Kites. Surfing. Normally two very separate, very different activities. One involves water, wax and great whites, the other comedy canvas bi-planes trailing bits of ribbon. But, as Brightonite William Keen discovered, put them together and you have the best thing since sliced bread.

"Kitesurfing isn't dangerous at all," says William. "Surfing is amazing, but there aren't too many great waves where I live. For me, kitesurfing is a way of getting the buzz that surfing gives you on a more regular basis."

William saw the way the wind was blowing after jacking in his job as a London lawyer last year, moved to Brighton, signed up to a horticultural course, and helped set up a gardening business.

The self-confessed smiling, cheeky, lame-joke-telling kitesurfer has been catching the waves, and the wind, for four years. "I got into surfing because my two best mates were into it before me and, as at the time I only had two friends, I thought I'd better pick it up sharpish," says Will.

It's early days for the business, but Will reckons that he has a roof over his head, food to eat, a girlfriend, and that he gets to spend every day outdoors in the fresh air, with some epic surf sessions to boot.

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