We offer a wide range of kiteboarding tuition, from beginner up to advanced and the Kite Surfing Academy has all the resources and rescue facilities necessary to ensure your safety. All courses are run by qualified IKO instructors and the Academy is a a recognised IKO kiteboarding Academy. This means you are guaranteed professional tuition with particular attention paid to your safety.
THE COURSES
As a recognised IKO Center we can issue the IKO Kiteboarder card which means your progress can be tracked and your tuition can be furthered at any recognised IKO center. The Kite Surfing Academy can provide courses dealing with any of the aspects of your kite surfing that you need help with. Courses cover any of the topics below:
• Equipment Setup
• How to determine wind direction
• Therory about the wind window
• Piloting at the top of the window with short or long lines
• Launching & landing at the edge of the window with an assistant
• Untwisitng lines by rotating the boom
• Conduct a thorough pre-flight check
• Launching and landing a kite by yourself
• Piloting the kite in the power zone
• Working with the kite in the power zone to generate a steady pull
• Rig a 4-line kite
• Rig and adjust a 4-line de-powering system
• Pilot a kite with the harness
• Piloting in the power zone and generating a steady drag on land
• Water start technique on land
• Body dragging without a harness
• Relaunching the kite from the water
• Untwisting the lines by rotating the boom whilst in the water
• Hooking into the harness while in the water
• Body dragging using body position & piloting the kite to move in wanted direction
• Generating a steady pull in starting position on the board
• Connecting hte leash
• Water start
• Navigation while moving
• Awareness of position (start and arrival point)
• Theory about edge control
• Upwind riding
• Riding twin-tip boards
• Switching direction
