June-July 2020

inception. In fact, we’ve already produced a Silver medal
in Kiteboard Twin Tip Race in the last youth Olympics in
2018 where the young Christian Tio from Boracay bagged
the medal and bested other top rank athletes in the globe.
Now that the Olympics format has changed to foil board
racing, we’re introducing this new class in our competition
this year, and hopefully will give rise to other young
aspiring Filipino athletes to level up their game and
compete in foil board racing. Who knows, we may soon
get the chance to win for gold in the future in other
international kitesurfing events, most especially in the
Olympics, now that we’re exposing our athletes in this
field” Mr. Ortiz said.
In the Bulalacao leg of this year’s PKA tour, The women’s
freestyle event was won by Germany’s Kathrin Bogwardt,
a long time participant of the PKA tour who put on a
display of her large variety of tricks and heat strategy,
Kathrin also went on to win the Women’s hangtime
division. Men’s freestyle went to returning PKA competitor
Abdoul Moutaouakil from Morocco displaying a huge
improvement in skill since his last appearance in the tour
two years ago.
In the men’s hangtime division, Ken Nacor blew the
competition
In fact, we’ve already
produced a Silver medal in
Kiteboard Twin Tip Race
in the last youth Olympics
in 2018 where the young
Christian Tio from Boracay
bagged the medal.
away, sending
one huge jump
after another one,
often soaring
more than 150m
through the air
before landing.
The foil board
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