26 Jul '11
Icelandic Challenge
It is amazing to see around the world the challenges that kiters set themselves and the huge potential for achievement that power kiting can give people. On that note, Flexifoil are delighted to announce our sponsorship of the 2012 Icelandic Challenge.

This incredible feat will see a team of three wheelchair-bound athletes attempting to cross one of Europes largest glaciers - Vatnajokull in Iceland - by Snow Kite in Spring 2012. This crossing, the first of its kind will involve:

  • Travelling 300km by snow kite
  • Navigating seven live volcanoes and wide expanses of crevasse fields
  • Surviving   arctic temperatures down to minus 40 degrees centigrade
  • Tackling wind speeds of up to 50km/h

The athletes – Sean Rose (2x winter paralympian, world champion water skier and X Games bronze medallist) Tim Farr (Vancouver 2010 paralympian) and Ben Hooper (member GB disabled ski team development squad) will be unable to use their wheelchairs for the duration of the expedition and so will be joined by a team of three able bodied buddies, including Flexifoil Team Rider Rob Snuggs. Their success or failure will depend on meticulous preparation, grim determination and a significant dose of good luck.

We're tremendously excited to be working with the guys and being a part of their inspirational story, a story we think is well worth sharing. So we're calling on all kite fans out there to get behind the challenge and support the amazing ambitions of these riders. So...

GET INVOLVED


Show your support, spread the word. Checkout their showreel video below, then head over to their website and if you're on Facebook hit the like button.

If you want to follow this story closer, then use any of the links to the right to keep up to date.

Close Region Selector

Tell Us What You Think

Customer feedback is hugely important to us, we want to know what you think about everything about us, good or bad. If you have a comment about our products, our merchandise, our website or anything else then please let us know. If there's more we can do, then let us know. You can keep your comment anonymous, or you can request that we get back to you just include your name and email address and tick the box below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Tell Flexifoil
Name (Optional) Email (Optional) Spam Question = What is the y e a r? (Required) Would you like use to respond?
Close Region Selector

Close Region Selector

This year we celebrate our 40th year designing and manufacturing premium quality kitesports equipment.

As ever, we remain 100% committed to expert product design, exceptional quality of manufacturing, superior product performance, first-class customer satisfaction, excellent aftersales care and products delivered at the most competitive prices in the world.

Flexifoil is available through more than five hundred retail stores and kite schools spanning 64 countries across all continents.

97% of every kite, board and accessory is in stock at Flexifoil, including a vast range of spare parts for kites going back many years.

We are already busily working on innovative designs and new fabrics for our 2013 and 2014 collections to ensure we continue to bring you the most up-to-date designs and technology for the ultimate kitesports experience.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every Flexifoil customer for flying our kites and riding our boards. It is you who has
made this 40 year journey possible.

Here's to the next 40 years.

Thank you for choosing Flexifoil.

Anthony Van Dort
Owner

Website Design Poole by VIVID.