My story
From a first glimpse to a way of life
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2002
My first encounter with a kite
I came in contact with kitesurfing in 2002 for the first time, in the Caribbean, watching a couple of riders performing incredible high jumps for that time and I got immediately fascinated by the sport even though then I could not give it a try. My mind was set, I had to learn that!
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2003
A first try, and a lesson
My first chance to give it a try was the next year when I was on vacation in Tunisia: to tell the truth it was a very bad experience, because the 'instructors' teaching me were really poorly trained, probably just basic kiters paying their vacation giving some lesson with their gear. That led me into some dangerous situations from which I fortunately didn't suffer any damage, but I assure you, it was just by pure luck.
I might write a blog post about that story one day as it was a very teaching experience: the good was I learned quite well that you need to have a proper training from professional instructors before set yourself out on a kite.
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2004
When I really learned kitesurfing
In late 2004 I had the chance to learn from a great team of professional on the lake of Garda, North of Italy and my adventure could finally start. (Thank you Xkite for the great time spent in those years with you!)
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2012
From civil engineer to instructor
Since then, even though working as a Civil Engineer with my own company, I started spending more and more time on the board, until I sold my shares of the company to my partners in 2012 and went to Egypt, where I got my certification as IKO instructor in another great kite school, Prokite Academy, managed by what is now a very good friend of mine, Massimiliano Piona, IKO Examiner and one of the most experienced instructors you can ever find.
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Since
...and then a lot of kitesurfing!
Kitesurf brought me literally around the world: I have been kiting in all the five continents in a countless number of spots, meeting incredible new friends. In the meanwhile I spent a considerable amount of hours teaching in kite schools ending up managing also a couple of them. This led me to accumulate "some" experience 😜 in this discipline which still makes me so enthusiastic, after over 15 years of practice.
I am really so passionate about our sport and still eager to learn new tricks, techniques or just learn about any great experience anyone is willing to share. In exchange, I will try to share with anyone who can be interested my knowledge, my adventures, any cool stuff I have come to know about kitesurfing and above all the emotions every experience brought.
