If you’re just starting out in kiteboarding, you will probably have a hard time imagining that kitesurfing can be a peaceful and almost meditative experience. Believe it or not, you’ll eventually you’ll soon gain control and learn to ride like a zen master.<\/p>\n
To me wave-kiting\u00a0puts me right into that flow state. Just by being out there in \u2018the big blue\u2019 I feel a connection with the waves, the wind and the ocean in a way that goes beyond the physical. Writing can also give me that feeling of flow \u2013 admittedly not always, it has to be said – but when I\u2019m in flow I have the opposite to writer’s block. It’s pretty great really.<\/p>\n
In this article in the leading German kite magazine Kiteboarding, I reflect on the art of getting completely and wonderfully lost in kitesurfing and making friends with flow and silence…<\/strong><\/p>\n You can read the feature right here! Simply scroll down and hit “Download PDF”!<\/p>\n Also, if German isn’t your mother tongue, here’s the English<\/strong> version in Kiteworld<\/a> :). For the\u00a0Spanish <\/a><\/strong>article in Surf a Vela click here<\/a>,<\/a><\/strong> and for Italian <\/strong>in Kitesoul ITA here.<\/a><\/p>\n Enjoy the silence whilst reading, If you’re just starting out in kiteboarding, you will probably have a hard time imagining that kitesurfing can be a peaceful and almost meditative experience. Believe it or not, you’ll eventually you’ll soon gain control and learn to ride like a zen master. To me wave-kiting\u00a0puts me right into that flow state. Just by being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1611,1642,1511,1922,1921,1892,611,42],"class_list":["post-10780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various","tag-flow","tag-kiteboarding-eu","tag-meditation","tag-mihaly-csikszentmihaly","tag-psychology","tag-silence","tag-surf","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nNamaste
\nGabi x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"