The Kiteboarder Magazine

About this organization

The Kiteboarder Magazine, usually shortened to Tkb, is a US kiteboarding title built on long-form writing and large-format photography, covering the people, culture, travel and art of the sport. It has historically run four issues a year, and there are more than fifty past issues including travel guides, buyer's guides and instructional editions. Its current status is genuinely unclear, and the profile says so rather than picking a side. A 2023 listing on thekite-boarder.com announced that TheKiteBoarder.com would stop publishing and that the website and magazine assets were for sale. At the same time a separate editorial presence at thekiteboarder.blog still describes Tkb as an active long-form magazine. Either way the back catalogue is the reason to look it up. Photo essays and long rider profiles make up most of it, at a length almost nothing else in the sport prints.

Primary market: North America

Why this profile is here

We would rather publish a contradiction than resolve one we cannot verify, so both sources are named and the reader decides. Tkb is in the Trusted Network for its archive, which is the deepest body of long-form kiteboarding writing in the United States. If somebody at the magazine claims the profile, the status question gets a definitive answer.

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