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Wind Chasers - The Untold Origins of Kitesurfing

Country
Germany
Project status
In development
wind chasers

How did Kitesurfing evolve from a daredevil experiment into a global sports phenomenon? In the 60s a few fearless pioneers pushed the limits of physics to ride the wind - a dream no one but them believed in.
This film reveals the fragile beginnings of a movement that would one day reshape coastlines and lives, growing into a billion-dollar industry and an Olympic discipline. Exclusive archive and intimate interviews with these pioneers shows kitesurfing’s evolution through the eyes of those who lived it, visionaries who sacrificed everything. A rip-roaring tale of human struggle and chasing what no one else dared to imagine.