Kite TEAM

Name: Tom Fields
Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN
Sponsors: Backdrop Wake, North Kiteboarding, Anarchy Eyewear, Sharkless Boardsports
Years Riding: 2 Kiteboarding, 6 Wakeboarding
Stance: Goofy
Favorite Spots: Tigertail Beach- Marco Island, Taiba and Cauipe lagoons- Brazil, The Keys
Favorite Food: Definitely can't beat Brazilian Acai
Who or what inspires you? Aaron Hadlow, Youri Zoon, and Alvaro Onieva. They're pushing the sport in the right direction, riding with tons of style and power and always trying to innovate. I also look through tons of wake magazines to get new ideas.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?  Living somewhere warm and tropical with butter flat water, constant 9m wind, and tons of girls.
What is your most prized possession? Without my Macbook Pro I'd be dead. No internet, Dreamweaver, or Photoshop, and life'd be over.
What is your favorite thing about kiteboarding?  I can take everything that I learned wakeboarding, and get higher and more technical. At least when its warm there's tons of girls at the beach too.
What do you consider your greatest achievement? I was definitely excited with my first KPWT world tour stop in Brazil this year. I won my first heat and got 17th out of 30 something.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? I'd probably be a dolphin or something; I always see them when I'm riding.
What do you most value in your friends? My friends' video and photo skills are always important; otherwise I'd never have and new videos or pics to send to the mags.
What interests do you have other than kiteboarding?  I wakeboard sometimes in the summer when its not windy, and I'd definitely like to do some snowboarding this winter, and maybe hit up the cable park in Orlando or Ft. Lauderdale.
What are your plans for the next year?  In January I start school at University of Miami, and so I'll be in Florida for the spring to do all of the spring contests. Then, I'll probably try to go to the Gorge in Oregon for the summer to compete and train, and then hopefully down to Brazil again in the fall for the winter. I also want to do some more KPWT and PKRA world tour stops.

If you are interested in joining the Backdrop Team, please e-mail some info, film, pictures, ect to info@backdropwake.com. Please have SPONSOR ME in the heading.