“It’s called kite boarding,” he said. “Once you try it, once you get that high, you want it every day, every day, every day. It’s pure adrenaline.”
Good job OKC! We are finally branching out into more adventure themed activities.
After reading this article, I don’t really feel prepared to buy a kite and run out to the lake but I do feel energized. We should focus on having more of these excursions that are just off the beaten path.
Kite boarding addicts get fix at Lake Hefner
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
By Heide Brandes
On an unusually warm April afternoon, with the wind blowing both angrily and calm as it does at Lake Hefner, Morocco native and Oklahoma City resident Ali Abdelali lounged in a camp chair to watch wet-suit clad men attached to kites speed across the rocky waves.
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“It’s called kite boarding,” he said. “Once you try it, once you get that high, you want it every day, every day, every day. It’s pure adrenaline.”
And on every day the wind decides to bluster across the lake, the kite boarders are paying homage, sometimes sneaking out of downtown offices to exchange business suits for wet suits in order to ride the wind for an hour or so.
As one of the fastest-growing extreme hobbies to come to the city, kite boarding is taking hold, but is still exotic and risky and terribly hard to learn. With interest sailing high, more and more Oklahomans are trying their hand at kite boarding at Lake Hefner, and some are even finding enthusiasts who offer up lessons.
For those wanting to learn the sport, lessons and skill are hard to come by.
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Here’s a great video of Kiteboarders out at Lake Hener:
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