KiteXPO 2004 was a great success with more than 200 people attending the event! The first day of the event, Friday April 02, we had light wind, however fortunately enough to test out those 16M and larger kites. On Saturday, we had no wind however there was plenty of other exciting things to keep everyone happy: Cabrinha's RECON demonstration, Handle Pass simulator, raffle, etc. We gave away more than $2000 of KiteBoarding equipment: Many Thanks to BEST Kiteboarding for the grand prize of a brand new 16M BEST Kite as well as the other vendors: F-One, Cabrinha, Litewave KiteBoarding, Murrays, Kitesurfari, Caution, Slingshot, and XtremeBigAir.com. Saturday night's F-One/Kitesurf.com and XtremeBigAir.com's sponsored beach bonfire/BBQ party was also a smashing success.
See you all at KiteXPO 2005.

From Cabrinha's:

THE CABRINHA CREW, TWISTED ARMS, THE DREAM, A BON FIRE, AND A DEAD PIG MADE FOR A GREAT WINDLESS EVENT AT THE PISMO BEACH KITE EXPO!

XtremeBigAir.com hosts “windless but successful” 2^nd annual Kite EXPO. 

April 2-4, Pismo Beach, California.  The Cabrinha Crew descended on Pismo Beach in full force offering demonstrations and clinics to a large group of happy kite riders.  Cabrinha’s focus for 2004 is to bring consumers “Innovations that Matter”.  Following up on their motto, Kevin Delaney, Todd Greaux, and Kent Marinkovic pulled out all the stops to display Cabrinha’s distinct innovations that differentiate Cabrinha products from all others. 

A unique display where by a bungee was attached to the Cabrinha Power Lock Bar helped to show consumers the advantages of this system over older designs.  Additionally, the display made it easy to see just how simple the Recon Safety system functions.  Consumers tested the products until there hearts were content.  Two lucky riders were fortunate enough to win Power Lock bars in the prize raffle.  Tons of Recon T’s were given away and several S. Cal girls were seen cruising the beach with newly acquired Cabrinha Tattoo’s.

Kent Marinkovic took to the beach in winds ranging from 5-9 mph to demonstrate the Recon relaunch on the 17 meter Co2 and the Nitro 14.  He launched the Recon equipped kites over 25 times in the super light wind right on the beach!  Kent also provided inside tips of how to get the most from Recon Equipped kites.  According to Kent, “Recon is not the answer for all of your problems, but it sure takes care of most of them.  Let’s just say for example that you don’t drop your kite, you never mess up, and you don’t like the Power Lock…who cares, just ignore them  and you still have the exact same kite that placed 1^st and 2^nd overall in PKRA World Tour.” 

So Cal’s Cabrinha Representative, Kevin Delaney was on hand to provide information and lend support to two of Cabrinha’s newest California retailers, Kite Surfari and Solutions.  Both shops were in attendance to provide tons of support and information to consumers.  Kevin set up a hanging “handle pass” simulator on the beach where riders had the opportunity to take clinics from Cabrinha riders on the basics of completing a handle pass.  By the end of the weekend, no less than 7-10 riders were consistently making passes on the bar and were readying themselves for the water.  Sore arms, but happy faces were the norm…Look out S. Cal.!

Saturday night, Pismo Beach:  A big bon fire, The DREAM DVD, gallons of beer, and a dead Pig made for great fun.  75 – 100 kite riders tuned out for the party and were treated to Vari’s new Dream DVD, a great fire, good food and drink.  The Jury’s in, and has decided that Vari’s DVD raises the bar for all other kiteboarding DVD’s.  Riders were placing orders from Kinsley, Kitesurfari, and Solutions for the DVD that will be in shops later this week.  The night ended at around midnight and moved off to parts unknown.      

All in all, not much for wind, but a big thanks go out to Kinsley Wong from XtremBigAir.com for putting on a great show!   The Cabrinha Crew will be back next year.