Youth With Passion: Keahi De Aboitiz

Submitted by: Kiteboarding Stuff

Lately, young kiteboarders have emerged and proved to everybody that age definitely does not matter. Here is one of them, indeed making waves in the whole kiteboarding world.

Keahi de Aboitiz is a kiter born in Noosa, Queensland, Australia on December 15, 1992. Since a young age, he loved the ocean and in his hometown, he started surfing when he was five years old. He started kiteboarding when he was 11 years old in 2003. His father taught the water sport in his kiteboarding school too so it was just natural for Keahi to take it up.

In 2004, Keahi discovered that Pete Cabrinha, surfer and kiteboarder, was his fourth cousin. It was when his family went on a trip to Hawaii.

By 2006, Cabrinha s Australian rep gave an invite to Keahi to compete in the 2006 Freestyle Nationals. He was 13 years old then but he won the third place in the Under 18 category. Since then, Cabrinha has been sponsoring him.

Then in 2009, when he was 16 years old, he won his first open National Freestyle title. His other achievements include: in 2010, winning second place in the Noosa Festival of surfing, Stand Up Paddling (SUP) division, winning first place in the Malfunction Surf Festival, SUP division. In 2011, he got the first perfect 10 on the Standup World Tour at Huntington Beach and won the trials, beating Kai Lenny. He was also third place on the Australian Titles, SUP division.

In 2011, in the PKRA Waves and Freestyle Kiteboarding World Tour in Morocco, he was first place in the Wave Men s division.

Still in 2011, he also won first place in the Wave Men s division of the PKRA Tour in Lanzarote. Keahi earned back to back wins by being the KSP World Tour champion in both 2012 and 2013 as well. Furthermore, he was the Kite Surf Pro champion in 2013. At the Sunset Beach Pro in Oahu, Hawaii this year, he was fourth place and in the Wave division of the Dakhla Kiteboard World Cup in Morocco this year, he won first place.

His favorite locations are Indonesia, Mauritius and Hawaii. For the future, he aims to win a world title and explore uncrowded waves. This is what urged him to kite after all in his hometown, Noosa, surfing became so congested.

Aside from kitesurfing, as mentioned he also was engaged in surfing. He is into paragliding and he got into stand up paddling when he was 16 years old.

Seriously, there is no stopping Keahi! His natural love and passion for the sport is indeed key for his success, not to mention his great skills and talents. Now he is regarded as one of the top athletes in the water sports he is involved in. And he is not yet done in pushing his boundaries!

Nevertheless, it is nice to know that youngsters have engaged themselves in sensible and rewarding things like sports, instead of anything that is bad out there.

Let us look forward to Keahi winning his world title soon!

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