Boards sports zealot, Patrick is a genuine passionate of Starkites^® products since its beginnings.

He started as ski instructor and ski patrol team member in the Alps during winter and as water ski instructor in Club Med during summer.

Willing to develop and practice windsurfing more often, Patrick will move to Miami to be closer to his favorite playground: the sea.

Entrepreneur in different business areas from real estate to manufacturing, he has always kept the connection with water pursuing water ski and windsurfing on weekends.

He has been introduced to kitesurfing at 40 years old, and as he likes saying: "this was a revelation. It encompasses all his previous sports with more freedom and it is such an exhilarating sport."

Becoming addicted to the sport, Patrick becomes quickly an IKO instructor at its beginnings.

Having started on kites with no safety release and tossed around in wind gusts, he is now delighted to ride on the first bow kites with Starkites^® in 2006. This was what he had been waiting for...no more being overpowered and out of control. Feeling safe in any conditions...

Patrick's motto: "Just do it! Follow your dreams... it's never too late..."

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