now kiteboarding. It was fascinating, I wish I had documented it .. I'm glad this article came out, although I think it would be worth a deeper look and more details about how the hacking took place - the story of how a modern sport gets born. It's amazing how things that were happening across the world crossed paths and merged into the modern kiteboarding just before the Internet became a thing. I think kiteboarding was very much a hacking exercise. Couldn't see the article mentioning this but here's a bit of youtube history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtZzMMYO_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtZzMMYO_I