Collegiate Kiteboarding Association
Presents: CKA Tour Stop #4
(December 2008)
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Collegiate Kiteboarding Association Tour stop #4
When and where:
When: January 10-11th
Where: Lauderdale Beachside Hotel
4660 North Ocean Drive
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Collegiate Kiteboarding Association tour stop #4 poster
Details:
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Automatic Slims
15 W Las Olas Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(954) 522-8585
www.automatic-slims.com
For Hotel reservations Email Kevin Oneal at faukiteboarding@gmail.com |
Tour stop #4 will be at Damon's beach right in front of the Lauderdale Beachside Hotel. Competition will consist of a Freestyle, Strapless, and Boarder-X competition. There will be a collegiate division and a non-collegiate division. The finalists from each division will then compete against each other for overall champion. Registration will be $25/rider at 10am riders meeting at 11am. If you miss registration you will not be able to compete. The after party will be at Automatic Slims and will begin at 11pm after the contest Saturday.
Collegiate Kiteboarding Association tour stop #2 poster
Some History:
CKA Stop #3 was hosted by Lynn University and Superfly Kiteboarding
This event was surely shaping up to be the next benchmark in the CKA tour. We had multiple alternative plans in case of no wind ranging from SUP's, wakeboarding, floating sliders, relay races, giveaways, jetski's, and possibly a floating slider park.
Red Bull will be on hand as always with some of the best surprises the CKA has seen yet, be there or wish you were.
CKA Stop #2 was hosted by Eckerd College and Triton Kiteboarding. Initial plans were to host a wakestyle event in the flats of Saint Petersburg but things were not quite what was expected.
Midday Saturday a cold front passed through and riders convened on Saint Pete Beach in front of the Undertow Beach Bar, wind kicked up and we held the first Boarder-X of the season.
After multiple kite tangles and several different changes in conditions several riders using a variety of skimboards, surfboards, and ultralitewind twin tips stood on the podium.
1st Kevin O'neil (FAU)
2nd Ben Sampson (UCF)
3rd Justice Bentz (UNF)
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Collegiate Kiteboarding Association tour stop #3 poster |
Initial forecasts called for the wind to shift to the N in the morning meaning that we would have to move locations as Saint Pete Beach would be offshore. We headed to the south skyway reststop but unfortunately it died by mid morning. Riders decided all was not lost and packed up to hit the new Tampa Cable Park - McCormick's. McCormick's is one of three regular footed cables in the world and was a solid playground to entertain the masses. Thanks to everyone who came out and see you all in Delray!!
CKA Stop #1 was hosted by UNF and High Life Kiteboarding. Event went down with a bang boasting 43 Riders from 10 Schools
Results:
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Mens Freestyle
1st Alex Fox (UCF)
2nd Kevin O'Neil (FAU)
3rd Greg Norman (UM)
Mens Surf
1st Matt Sexton (Eckerd)
2nd Matt (UNF)
3rd Dave Scott (UNF)
Womens Overall
Charlotte Schou (Eckerd) |
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