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Cover>This has surely got to end in pain. I love this shot! It’s the kind of shot you can look at for hours because you can’t figure out how he got there, or how he can possibly get out of this situation in one piece. I would be stoked if I got a shot like this. Davey Blair filling John Bilderback’s view finder in Indonesia - SHINN Photo>John Bilderback

Contents>What’s considered pure fantasy to many is the daily realityof world champions Illustration>Phil Stanhope

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CONTENTS#30 016 > EDITORIAL 022 > GALLERY: PEAK PERFORMANCE 034 > MOST WANTED 040 > SPY NETWORK Hadlow wraps up a fourth world title and we deliver the world news 054 > READERS’GALLERY Guest editor Aaron Hadlow picks the cream of the crop 058 > MAYBE TOMORROW He’s travelled the world and Miguel Willis starts off a new column looking at some of the lesser known, but nevertheless epic spots, he’s come across. He kicks-off this issue by getting his paws dirty in Yemen 062 > MARK MY WORDS After one of the biggest wave events ever staged, Mark comments on the PKRA event in Chile 064 > INTRODUCING JAN STOCKMAN A hard carver from Belgium 066 > INTRODUCING Dreu Beavis This Margaret River surfer’s credibility in wave kiting is climbing almost as fast as his attack on the lip 118 > TURBULENT TRIALS Wind meters, screwing tools and a blow up device called Joe 122 > ALL THE GEAR, NO IDEA? The onshore wind launch 126 > KGB Bible A reading from the chapter on grabbed unhooked front rolls 130 > MOTOR DRIVE - INTERMEDIATE Hop to toe-side and then fang out a wall of spray with a feisty heel-side carve 132 > MOTOR DRIVE - PROJECT: BLIND JUDGE 3 Aaron Hadlow breaks down some of the first handle-pass moves that lead to the blind judge 3 138 > REVIEWS A hands-free waterproof action camera, a couple of the hottest recently released DVDs and a book on wind prediction to keep the brain boggled this Christmas 140 > RESORT REPORT Rip it up in Hatteras and Egypt 150 > RIDER UNCOVERED Hadlow and Shinn break out their tools of the trade

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068 > YOUR MOVES ARE MINE A tale of two world champions 074 > RUBBING SHOULDERS Mark and Aaron remember some of the characters they competed against and comment on a few of the turning points in kiteboarding’s history 082 > FREEDOM UNFILTERED How it was, is and always will be 090 > CROUCH, HOLD AND ENGAGE Bilderback’s barrel-hungry disciples hit Indo and get covered up more times than the truth in politics 100 > Scandinavia Behaviour With more excellent conditions than you might imagine, Sweden is home to some of the most up-for-it kiteboarders around 107 > THE REAL OCEAN CRUISER Anyone fancy a jolly on a new KiteCat? 110 > A HANDY FOUR PACK Going under the Kiteworld test team’s scrutiny this issue are the Slingshot Rev, Flexifoil Atom 08, Airush Flow and the Naish Alliance 114 > ‘08 ON A PLATE (PART TWO) Another heads up on the gear you’ll be riding next year

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