The Kiteboarder Magazine August 2010

The August 2010 Issue of TKB features:

*13,000 Miles of Kitesurfing: 15 Countries over 145 Days in a VW Van

*From the Beginning: An interview with Wainman Hawaii’s Franz Olry

*Breaking the Light Wind Barrier

*Demystifying Kite Design

*Instructional: Nuclear Grab, Unhooking in Waves, Hitting a Slider

*Naish’s Sam Light and Mystic’s Claire Lutz Profiled

*Workbench: Repair or Replace Your Wetsuit?

TKB Podcast with Chris Cousins from Eclipse Kiteboarding

Eclipse Kiteboarding was founded in 2006 and experience a few years of rapid growth. 2009 has marked a lot of changes for the company, with the company being the subject of a number of forum threads over the past few months.

For those of you who follow the online forums, you know there's been a recent shakeup at Eclipse Kiteboarding. Things might be changing, but Eclipse isn't going away. For this podcast from The Kiteboarder Magazine, Chris Cousins, founder and owner of Eclipse calls in to set the record straight about the current state of Eclipse Kiteboarding.Listen in as Chris talks about the status of the Eclipse Bulletproof Warranty, the development of the new Eclipse Surge C-Kite, what her thinks of online forums, who to contact if you've had issues with Eclipse Kites, and the problems they've had with their control system.