Kiteboarding

in Extreme sports photography by Jamie HIBBERT — March 24, 2009 at 9:29 pm | 2 comments

Gwithian Kiteboarders

I decided to travel over to Gwithian and walk across the sand to Godrevy. There was a great wind blowing on-shore and a messy blown out swell.  About half way into my walk, towards the Godrevy end I noticed these two kiteboarders kitting up and prepping their gear.

I watched them launch the traction kites and then off they went, carving up the inner shore line. I would guess they were comfortably moving in excess of 20 knots across the shore line, throwing up water behind them on sharp carves and pulling aerial tricks. I was fascinating watching them, challenging to capture them on a photograph.

A lot of the tricks they pulled looked huge, but lost against the sky – no sense of scale! The carves were quick and the light was low and into my face, so I had to get in a better position with the sun, looking for a sense of scale as well.

As you can see it all came together for this photo. No big airs, but great depth and scale as well as a good amount of spray coming from the board.