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Emmanuel Bertin known as '''Manu Bertin''' ( March 19 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 Hawaii an 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 Guadalupe 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. EXTERNAL LINKS AND SOURCES |
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