Congrats on your foundation! We are so stoked to be a partner! What are your goals with the foundation? How will you achieve them?
Thanks! We are stoked to be online now for two weeks with our brand new website: www.willemhooftfoundation.com. Our goal is to make sit-kitesurfing accessible for people with a physical disability and ultimately make this a Paralympic sport.
What we are focusing on short term is making the sport well known, providing training and ensuring pro and safe sit-kite gear is available. Our partnership with Slingshot and the Wind Voyager allows me to travel the globe looking for exciting, challenging locations to sit-kitesurf and push the limits of the sport. Our footage has global reach and has made a huge difference already.
Secondly, good quality training needs to become available. To do this locally, we aim to train kitesurf instructors to also teach sit-kiting safely. To have a global reach we will be shooting video tutorials on how to learn sit-kiting wherever you are.
Last but not least, future surfers need sit-kite equipment to be available globally at an affordable price. Today, each board is custom made, costly and takes months to produce. With the help of Slingshot we can give these daring surfers the opportunity to explore their passion and freedom.