The life of a kitesurf-professional – my first article as part of my column \u2018Kite & the Planet\u2019 in the German kiteboarding magazine kiteboarding.de. Kite & the Planet is a series of features around my exciting life in the pro-scene in which I write about trips, event reports, interviews and more!<\/p>\n
In this issue: \u2018…and what do you do for living\u2019, a perfectly normal question in everyday life, correct? Pretty much every time that I answer that question with \u201c I\u2019m a kitesurf-professional\u2019 people\u2019s eyes get big, they look at me like \u2018…mh, what is she on about\u2019 and I usually get a reply around these lines \u201cWOW, so you get paid to go kitesurfing, you\u2019re so lucky\u201d. <\/p>\n
YES, I definitely consider myself lucky, however, luck plays only a tiny fraction in the how-to-become-a-kitepro-and-live-your-dreams-calculation, the other parts are sheer determination, persistency, talent, and commitment. I wrote this article for all the people who truly believe that kitesurf-professionals get paid to simply go kitesurfing, just like any top-model gets picked up on the street and directly brought to the catwalks of Paris, Milano and New York… <\/p>\n
Raising and examining the most common clich\u00e9s around the life of a pro, not everything in this article should be taken deadly serious !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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