The Dominican Republic Cabarete event, has been has being a classic PKRA World Tour event over the last 7 years. This great location know as the Caribbean Kiteboarding Mecca, has hosted many years the highest standard Kiteboarding event in the world where the absolute best in the world have competed. Unfortunately in 2009 the economic [...]
The Professional Kiteboard Riders Association (PKRA) and the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) have announced today to enter a cooperation with immediate effect. The first sanctioned PKRA event under this new cooperation will be the PKRA KiteMasters Portimao in Portugal. As of this writing, a sanctioning and cooperation agreement has been signed by both parties, following [...]
Wrap up video fra første PKRA stop i 2009.
En film av første PKRA stopp fra Mondial du vent – Franrike. For å lese rapporten fra PKRA Franrike gå til http://www.kite.no/2009/04/13/pkra-frankrike-09/
Her er en liten oppdatering hva som skjer nede i Franrike akkurat nå. Day 1 – PKRA 2009 FRANCE – Mondial Du Vent The kick off event for the Official 2009 PKRA World Tour is in the beautiful city of Leucate, situated at the southwestern coast of France. The weather started out cold and wet [...]
PKRA News: PKRA’s Statement Regarding Unsuccessful IKA Agreement Hello, Based on the last response from the IKA and after consulting advice from our legal council the PKRA has decided to decline any further involvement from this mediation process. Therefore the PKRA will not be seeking IKA or ISAF sanctioning for our events nor will the [...]
“We regret to announce, that the PKRA has decided to go its own way instead of cooperating with IKA, KPWT and other organizers towards the unification of competition kiteboarding. The PKRA had stated in an earlier press release, that they recognize the IKA as governing body for kiteboarding…” Les hele saken her: Internationalkiteboarding.org
The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) and the Professional Kiteboard Riders Association (PKRA) came to an agreement regarding the issues raised by PKRA prior to joining the IKA. It will be noted that IKA was sanctioned by the International Sailing Federation as the worldwide governing body of kiteboarding. Les hele saken her: Internationalkiteboarding.org
The Professional Kiteboard Riders Association (PKRA) and the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) finally agreed to meet in January to iron out issues and matters which the PKRA raised with the ISAF-sanctioned body. In a correspondence sent by IKA Executive Secretary Markus Schwendtner to PKRA Media Director Paul Caswell, the IKA agreed to meet in Berlin, [...]
Det har i det siste skjedd mye på konkurranse fronten. Kiting skal nå få en godkjent internasjonal konkurranse. “For the first time in history, the 2009 kiteboarding world championship title will be sanctioned by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). This became possible by approving the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) as official class association during the [...]
