Kiteworld Magazine
About this organization
Kiteworld Magazine was the original international kitesurfing journal. It launched in 2002, published for two decades and closed with a twentieth-anniversary final issue in 2022. The archive is still free to read online. Across those twenty years the magazine covered industry news, gear development, travel features and riding technique, which in practice means it documented the sport's move from a niche with homemade equipment to an Olympic discipline while it was happening. That archive is why the title still matters to a reader today. If you want to know what a kite from 2009 was actually like to fly, or how a spot was written about before it became busy, the back issues are the record, and nobody has to pay to see them.
Primary market: International
Why this profile is here
A closed magazine with a free archive is more useful than an active one behind a paywall, at least when you are researching something old. Kiteworld stays in the Trusted Network for that reason, listed in the past tense so nobody writes to a dead editorial address.
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What does Kiteworld Magazine cover?
The topics recorded on this profile: gear reviews, interviews, technique and travel. Its primary market is listed as International. Its listed reach is international.
Who maintains this profile?
For now the KitesurfingOfficial editors, who built the entry from public sources. Anyone who works at Kiteworld Magazine can claim it and take the details over, and anyone at all can suggest a correction.
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History
History
The story behind Kiteworld Magazine
- Founded
- 2002
Founded in 2002 as the original international kitesurfing journal, Kiteworld Magazine ran for two decades and closed with its twentieth-anniversary final issue in 2022. Its own site has since gone offline, so the final issue is now only readable in the Internet Archive.
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