The Trainer Kite

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Practising with a trainer kite before your kitesurfing lessons can give you a massive head start, literally saving you days of money and time.

Practising with a trainer kite is the most cost effective method of getting into kitesurfing for 2 reasons:

   1. You will progress much further and faster during your kitesurfing lessons, saving you money having to pay an instructor. With kite flying skills under your belt, your instructor will able to move you to a full sized kitesurfing kite much sooner, and your general progression throughout the entire course will be improved.

   2. You will save your new kitesurfing gear from unnecessary wear and tear during your first days of learning to ride. We all bounbce kites off the beach to start with, best to do it with a cheap trainer kite than a shiny, new (expensive) one!

Spending at least 4-10 hours on a trainer kite prior to a lesson will allow you to advance at a much faster pace than coming in with no kite flying experience. Remember that learning to kitesurf (your initial 8-10 sessions) is 80% kite flying. Every hour you spend flying a kite prior to trying to put a board on your feet will double your chances of getting up and riding, avoiding the frustration of continually crashing your kite into the water. Snow kiting and Land kiting can be learned in one tenth of the time that water kiting can be learned. A basic trainer will get you started down this road.

So now onto part 2 and the fun stuff - Kitesurfing Lessons – Flying your Trainer Kite

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