Kristin Boese, 9 times World Kitesurfing Champion and Rolex Sailor of the Year nominee, is on a mission. Kristin wants to give as many girls as she can the chance to get out on the water enjoying the fun and excitement on kiteboarding and in so doing give females a platform in the sport and make them a stronger force in a male dominated sport. That’s quite a big task to set for herself.
Kristin launched KB4girls in 2009 and at the Women’s Forum at the recent ISAF Conference in Athens Greece gave on up-date on how she is getting on. So far KB4girls has taken 400 girls kiteboarding in Australia, USA, Egypt, Spain, Germany, Sweden and the UK. The youngest was age 9 the oldest 70. Five participants have gone on to achieve championship podium places.
Kristin has more plans for the future to grow KB4girls and get yet more girls out on the water.
Here is the video she played at the ISAF forum
Also take a look at Kristin's KB4girls website
Source: The 2010 ISAF Conferemce blog
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