The Kite Club Maui will be supporting the event as a local organizer to ensure the girls have everything they need, just as with last year’s clinic with Kristin Boese on Maui. Gretta Kruesi will also be on the team for the KB4girls Maui clinic and will help promote the event as well as co-instruct and support Kristin during the event, which will be an important part of the camp.

But this event has even more to offer! To support the female athletes as much as possible and to offer the participants an amazing program and every reason to make their way over to Hawaii, KB4girls has teamed up with the Maui based water women program “Butterfly Effect”.

The “Butterfly Effect” organizes downwind runs for female athletes of all watersports and will be using the KB4girls clinic as a platform for their kiteboarding participants to prepare for their event in July.

Tatiana Howard, founder of the Butterfly Effect says: “I am really excited to have KB4girls involved. I think the clinic Kristin is running will be perfect to get the girls ready and confident for our Butterfly Effect in July. I would encourage all kite girls to take part in the KB4girls clinic, learn new tips and tricks, and soak up all the advice. You will be able to enjoy The 4th Annual Butterfly Effect 2010 even more after this intensive training because you will be shredding down the north shore of Maui with new skills.”

Due to the limited space on Maui’s beaches this KB4girls event can only accommodate 20 participants in order to guarantee the safety of all riders. All those interested are urgent to book as soon as possible. Registration is open on www.kb4girls.com/schedule/usa-maui.html and will close on April 1. As usual the $30 registration fee will be donated to the Surfrider Foundation and towards the protection of our oceans and beaches.

Brandon’s riding has really caught the attention of the kiting community over the past couple of years. This past year he took second place overall at the Triple S with his powerful wake style tricks and smooth rail riding. He also placed second overall at the King of the Great Lakes in Muskegon, Michigan.

“Brandon is an amazing rider and ambassador for kiteboarding. He has a very stylish and aggressive riding style that matches Liquid Force perfectly. Plus he is one of the most friendly and approachable riders out there. We are happy to have him in the Liquid Force family” says Gary Siskar, Liquid Force’s Brand Manager for Kiteboarding.

For 2010, Brandon plans on continuing to push the envelope in flat-water kiteboarding and most recently snow kiting. His upcoming events include the Liquid Force Snow Kite Tour in Utah and coaching this season at Real Kiteboarding in Waves, North Carolina. His steady work ethic and determination should lead to some innovative tricks and make Brandon a force to watch in the upcoming year.

Since 2002, the Kitesurf Trophy created in Germany offers riders a highly professional platform to compete. The sanctioning of the IKA (International Kiteboarding Association) encouraged us to share this know-how with the European kiteboarding community by organizing and promoting the first ever European continental championship. Therefore we are happy to share the next season with some of the most professional events in Europe:

- Kitesurf Tour Europe, Podersdorf (Austria) May 6th – 9th
o Price Money: 5.000€ Freestyle; 2.500€ Racing
- Kiteboard Open, Noordwijk (Netherlands) May 22nd -24th
o Price Money: 5.000€ Freestyle; 2.500€ Racing
- KiteRace WorldCup Westerland (Germany) June 22nd- 27th
o Price Money: 20.000€ Freestyle; 10.000€ Racing
- Kitesurf Tour Europe, Lake Silvaplana (Switzerland) July 2nd – 4th
o Price Money: 5.000€ Freestyle; 2.500€ Racing
- Kitesurf Tour Europe, Swinoujscie (Poland) August 25th-29th
o Price Money: 5.000€ Freestyle; 2.500€ Racing

This championship series is the correspondent tour to the Kite Tour Asia (KTA) and is encouraging other continental series for a regional and global growing of the competing community. Kitesurf Tour Europe means:
* for the kiteboarding community: More riding with less travel but reasonable price money and media presence. More international events to promote the sport also on national level
* for the sponsors: The series offers more kiteboarding with less costs but more media presence due to the newly established national identification of professional athletes with their home countries and TV-spectators

The Championship is designed to host the best riders of Europe and is “international open”.
Register for the competition after the jump

Source: Kitesurf Tour Europe

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