The planet’s best kiteboarders are pumped and ready for action as the competition window for the Qatar Airways GKA Big Air Kite World Championships in Tarifa, Spain, has been opened.

The reigning Qatar Airways GKA Big Air Kite World Champions are to return Tarifa’s Balneario beach the second straight year to defend their crowns in the biggest kiteboarding event of the season.

The epic event will feature three adrenaline-pumping Big Air disciplines—Twin-Tip, Surfboard and Hydrofoil. Friday, 26 May, marks the opening of the three-week holding period as the GKA team scopes out the best conditions for the breathtaking action.

Women’s Twin-Tip title holder, 18-year-old Mikaili Sol (USA), has already opened her account and kept the defence on her crown on track with a stunning win in the first round at the Lords of Tram GKA Big Air Kite World Cup in France.

Spain’s Liam Whaley, a past freestyle world champion, is seeded top in the Twin-Tip class after he won at Lords of Tram in Barcarès at the beginning of April with a standout display.

Whaley turned the tables to defeat Italy’s Andrea Principi, 18, in the final at Lords of Tram. Principi had won the coveted Twin-Tip world title at the maiden Qatar Airways GKA Big Air Kite World Championships in Tarifa last year, when he overhauled Whaley in the final.

Source: https://www.gkakiteworldtour.com/stage-set-for-big-air-world-title-fight-in-tarifa/