Kite School Revolutionaries

As the inventors of REAL Kiteboarding’s kite camp, a destination-based learn-to-kite experience, Matt Nuzzo and Trip Forman have made kiting accessible to the masses since 2001. They made it easy enough even for Matt Lauer from the Today Show to learn how to kiteboard, and their school has taught the sport to over 32,000 others as well. Before REAL Kiteboarding, many instructors sent newbies on the water by themselves, sometimes with a waterproof walkie-talkie, if they were lucky. “We created ‘on-the-fly’ coaching to use personal watercraft as a teaching tool so instructors can be with students 100 percent of the time and make the experience as fun and as safe as possible,“ says Nuzzo. The approach earned REAL Outside magazine’s “Top 10 Adventure Camps in the World” distinction in 2004. Ever since, they’ve been helping turn an extreme sport into a mainstream activity.

– Kiteboarding Magazine May 2009 Ten Year Anniversary Issue

I wish I was a piping plover!

In my next life I want to come back as a piping plover. They now have more beach access than humans in Cape Cod, Long Island and Cape Hatteras.

Seriously though it's getting ridiculous. The latest fight over kiting access is in Cape Cod where some genius came to the conclusion that large kites mimic predatory birds and scare the piping plovers thereby screwing up their mating cycle.

Does anyone know a good bird therapist so the thousands of tax paying kiteboarders could kite without worrying about the sex drive of these damn birds!

Sure they're cute but they have ruthless lobbyists!