The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board reported that famous German kiteboarding champion, Kristin Boese will participate in the inaugural BVI Kite Jam held on March 1-5, 2010.
Kristin is well known for bringing kite boarding to the masses with media presence in major global magazines. Kristin has also inspired many female kiters to join the sport, and continues to do so.
Boese was born in Potsdam, East Germany in 1977, where she grew up. Considered as one of the best students in her school from year one Kristin soon showed interest in various sports and ended up playing semi-professional handball (a very popular team sport in Europe) under a strict eastern German trainer for 12 years. When the wall was broke down Kristin saw the opportunity to break free and, while she first started a commercial education in Berlin in 1997, she soon discovered that sports was her passion. In 1998, Boese began both windsurfing and mountain biking, however her love for the water was much stronger. Kristin attended a windsurfing instructor license course two years later and began working as an instructor during her summer vacations while studying at the university in Berlin.
In 2002, Kristin spotted her first kiteboarder along the beach of the windsurf centre Kristin used to work for; he caught her attention straight away and the rest is history. A few months later, she left the big city behind and was on her way to Fuerteventura, Spain to work at a kiteboarding and windsurfing centre and to perfect kiteboarding herself. Since then, her kiteboarding career has taken a massive leap. She won the German Kitesurfing Champion title in the following two years and secured 4th place in the Professional Kiteboard Riders Association (PKRA) world ranking in 2003. Big success was close, and she claimed Vice World Kiteboarding Champion in 2004, and then cinched her first PKRA Freestyle World Kiteboarding Champion title in 2005. Many titles in all different disciplines have followed since.
BVI Kite Jam will be a five-day sports event targeted for building awareness of the destination to the international kiteboarding community and will highlight BVI as a Mecca for this rapidly growing sport. "Having a pro kiteboarding champion like Kristin Boese join this event certainly puts us on the map in the world on kiteboarding," said Myron Walwyn, Chairman of the BVI Tourist Board. "We are very excited and look forward to welcome Kristin and other kiteboarding competitors to the British Virgin Islands and helping them discover why Natures Little Secrets is the new centre of the kiteboarding world."
The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board reported that famous German kiteboarding champion, Kristin Boese will participate in the inaugural BVI Kite Jam held on March 1-5, 2010.
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