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Fuerteventura local, Bruce first visited the paradise island almost 20 years ago. He went to surf and left with his new-found passion for kitesurfing! Alongside fitness training, Bruce loves to teach skiers and train ski instructors and alpine racers, as well as teaching people to kitesurf.
His love of all things to do with the sea came from a BSc & MSc in Oceanography & Meteorology and since then if he’s not on snow, he is very near (if not in) the sea. He worked offshore for many years, based out of Aberdeen, where he learnt to kitesurf. This work rotation allowed him to chase his dream of becoming a Ski Instructor and a move to Fuerteventura a few years ago was perfect for him to hone his surfing as well as to train as a Kitesurf Instructor.
He loves to travel, incorporating as many of his sporting passions as he can, which led him to realise that life itself is the adventure, not just the trips we take. Adventure is also in the mind and the people we meet, only being limited by your quota of free time, wellbeing and your level of fitness. This realisation developed into X-Life; a company focused on fitness for adventure, whatever your X!
Finally deciding to give up work as an Ocean Surveyor, Bruce retrained as a Master Personal Trainer and spends the winter months running X-Life Ski fit alongside ski instructing, back country guiding, race coaching and training other instructors. During the summer months he can be found teaching kitesurfing, Personal Training and running X-Life Escapes to Fitness & Adventure.
Meet Bruce:
Yorkshire lad, living in Fuerteventura
Languages spoken?
English (learning Spanish. I also speak skier’s German, French and Italian – meaning I know how to order a beer and a coffee!)
Sports interests / aspiring to?
Fitness, HIIT, skiing, surfing, kitesurfing, wakeboarding, SUP, MTB. Aspiring to Speed Flying (a cross between skiing, kitesurfing, paragliding and BASE jumping)
Favourite Exercise / Stretch / Pose?
Super skater / Pigeon & Dragon
Most interesting escape activity?
To escape, I love to completely unplug and go for long walks on the beach or up the volcano next to where I live in Fuerteventura
Biggest fear?
Losing my teeth or being trapped underwater (shivers!) 😬
Strangest Talent?
I have a naughty bar trick that I do with a paper napkin (I bet your imagination is going nuts now!)🤣
Last Adventure?
Life IS the adventure for me…I guess the latest crazy experience was last winter, travelling from Fuerteventura to the UK to collect my ski kit, before a quick hop to Barcelona, then Andorra for my level 4 ski training. After a couple of weeks there, I then went back to Barcelona and onto Munich before flying to Tokyo, Sapporo and catching a train to Kutchan, before finally arriving in Niseko for the winter in the Japanese POW! Legendary journey, topped off with an Asahi when I finally arrived in staff accommodation… 🍺
Best Adventure to Date?
For the diversity and sheer fun and adventure, backpacking in Ecuador & Peru or backpacking / surfing in Indonesia, both for the summer when I was ‘working hard’ at university! For its experience of extreme emotions and outcomes though, my journey to becoming CSIA level 3 ISIA instructor. Anyone who knows me understands how much it meant to me and the sheer determination it took to achieve…
Adventure bucket list / ambition
I’d love to do a road trip from Alaska to Patagonia, involving all my sporting passions along the way, most likely not surfing or kiting in Alaska; only skiing! 🥶
Oldest item in fridge / cupboard?
That’s gotta be a jar of instant coffee and a bag of white sugar that a guest here bought and I haven’t touched in 5 years – I admit it; I’m a coffee snob! ☕️
Nerdiest thing you do in your spare time?
Reading. Since starting X-Life, I enjoy all kinds of self-improvement and business literature. Right now, I’m reading the ‘Clever Guts Diet’ and ‘Unstoppable’…
Favourite sports person?
Lewis Hamilton – When I was a kid, I dreamed of being an F1 driver or a fast jet pilot (what little boy doesn’t though, right?). Lewis’ never give up attitude rings very loud bells with me!! 🛩 👨✈️
Ever met a famous person / who?
Yes. I taught one very prominent and wealthy guy to ski in Japan. His name I can’t mention, having had to sign an NDA, but you’d definitely know him! I did have beers with Jimmy Jagger, who’s an absolute legend and a great laugh!
Biggest adrenaline rush ever?
Ooooh, there have been so many; scary ones as well as euphoric ones! Way too many to mention here but right up there would be surfing my first +4m wave at Lobos, just over the water from Fuerteventura. That feeling of being past the point of no return when I was paddling for the monster chasing me was insane, but the rush of nailing the take off and bottom turn is a feeling I’ll never forget! 😍
Explain this photo!
Ha-haaaa…That day was INSANE! So 4 of us had been assigned to a job in Niseko last season. We showed up at the clients’ accommodation at 08:00 to take them skiing, only to be met by a surprised Japanese cleaner when we rang the doorbell. The guests were arriving the following day so, being the conscientious ski trainer, I ‘led’ an impromptu training day…it just so happened that we’d had over half a metre of fresh JaPOW overnight – it was the worst day’s ski training I’ve ever led!!!! 🤪🤣
X-Life is super stoked to welcome Kat into the team!
Based out of Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia, surrounded by the mountains and beaches of the Canadian Pacific North West coast, Katherine (Kat) is an experienced yoga teacher, a passionate and extremely capable ski instructor and trainer, as well as being (at time of writing) a student of acupuncture and Oriental medicine!
Meet KAT:
British adventurer, living in Vancouver
Languages spoken?
English (used to speak conversational Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and French)
Sports interests / aspiring to?
Kitesurfing
Favourite Exercise / Stretch / Pose?
Savasana, obviously! 🙄
Handstand but still working on it, so probably 8 angle pose right now…
Best Adventure to Date?
Hitchhiking from Sheffield to Tallinn in Estonia on £15 or hitchhiking from the border of Honduras in my own, after dark, once I got stranded. The latter was unplanned! 😂
Adventure bucket list / ambition
Heli skiing…and probably ski in Alaska or somewhere cool like that! So many on my bucket list but heli skiing is at the top at the moment
Explain this photo!
😂 I’d just smashed my first half marathon having knocked a good 30 mins off my eta as apparently I am shockingly bad at guesstimating my time 😂😂😂 half my friends missed my finish and Fi and Sam literally rocked up to the finish line with their daughter as I sprinted past so they didn’t even have time to video it 😂😂
X-Life are so proud to introduce Klara!
Leaving behind the corporate world when she moved to London from Paris in April 2017, she decided to pursue her dreams and became a yoga teacher. Sport was always a very important part of her life, from skiing to horse riding and regularly working out in the gym. Several years ago she started seriously practicing yoga, which step by step changed her life. Yoga had a huge role in accepting, loving and understanding her own body and mind and to be in balance.
She qualified as a Vinyasa Yoga teacher at the Yoga School of yoga icon Julie Montagu in London and as a Pregnancy/Restorative and Postnatal yoga teacher at Yoga Mama London. Now her goal is to make others’ lives better while doing things that she loves and make her happy.
Meet KLARA:
Hungarian living in London, UK
Languages spoken?
Hungarian, English, French & Italian
Sports interests / aspiring to?
I would love to learn to surf (maybe kitesurfing…but that might be ambitious). Horseback riding is my number one, along with Yoga
Favourite exercise / stretch / pose?
Child’s pose and Pincha
Most interesting escape activity?
To be in nature and surrounded with animals (oh and feeding ducks in Hyde park)
Biggest fear?
I don’t have fears at this very moment, i used to have many but for now nothing comes to my mind of course i don’t want to lose my loved ones but that will not happen so it is not a fear
Strangest talent?
I imitate some animals’ voices (I will not demonstrate!)
Adventure bucket list / ambition?
Bucket list: el camino, hiking in Peru [Inca Trail]
Oldest item in fridge / cupboard?
Salami from Hungary…i love it but my dad brought several kilos and I just cant handle that much but I feel sorry to throw it out so keeping it till it starts moving
Nerdiest thing you do in your spare time?
I am not a nerd 🤓
Favourite sports person?
My husband and you, of course 😉
Ever met a famous person / who?
Some actors in restaurants when i was in LA, and some Formula one drivers. Ohh…and Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana at a Party in Milano
Biggest adrenaline rush ever?
Going into labor (does that make sense? 🤔)
Explain this photo!
Haha, I have many fighting-for-my-life-pictures while trying to learn to kitesurf…
X-Life is super stoked to welcome Kat into the team!
Based out of Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia, surrounded by the mountains and beaches of the Canadian Pacific North West coast, Katherine (Kat) is an experienced yoga teacher, a passionate and extremely capable ski instructor and trainer, as well as being (at time of writing) a student of acupuncture and Oriental medicine!
Meet KAT:
British adventurer, living in Vancouver
Languages spoken?
English (used to speak conversational Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and French)
Sports interests / aspiring to?
Kitesurfing
Favourite Exercise / Stretch / Pose?
Savasana, obviously! 🙄
Handstand but still working on it, so probably 8 angle pose right now…
Best Adventure to Date?
Hitchhiking from Sheffield to Tallinn in Estonia on £15 or hitchhiking from the border of Honduras in my own, after dark, once I got stranded. The latter was unplanned! 😂
Adventure bucket list / ambition
Heli skiing…and probably ski in Alaska or somewhere cool like that! So many on my bucket list but heli skiing is at the top at the moment
Explain this photo!
😂 I’d just smashed my first half marathon having knocked a good 30 mins off my eta as apparently I am shockingly bad at guesstimating my time 😂😂😂 half my friends missed my finish and Fi and Sam literally rocked up to the finish line with their daughter as I sprinted past so they didn’t even have time to video it 😂😂
Fuerteventura local, Bruce first visited the paradise island almost 20 years ago. He went to surf and left with his new-found passion for kitesurfing! Alongside fitness training, Bruce loves to teach skiers and train ski instructors and alpine racers, as well as teaching people to kitesurf.
His love of all things to do with the sea came from a BSc & MSc in Oceanography & Meteorology and since then if he’s not on snow, he is very near (if not in) the sea. He worked offshore for many years, based out of Aberdeen, where he learnt to kitesurf. This work rotation allowed him to chase his dream of becoming a Ski Instructor and a move to Fuerteventura a few years ago was perfect for him to hone his surfing as well as to train as a Kitesurf Instructor.
He loves to travel, incorporating as many of his sporting passions as he can, which led him to realise that life itself is the adventure, not just the trips we take. Adventure is also in the mind and the people we meet, only being limited by your quota of free time, wellbeing and your level of fitness. This realisation developed into X-Life; a company focused on fitness for adventure, whatever your X!
Finally deciding to give up work as an Ocean Surveyor, Bruce retrained as a Master Personal Trainer and spends the winter months running X-Life Ski fit alongside ski instructing, back country guiding, race coaching and training other instructors. During the summer months he can be found teaching kitesurfing, Personal Training and running X-Life Escapes to Fitness & Adventure.
Meet Bruce:
Yorkshire lad, living in Fuerteventura
Languages spoken?
English (learning Spanish. I also speak skier’s German, French and Italian – meaning I know how to order a beer and a coffee!)
Sports interests / aspiring to?
Fitness, HIIT, skiing, surfing, kitesurfing, wakeboarding, SUP, MTB. Aspiring to Speed Flying (a cross between skiing, kitesurfing, paragliding and BASE jumping)
Favourite Exercise / Stretch / Pose?
Super skater / Pigeon & Dragon
Most interesting escape activity?
To escape, I love to completely unplug and go for long walks on the beach or up the volcano next to where I live in Fuerteventura
Biggest fear?
Losing my teeth or being trapped underwater (shivers!) 😬
Strangest Talent?
I have a naughty bar trick that I do with a paper napkin (I bet your imagination is going nuts now!)🤣
Last Adventure?
Life IS the adventure for me…I guess the latest crazy experience was last winter, travelling from Fuerteventura to the UK to collect my ski kit, before a quick hop to Barcelona, then Andorra for my level 4 ski training. After a couple of weeks there, I then went back to Barcelona and onto Munich before flying to Tokyo, Sapporo and catching a train to Kutchan, before finally arriving in Niseko for the winter in the Japanese POW! Legendary journey, topped off with an Asahi when I finally arrived in staff accommodation… 🍺
Best Adventure to Date?
For the diversity and sheer fun and adventure, backpacking in Ecuador & Peru or backpacking / surfing in Indonesia, both for the summer when I was ‘working hard’ at university! For its experience of extreme emotions and outcomes though, my journey to becoming CSIA level 3 ISIA instructor. Anyone who knows me understands how much it meant to me and the sheer determination it took to achieve…
Adventure bucket list / ambition
I’d love to do a road trip from Alaska to Patagonia, involving all my sporting passions along the way, most likely not surfing or kiting in Alaska; only skiing! 🥶
Oldest item in fridge / cupboard?
That’s gotta be a jar of instant coffee and a bag of white sugar that a guest here bought and I haven’t touched in 5 years – I admit it; I’m a coffee snob! ☕️
Nerdiest thing you do in your spare time?
Reading. Since starting X-Life, I enjoy all kinds of self-improvement and business literature. Right now, I’m reading the ‘Clever Guts Diet’ and ‘Unstoppable’…
Favourite sports person?
Lewis Hamilton – When I was a kid, I dreamed of being an F1 driver or a fast jet pilot (what little boy doesn’t though, right?). Lewis’ never give up attitude rings very loud bells with me!! 🛩 👨✈️
Ever met a famous person / who?
Yes. I taught one very prominent and wealthy guy to ski in Japan. His name I can’t mention, having had to sign an NDA, but you’d definitely know him! I did have beers with Jimmy Jagger, who’s an absolute legend and a great laugh!
Biggest adrenaline rush ever?
Ooooh, there have been so many; scary ones as well as euphoric ones! Way too many to mention here but right up there would be surfing my first +4m wave at Lobos, just over the water from Fuerteventura. That feeling of being past the point of no return when I was paddling for the monster chasing me was insane, but the rush of nailing the take off and bottom turn is a feeling I’ll never forget! 😍
Explain this photo!
Ha-haaaa…That day was INSANE! So 4 of us had been assigned to a job in Niseko last season. We showed up at the clients’ accommodation at 08:00 to take them skiing, only to be met by a surprised Japanese cleaner when we rang the doorbell. The guests were arriving the following day so, being the conscientious ski trainer, I ‘led’ an impromptu training day…it just so happened that we’d had over half a metre of fresh JaPOW overnight – it was the worst day’s ski training I’ve ever led!!!! 🤪🤣
X-Life are so proud to introduce Klara!
Leaving behind the corporate world when she moved to London from Paris in April 2017, she decided to pursue her dreams and became a yoga teacher. Sport was always a very important part of her life, from skiing to horse riding and regularly working out in the gym. Several years ago she started seriously practicing yoga, which step by step changed her life. Yoga had a huge role in accepting, loving and understanding her own body and mind and to be in balance.
She qualified as a Vinyasa Yoga teacher at the Yoga School of yoga icon Julie Montagu in London and as a Pregnancy/Restorative and Postnatal yoga teacher at Yoga Mama London. Now her goal is to make others’ lives better while doing things that she loves and make her happy.
Meet KLARA:
Hungarian living in London, UK
Languages spoken?
Hungarian, English, French & Italian
Sports interests / aspiring to?
I would love to learn to surf (maybe kitesurfing…but that might be ambitious). Horseback riding is my number one, along with Yoga
Favourite exercise / stretch / pose?
Child’s pose and Pincha
Most interesting escape activity?
To be in nature and surrounded with animals (oh and feeding ducks in Hyde park)
Biggest fear?
I don’t have fears at this very moment, i used to have many but for now nothing comes to my mind of course i don’t want to lose my loved ones but that will not happen so it is not a fear
Strangest talent?
I imitate some animals’ voices (I will not demonstrate!)
Adventure bucket list / ambition?
Bucket list: el camino, hiking in Peru [Inca Trail]
Oldest item in fridge / cupboard?
Salami from Hungary…i love it but my dad brought several kilos and I just cant handle that much but I feel sorry to throw it out so keeping it till it starts moving
Nerdiest thing you do in your spare time?
I am not a nerd 🤓
Favourite sports person?
My husband and you, of course 😉
Ever met a famous person / who?
Some actors in restaurants when i was in LA, and some Formula one drivers. Ohh…and Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana at a Party in Milano
Biggest adrenaline rush ever?
Going into labor (does that make sense? 🤔)
Explain this photo!
Haha, I have many fighting-for-my-life-pictures while trying to learn to kitesurf…
It’s our privilege to introduce surfer & happiness seeker, Lisa!
Italian by birth, Lisa has exactly the outlook on life that X-Life is all about. Being an accomplished Physiotherapist and an Osteopath, she’s full of energy and positive vibes!
On a mission to help others to change their perspectives, she landed on Fuerteventura a couple of years ago and decided to explore these wild lands whilst embracing a surfer’s lifestyle. From there on, her magical hands have been one of the most precious sources of well being and healing on the island, both for locals and holiday makers alike. We just know that you’re going to fall in love with her amazing massages and soothing hands!
Meet LISA:
Italian, living in Fuerteventura
Languages spoken?
Italian, English, Spanish, French
Sports interests / aspiring to?
I’m always trying to improve my surfing
Favourite exercise / stretch / pose?
coming soon…
Most interesting escape activity?
Errr…SURFING!
Biggest fear?
To meet a White shark while i’m surfing!
Strangest talent?
coming soon…
Last adventure?
coming soon…
Best adventure to date?
coming soon…
Adventure bucket list / ambition/
To travel Peru with a backpack
Oldest item in fridge / cupboard?
coming soon..
Nerdiest thing you do in your spare time?
Bingewatching with Netflix
Favourite sports person?
Jason Momoa
Ever met a famous person / who?
I’d love to meet Jason Momoa to have some SUP lesson (sure, fot that ). I’m not sure if that really answers the question so, once i met this comedian that was actually very famous Like few years ago in my region and the coolest thing was that he told me that i was very funny. I felt fullfilled!!
Biggest adrenaline rush ever?
I was driving My car with in a real storm and i couldn’t see the road because of the rain falling so strongly. At the end of the day i couldn’t feel My legs because of the adrenaline
Explain this photo!
Pretending to be skating in LA Like a pro, but I was in the countryside in my hometown; 22.000 inhabitants, singing to myself the O. C. soundtrack!
It’s a huge pleasure to have Elaine in the awesome Team X-Life!
Yorkshire born & bred, currently based out of Pudsey, Leeds, Elaine is a hugely respected Pilates instructor. She trained with Modern Pilates, a physio led system, with a clinical, contemporary approach to mat work Pilates. A lover of sport, she is a keen skier and passionate runner, she runs and coaches with her local running club, Pudsey Pacers.
Elaine is interested in the functional movement of the body and loves to help people improve their strength, mobility and flexibility, therefore improving their form and reducing injuries. She works with an ethos of prevention is better than cure.
Meet ELS:
English Rose, living in W. Yorkshire
Languages spoken?
Kitchen French very badly
Sports interests / aspiring to?
-My passions are running and skiing. I enjoy cycling and would love to do a triathlon but I’m not very good at swimming!
Favourite exercise / stretch / pose?
Single leg deadlift with variations I’ve invented! Pigeon stretch…
Most interesting escape activity?
I attended a couple of run camps / escapes. This taught me it is possible to train 2 or 3 times a day, 6 days a week, training like a professional athlete!
Biggest fear?
Really deep water
Strangest talent?
I can lose my glasses, even when they are on my head!
Last adventure?
Skiing on French-Italian border last winter
Best adventure to date?
13 years of marriage to my wonderful husband, Andrew
Adventure bucket list / ambition?
I would like to see elephants in the wild and tour New Zealand
Oldest item in fridge / cupboard?
Mumtaz madras curry paste!
Nerdiest thing you do in your spare time?
Watch Country File
Favourite sports person?
Nicky Spinks, fell runner
Ever met a famous person / who?
Prince Phillip, I served him dinner!
Biggest adrenaline rush ever?
Unlike my brothers I’m not an adrenaline junky, so probably competing at the start of the London Marathon
Explain this photo!
Lol…that’s Andrew a few years ago ready to start the Coniston Chill Swim. Lake Coniston end to end 5.5 miles.
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