Windsurfing world-champion is riding towards success

Growing up by the stunning south coast of England, Christine Johnston’s love for windsurfing started at an early age. “My dad got me into windsurfing and I got quite hooked quite quickly.” she explains. Since then, Christine has won eight national titles and most impressively, won the World Windsurfing Championships in 2003.  

After finishing her competitive windsurfing career in 2008, Christine worked at an office job for five years, but found the work tiresome and dull. As an individual with an ambitious personality and a huge passion for watersports, she decided to quit her job and pursue her dream of becoming a kitesurfing instructor. One year later, after Christine completed her kitesurfing instructor course, she took her learnings into practice and founded KiTE SURF & SUP Co, a kitesurfing school and online shop based in beautiful Brighton and Worthing in 2014.

After two years of steady and successful growth, Christine wanted to grow her online shop and update the website to help develop her company even further. In order progress with these plans, she received fast financial support from 126 Funding Circle investors in March 2016 who wanted to see her business thrive.

In this short video, learn more about Christine’s passion for teaching kitesurfing:

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