{"id":12195,"date":"2023-01-15T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=12195"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:15:35","slug":"20-years-kitesurfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/media\/20-years-kitesurfing\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years &#8220;Pro&#8221; :)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s so wild and absolutely mind-boggling to realise that this year it&#8217;s 20 years since I turned &#8220;pro&#8221; !!! Two decades of living of my greatest passion. I can&#8217;t put into words how grateful I am to my main sponsor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duotonesports.com\/kiteboarding\/\" title=\"Duotone Kiteboarding\">Duotone Kiteboarding<\/a>, who has believed in and supported me from my very early days in the sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started in the World Cup, the field of women was mainly self-supported with many of them not even having a kite sponsor. So many brands failed to recognise the importance of women in the sport. Duotone (formerly under a different brand name) had my back and still has&#8230; 20 years later!!! Even more amazing given that I quit competitions in 2007 !!! Thus, 16 years of Freerider career \u2014 and counting!!<br><br>This interview in issue #151 of Europe&#8217;s leading kiteboarding magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiteboarding.eu\" title=\"KITEBOARDING.EU\">KITEBOARDING.EU<\/a> is exactly about those last 20 years. About my journey in the industry. My amazing 20-year career in kiteboarding (there are not many other riders who have &#8220;survived&#8221; this long), and some of my most memorable experiences during my crazy trips to the most remote corners on Earth \ud83d\ude42<br><br>20 years that above all taught me that you can realise your dreams if you commit 100% to following your heart and are willing to give 1000% and never give up no matter what!!!<br><br>Check it out! <br><br>Lots of love, believe in yourself &amp; live your dreams,<br>Gabi xx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d5c8b6&amp;d=kiteboarding_151&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;u=kiteboardingmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so wild and absolutely mind-boggling to realise that this year it&#8217;s 20 years since I turned &#8220;pro&#8221; !!! Two decades of living of my greatest passion. I can&#8217;t put into words how grateful I am to my main sponsor Duotone Kiteboarding, who has believed in and supported me from my very early days in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2021,2020,1129,483,48,1642,2121],"class_list":["post-12195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-duotone","tag-duotone-kiteboarding","tag-freerider","tag-interview","tag-kite-pro-career","tag-kiteboarding-eu","tag-pro-career"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12206,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions\/12206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}