Ep. 289: Long Distance Kitesurfing - Bowen Dwelle

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Here's one we haven't covered yet. Bowen Dwelle joins the ASP to talk about Long Distance Exploratory Kitesurfing, Foil Boarding, Flow, the long distance experience, athletic journeys, the nature of (what is) adventure, athletics and intuition, and the new normal in adventure sports.

Bowen's Adventure Portfolio:

I am a lifelong outdoors sports enthusiast (skateboarding, snowboarding, rock climbing, sailing, windsurfing, surfing, SUP, open water swimming, trail running, MTB, kitesurfing, paragliding) and have in the last ten years become a passionate and now semi-professional kitesurfer. While most people think of kitesurfing for the freestyle (tricks) and perhaps also for wave riding, there are other disciplines that are gaining traction and progressing the sport: course racing, foil board kiting and my specialty: long distance.

We have developed techniques to allow truly long distance travel – 100+ miles in a day and 1000+ miles in a single journey -- by kite, and we have done several trips on the coast of Brazil and elsewhere using these techniques.

I was fortunate enough to be one of the principal athletes in a film production that we just finished about the long distance experience, exploring the northern coast of Brazil by kite. We shot last summer (2016) and just finished editing and it's now screening on Canal OFF in Brazil. In the meantime I was in the Philippines in March 2017 shooting another similar expedition and will be back in Brazil in September 2017 shooting an entire series of long distance exploratory kiting, from Atins to the mouth of the Amazon and up the river to Santarem!

Watch the documentary: https://vimeo.com/220552327

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0:00.0	The top racers on their race-specific hydrofoil boards and race kites are doing 40 knots now,
0:10.6	which is almost fits.
0:12.5	That's actually 50 miles an hour, which is way faster than I want to go.
0:20.5	Episode 289, long-distance kite surfing with Bowen Dwelling. is way faster than I want to go.
0:25.1	Episode 289, long-distance kite surfing with Bowen Dwellie.
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0:46.0	You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 tech.
0:50.2	We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there.
0:58.7	Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville.
1:02.0	Hi friends. Thank you again for listening to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast.
1:07.1	I have a really fun one for you today. We have not covered this sport much on the Adventure Sports podcast yet. We did one show on this, boy, almost two years ago. And so I'm excited to hit it today because it's so fresh. Today we're talking about kite surfing. And we're talking about kite surfing with someone who has quite a lot of experience and even taking kite surfing to new levels.
1:31.3	I'm excited to hear his stories and all about the sport.
1:34.8	Bowen Dwelley, welcome to the program.
1:37.0	Thanks, Kurt.
1:37.6	Great to be here.
1:38.7	Man, it's our pleasure.
1:40.0	I have long enjoyed watching this sport, and I've never done it, but every time I'm at the
1:46.4	coast, or even on YouTube or something, I see people doing this kite surfing, and I'm just
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