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Regulars024>EDITORIAL032>GALLERy:THESTATEOFTHE ART 038 > MOST WANTED

New shiny bling and ting

040 > SPY NETWORK

KTA round-up, event news and the latest rider transfers

048 > ALL AT SEA

On the surface it might seem like he has the best job in the world, but reality sometimes bites for Captain Gavin

052 > MARK MY WORDS

Shinny's been around a while and takes a personal look back at some key moments in the sport for him

054 > INTRODUCING hot GROMS

Three of the most talented young riders on the planet who will be influencing the way we ride in the future

116 > CAPE TOWN SESSIONS PART ONE –

A TEST TEAM ODYSSEY Cape Town provides the most full-on testing for gear. We went there for five weeks to hit it

148 > MOTOR DRIVE PROJECT

In the age of the new school handle-pass, we salute the classic back mobe

152 > SUBSCRIBE

Give us your wonga and we'll send you some nice mags!

160 > THESE THINGS I KNOW

We finally corner Robby Naish to scribble some things for our anniversary issue!

162 > SKETCHY CLOSE-OUT

A plot line emerges

Features030>FOLLOWINGTHEPASSION SINCE 2002

Kiteworld's founding editor Hugh Miller gets us off the ground and running

061 > THE HIGH TIMES LENS MASTER GALLERIEs

Seven photographers who've kept us dreaming for the past 50 issues, featuring:

062 > CHRISTIAN BLACK 070 > JOHN BILDERBACK 078 > TRACY KRAFT 084 > MANU MOREL 090 > TOBY BROMWICH 096 > YDWER VAN DER HEIDE 098 > PASCAL BOULGAKOW 102 > WE WERE THE GUINEA PIGS OF THE SPORT

Jason Furness has been buzzing from kitesurfing since 1997

108 > ADRENALINE AND FREEDOM

An interview with Ruben Lenten

FROMADECADEINKITEBOARDINGHIGHTIMES

UNFORGETTABLEMOMENTS

RUBENLENTEN,JASONFURNESS

ANDTHESPORT'S BEST

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cover > Just as we make it over our 50th finish line, Ben Thouard becomes the first contributing photographer to get back-toback covers on KW since Christian Black's string of four that he put together on issue numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7! The rider on this cover is Bertrand Fleury, a man heavily mixed up with the early two-line Maui wake-style crew that can now be found in Indo, still powerfully tearing it up. More on him, the pad he built and the current lifestyle he leads next issue photo > Ben Thouard contents > The 50 that made the grade all photos > Lyssa Rutherford y # 50

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