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Place of Birth: Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Manu Bertin
- Emmanuel Bertin known as Manu Bertin (19 March 1963, in Toulon in France) is one of the pioneers of the sport of Kite surfing.
- He began to develop the sport in the early 1990s and has worked with American big wave surfer Laird Hamilton.
- In 1996 Laird Hamilton and Manu Bertin were instrumental in demonstrating and popularising kitesurfing off the Hawaiian coast of Maui. Manu Bertin has successfully crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean kitesurfing.
- Departing from La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands, Bertin landed in Guadeloupe in 2006.
- Inevitably he couldn't stand continuously on a surfboard twenty-four hours a day, especially with arms extended and being pulled by a kite at speeds of twenty knots and more.
- Bertin's secret is the kit-cat, a contraption consisting of two surfboards arranged like a catamaran, with a lightweight chair fastened in between, an idea inspired twenty years ago by New Zealander Peter Lynn. He has also surfed across the North Pole.
- He kite-surfed through icebergs in Greenland and even across the English Channel, in addition to being three times runner-up in the world windsurf speed championships.
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