"Kite Surfing has been around for about 4 years now. It started in France but has spread really well throughout Britain over the last couple of years. It's a new extreme sport whereby you use a small surfboard with straps and you are attached to a large power kite on 30 metre lines. This allows you to steer yourself. You can cruise along or do jump's the size of houses, including triple loops and spins."

"A bit of both really, though I'd say tricks mainly as you can pretty much do anything. There are so many tricks and manoeuvres that you can do in the air or you can just cruise along doing smaller scale jumps. Massive airs aren't essential - you can take it to whatever level you want."

"Flying small power kites is the best way to start and following that, go and get a lesson from an approved BKSA or IKO Kite Surfing school. The BKSA is the British Kite Surfing Association and the IKO is the International Kite Boarders Organisation. Most instructors in Britain are qualified by these organisations and so these are the names to look for. Normally a two-day course would be enough to get you up and going on a board. This will give you all the important safety instruction as if you started Kite Surfing without any instruction you could end up in a right mess!"

"The essential pieces of equipment to start of with would firstly be a kite, not too big something around six metres. You'd also need a kite board and a harness; your bar and lines should come with the board. You could get a second hand set up complete for about £700 a new set up would be about £1000. It's definitely worth it though as once you have the equipment all you need then is wind! It's much more fun than wake-boarding behind a boat...."

"I will have the Dale Sea safari rib from Pembrokeshire which is 30ft and does the trips around the coastal islands. It's one of the most sea worthy ribs you can get and the fastest in Britain. I've got complete confidence in that backing me up as a safety boat!"

"I'm hoping for between 4 and 6 hours."

"I will carry water bottles and water can be passed to me from the support boat but hopefully I won't need to eat anything."

"The ideal conditions would be anything between a westerly and a northerly wind and over 20 mph. It's actually looking quite good for either Thursday Sept 5 or Friday Sept 6. The wind is blowing in the right direction so all I need now is a good amount of it!"

"Kite Surfing can be done on flat water or in waves; you can still get over 40 ft of air in still water. I actually prefer waves as you can surf them as you would with surfing but you can do more manoeuvres."

"I have been training with the safety boat so that we know the drill if I need to change a kite or there is another problem. I train for 3 or 4 hours whenever it's windy so that won't change and then eating lots of carbohydrates a couple of days before the trip."

"I'm sponsored by Animal Clothing, Nintendo Game Boy Advance and F1 Kites so I do promotional work for them e.g. photo shoots etc. Then it's competitions and trips abroad and this is an extension on that. I've got three competitions next week and a trip away so I wanted to do this before getting into them."

"Yes, I suppose it is, we have also set up a Kite Surfing school in Pembrokeshire with the help of the PBA start up scheme, so we'll be teaching Kite Surfing next summer as well."