Asnews Interviews Board Shaper Dereck Camacho

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PODCAST #76! Asnews Interviews Board Shaper Dereck Camacho

Dereck Camacho was born in Trinidad, grew up and Singapore and Hawaii, and lived in Antigua and Barbados before finally settling down in Florida. He is the founder of Kitescoop.com and started shaping surf and windsurf boards in college. He got hooked on kiting after seeing Dre and the rest of the local Antigua crew having a blast in wind conditions he couldn’t even go out in with his windsurfing gear.

Dereck started shaping kiteboards about five years ago as he was too cheap to buy a production board to learn on when he didn’t even know what kind of board he needed. Today, Dereck owns DC Custom Boards which offers custom kite, wind and surf boards. He caters to riders that want a little bit extra out of their equipment, focusing on details that stoke one rider at a time. He has also been working with Paul Menta of The Kite House and Kent Marinkovic of Adventures Sports (Neilpryde, Cabrinha) on new course and speed racing shapes and designs to help give them a competitive edge.

Got a question for Dereck about board shapes and what works best for flat water, choppy conditions, wave riding or course racing? Join the live interview and discussion this Thursday night!

• When: Thursday, May 24, 2007
• Time: 6p PST, 8p Central, 9p EST, super early for Europe!
• Where: http://cherrytap.com/lounge.php?l=1293

If you can't join the live broadcast, you can post your questions here and we will ask them for you. You can then download the interview at www.thekiteboarder.com, www.asnews.net, www.itunes.com, www.kiteforum.tv or any one of the top podcasting portal websites.

The deadline to post questions is this Thursday, May 24, 4:30pm PST.

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Way to go Dereck! A number of Florida riders are using your custom boards for improved performance in specific applications, e.g. speed, downwind distance races, boardercross, course racing.


Dereck packs into the first Jupiter Kiteboarding Competition


Dereck sighting in Antigua in 2004


Scoping out Jake, his then 11 year old team rider off Jabberwock Beach