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016 > EDITORIAL 022 > GALLERY: FREE STYLE 034 > MOST WANTED Hands up if you're a closet fold-up bike rider! 040 > SPY NETWORK Discreet phone calls in the dead of night, underground meetings in the white house, Hadlow sets the early season pace taking out the Red Bull Kite Punks event and we throw some global kite news in for good measure 056 > READERS’GALLERY Stars in your eyes 060 > CHERYL MEETS... The next Generation Cheryl relives a few close calls 064 > MARK MY WORDS Mark Shinn on how to choose the right twin-tip for you 066 > INTRODUCING Mohammed Hamaini We meet a young Moroccan ripper 110 > ALL THE GEAR, NO IDEA? Removing the fog surrounding riding stance and heel-side carves 112 > TURBULENT TRIALS Six trainer kites fit for your mother 124 > MOTOR DRIVE Ace photographer and instructor Toby Bromwich pulls out a stash of sequences to guide you through the logical steps to stomping the mobe 5 134 > RIDER UNCOVERED Sky Solbach gets a hefty excess baggage charge

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068 > IN TRIM: A FELIX PIVEC PROFILE When you can back your big words up with actions, people listen. Jeff Pfeffer uncovers this Australian animal’s simple but highlyeffective approach to riding waves with kites 080 > BETTER DAYS IN THE DIRTY SOUTH Peter Trow escorts Herve Boure, Charles Deleau and Manu Morel on the popular pilgrimage for the wind-addicted to Baja 092 > ROCK THE KASBAH The test team visited Morocco for this issue’s kit reviews and discovered a welcoming country with more kiting potential than you ever thought possible and so many waves that even the King has a point break in his back garden 096 > SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION We dissect the character of six very different kites 106 > Size Matters “Size doesn't matter...it's what you do with it that counts.” Fact or fiction? We apply theory to four surfboards

Cover>Felix Pivec, in your face Photo>Jeff Pfeffer

Contents>All you need. Punta San Carlos, Baja Photo>Manu Morel

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