Evan Smith

Explore the globe with Anna Hashem and her World Class Kiteboard Academy classmates. In this video, Anna shares highlights from the 2018-2019 school year.

The Rio Claro is one of the most beautiful rivers in the world, based within the Siete Tazas National Park in the Maule Region of Chile. I have always dreamed of running this river and I got my chance to kayak this glorious canyon near the end of quarter 2. Throughout my stay in Chile […]

Travel down under with the World Class Academy and Sam Light. This camp took place over 10 days in January of 2019 in Safety Bay, Austraila. Throughout the camp, the team was focused on improving their freestyle and big air kiteboarding, creating media, and making new friends. Edit by Ant Brown Clips by Ant Brown, […]

At World Class Academy we get the incredible opportunity to see and experience some truly beautiful places. I would consider myself pretty well traveled before World Class, but some of the destinations I have seen are amazing. Each outstanding in their own right, with interesting landscapes and unique animals scurrying around. Yet, sometimes the sights […]

By: Nathaniel Baird The cold, hard concrete is unforgiving. Wet with a week’s worth of rain and caked in centuries worth of mud, the tattered slabs of concrete lay fairly unassuming. Uneven mirrors of rain and half-smoked cigarettes reflect the dull LED lights of the city in front of me. ‘Where am I?’ I think […]