Polish rider about to beat Guinness World record in kitesurf

Toby · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 4:58 pm

Polish rider about to beat Guinness World record in kitesurfing

Polish rider Maciej "Zimas" Zimowski plans to beat kitesurfing Guinness World Records in„The longest kite surfing journey“ discipline. Current record: 369.7 km / 229.73 statue miles was set in May 2010 by Phillip McCoy Midler (USA))

Zimas will be kiting from Peninsula of Suez Gulf in the area of Adabiya Port (29°50'54.71"N, 32°30'8.96"E) to El Quasir Kalawy Imperial Hotel (26°30'40.92"N, 34°4'11.65"E) in Egypt, close to the coastal zone. Time of the challenge was set on between 20 and 30 June 2012, depending on the weather and wind conditions.

Zimowski is a kitesurfing instructor (11 years experience as a kitesurfing IKO Level 2 Senior instructor) and a founder of RedSeaZone kitesurfing school and Nobile Test Center located in ElGouna, Egypt.

Keep your fingers crossed for Maciej!

flybykite · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:19 pm

Good Luck Mike, you deserve it! See you on the water.

plummet · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:52 pm

well thats some 1600km short of the actual longest kite journes set by louise Tapper up the coast of brazil a couple of years ago.

pj sofine · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:21 am **Posts:** 210

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At least he has a solid back-up plan.

pj sofine · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:21 am **Posts:** 210

Pre kiting diet also very important for success :winner1:

Puetz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:14 am

plummet wrote:

well thats some 1600km short of the actual longest kite journes set by louise Tapper up the coast of brazil a couple of years ago.

... maybe the record their talking about is for one session, ie non stop??? Just guessing!

adrianoliguori · **Joined:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:00 am **Posts:** 30

I guess the longest journey was made by Louis Tapper in Brazil...

plummet · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:41 pm

this guy did 419km in one stint.

http://www.flyozone.com/kitesurf/en/news/headlines/9823

gazxtreme · **Joined:** Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:14 pm **Posts:** 129

Mike, good luck, hope your'e a bit more prepared than the last guy who tried a Red Sea crossing :thumb:

I often wondered if you were still at Red Sea Zone, I was in Hurghada for my ITC in 2005 when you were shadowing Niel Godbold with view to becoming an examiner, when I came up to see your school it was still under construction in parts and it looked awesome back then, looks like El Gouna developed a bit since 2005 eh?

kitezup · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:45 pm

Another polish shark bait? :allbegood:

Polish rider about to beat Guinness World record in kitesurf

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