Don’t miss your chance to make a difference in the kite sports world! Voting is now open for the Qatar Airways GKA Awards, organized by the Global Kitesports Association. It’s time for you to cast your vote for your favorite people in the kite industry. These awards recognize excellence in the field and are an…
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GKA Big Air World Championships & Kite Expo Hits Tarifa
Are you ready for kiteboarding’s biggest event? The Global Kitesports Association and GKA Kite World Tour have an incredible line-up running in Tarifa in June with a triple header of headline acts – all part of the same huge event, from 20th June – 06th July! GKA BIG AIR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 20th June – 6th…
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H.E Sheikh Dr. Faleh bin Nasser bin Ali Al Thani, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and H.E. Mr. Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways GCEO and Qatar Tourism Chairman inaugurated the world-class resort Guests can book their stay at the new resort starting from 17 October 2022 by visiting: discoverqatar.qa/FKB Qatar Airways and Qatar Tourism…
Come Join the GKA in Tarifa 2022!
Find out exactly what’s happening when the GKA hits Tarifa in June 2022 to run three huge events in one!
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WKC joins GKA
The World Kiteboarding Championships (WKC) and the Global Kitesports Association (GKA) are now one new unified World Tour. From 2019 onwards, the GKA will represent the professional freestyle kiteboarding and professional wave-kitesurfing. Read here the GKA press release: NEW UNITY IN INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL KITESPORTS – FUTURE OF FREESTYLE COMPETITIONS SECURED UNDER GKA LEADERSHIP The world of professional freestyle kiteboarding competition has seen many changes in the past years, lending to uncertainty within the community as well as an unfavorable perception from the outside. From 2019 onwards, professional freestyle kiteboarding will be officially represented by the Global Kitesports Association (GKA), with the aim of helping this immensely popular discipline regain the trust of community and public alike. After years of separation between professional freestyle kiteboarding and professional wave-kitesurfing, both disciplines are now united in one organisation: the GKA. The GKA is the only organisation authorised by World Sailing to officially hold competitions in all expression disciplines in international kitesports. The new, united format of world championships is called the GKA KITE WORLD TOUR, with distinct event names according to the discipline executed at an event: GKA FREESTYLE WORLD CUP and GKA KITE-SURF WORLD CUP (wave & strapless freestyle). The former tour …
PKRA responds to ‘termination of contract between IKA and PKRA’
Today the Professional Kite Riders Association (PKRA) put out a response to the news of the contract termination with the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA). Here is PKRA’s press release: We can confirm that International Kiteboarding Association (“IKA”) wrote to us last weekend confirming their termination of the agreement between IKA and the Professional Kite Riders Association (“PKRA”). Negotiations for a potential new contract with Virgin Kitesurf World Championships (“VKWC”) were ongoing for many months. VKWC had every intention of replacing the PKRA in a new and improved partnership with IKA. Unfortunately the parties were unable to reach an agreement and the discussions highlighted conflicting interests in the development of the sport, support of the youth, safety, event execution and other topics. Throughout the process the International Sailing Federation (“ISAF”) has been incredibly supportive of the VKWC and our attempts to reach an agreement with IKA. We will now deal direct with ISAF in good faith in the best interests of the sport, its riders, our commercial partners and our supporters. We are looking forward to working with ISAF to develop a successful partnership which will not only enable the VKWC to grow but also will deliver fantastic developments and growth …