In 2009 the Skywalk Gmbh & co. KG advertised a position as “Head of Sales & Marketing FLYSURFER Kiteboarding”. Ernst Novak followed the call and shaped the FLYSURFER world with his team for almost 8 years. He led the innovation-driven German brand...
Max Maeder wins Youth Kite Foil World Championships in Oman! Male Kiteboarding FormulaKite Although the week had started inauspiciously for Max Maeder (SGP), once he’d revved his engines there was no stopping the Flying Fifteen Year Old from Singapore. Maeder won 14...
Reinhart Paelinck – FLYSURFER Kiteboarding R&D 2011-2016 Our former colleague Reinhart Paelinck is a mindful and creative character, a person who inspired my personal thinking. He graduated with a Master in Product Development with his thesis on the conceptual...
Right at the start of the fifth generation of the PEAK, we took the time to collect everything worth knowing from our clients. Preparation is the key to a successful expedition and is very important before your daily session. We give you the chance to know your...
Let’s pretend we have the best-hidden secret in the kite industry! Imagine our beloved logo-icon, the “FS Button” has an important meaning?! Yes, we are talking about an evolution that started exactly 20 years ago. Meet the creator Rolf Rinklin: a...
Laurent Guyot, mostly known as “Lolo” has joined the FLYSURFER family in 2012. Most of you know Lolo from throwing epic kiteloops on snow. The passionate kite-landboarder has many trips with the FLYSURFER crew in his pocket and some great stories to tell. The french...
What Peter starts, he does excessively. After the adventure of being a professional kiter, he joins the development department of skywalk paragliders. Then for years, you could only find him in the air mastering his paragliding skills to perfection. Just a few weeks...
It was a long wait, but Dakhla delivered once again and on the finals day by 4.30pm the wind kicked in, and the remainder of the competition was completed, allowing the riders to finish the event in Dakhla. For the women, both Semi-Finals were completed before the...
The edge-of-the-seat drama of the finals came after 138 athletes—89 men and 49 women from 34 countries and six continents—lined up to fight for the IKA world titles after a two-year break because of the pandemic. It is the biggest kitefoil fleet assembled, courtesy of...
Armin Harich, probably the best-known name in FLYSURFER history, studied physicist, paraglider and canoeist, was the first to recognize the potential of foil kites. Driven by his ideas and the pursuit of adding value for customers, he never stopped believing in the...
