Kitesoul Magazine #18 English Edition

Kitefoiling Around SA rdiniA
Enrico Giordano and Luca Marcis flying around Sardinia
In early June 2017, the riders Enrico Giordano and Luca Marcis will be the protagonists
of an ambitious project that combines kitesurfing, adventure, endurance and technology.
It's called Kitefoiling Around Sardinia and is about circumnavigating Sardinia in stages on
a hydrofoil for a total of 1.000 kilometres of navigation. A challenge that takes kitesurfing
and in particular hydrofoiling to a new dimension.
As speed picks up, the
board gets off the water and
you enter a new riding dimension,
stylish, super fast,
planing between the sky
and the sea and all around
it’s silence, only the sound
of the wind pushing the kite
and whistling in your ears.
Kitesurfing with the hydrofoil
is now exploded all over
the world and after an initial
scepticism from the riders'
tribe, it is gradually infecting
everyone, Italians included.
A wave of new emotions and
an enlargement of navigation
possibilities that cannot
leave indifferent. The manufacturers
of equipment are
the ones who helped spread
this discipline, after years of
testings, finally they came
to offer materials and technologies
within everyone's
reach, both in terms of costs
and especially in terms of