DEFI KITE Gruissan 2025 – For the Books!
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If you’ve never seen 300+ kites launch into a 40 km-long race through howling offshore wind, you haven’t lived the Defi Kite. Held each spring in Gruissan, France, the event is part marathon, part survival mission, part international kite tribe reunion – and 100% wind-driven madness. In its 10th edition, the 2025 Defi Kite brought together over 300 riders from 18 countries — from Wallis & Futuna and New Zealand to Qatar and Hawai‘i. Some were seasoned pros with Olympic medals. Others had just learned to kite a few years ago. But when the tramontane blows at over 30 knots, nobody’s level really matters, only the will to charge hard, hold on, and make it to the finish line.
Read all about it here!
