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Kitesurfing Lessons – The Beginners Guide
Posted under Kite Surfing Lessons, Kitesurfing LessonsFor those of you looking to take your first Kitesurfing Lessons you’ve come to the right place. Kitesurfing is about so much more than boosting massive airs off the lips of sweetly peeling waves, or rushing down the face of a 10 foot barrel with your heart pounding in your ears. Its a way of life, a means of connecting with nature of getting out and discovering the best this world has to offer in some of the most amazing places you can imagine. Its a community, and a friendly and welcoming one at that. Through the means of this website we’re going to show you exactly how you can become a member of the tribe. So grab a brew and let us take you through what you’ll need to know to take your first steps into a wider world.
Learning to Kitesurf can be challenging and your bound to take some hits along the way but at the end of the day its a relatively quick process, expect to be looking after yourself on the water after about a week and be up and riding shortly after that…so about the same time most people take to get the hang of snowboarding. From there its Caribbean turquoise waters, epic kitesurfing sessions on the water and relaxing with Brazilian Beach Volleyball teams (or Top Gun type Volley ball teams for the ladies!) all the way.
On this website we’re going to take you through everything you need to know to get into Kitesurfing as quickly and as smoothly as possible from fitness to flying your first Trainer Kite, to taking Kitesurfing Lessons, and what to look for while booking, to the kitesurfing equipment you’ll need and how much you can expect to spend. By the time you finish reading the website you’ll not only know exactly what you need to do to become a kitesurfer, but how much it’ll cost, and know enough to be able to talk to the guys who’ve been kitesurfing for ages without coming across like a total newbie.
One thing we stress throughout is the importance of taking kitesurfing lessons with a qualified instructor, sure you can learn to kitesurf from the internet or from a friend but statistically your risk of injury shoots up and your chances of ever actually making it to the level where you are an independent kitesurfer shoot down. Why? most people who try and teach themselves or learn kitesurfing from a friend end up giving up from frustration way before they ever get near to riding. If they do make it as far as actually riding they often find they’ve spent a lot more money buying kit that was no good for them and taking a lot more time to learn than it should have. I know, I taught myself and it took me a year to ride upwind and many painful and humiliating sessions that taught me nothing but how to look stupid being dragged around on the sand in front of chicks I was trying to impress!! You also run the risk of injuring others, a kite out of control is a dangerous thing to be near, and for some reason there’s always a helpless old lady standing right in the kites path! Please for your own sake and that of others users of the beach, find an Instructor and take some kitesurfing lessons.
So preamble over lets get into it, we’re going to start with the basics, things you can do right now to start preparing yourself for kitesurfing lessons. Then we’ll take a look at the kiteboarding lessons themselves, where to go, how much to pay, what to look for in a school and most importantly the safety standards
you need to be aware of while kitesurfing. Once your back from your lessons we’ll take a look at kitesurfing equipment, the various types of kites and their relative advantages and disadvantages and what you should be looking for (and what you should be paying) for your first set of kitesurfing equipment. We’ll go over boards, harnesses, wetsuits again looking at what they should cost you and what type is right for you. Next we’ll look at various different riding styles and a look at the various disciplines of kitesurfing, freestyle, wave riding and race. Finally we’ll take a look at the weather and how to interpret all those funny lines on the daily forecast. Through out the guide we’ll be providing links to useful kitesurfing resources and illustrating with pictures and diagrams. We are always looking to improve the site so if you have any comments, whether your a total beginner or a seasoned pro, please, please let us know either by sending an email or leaving a comment we will respond to any questions asked and it gives us a warm fuzzy feeling inside to know that people are actually reading the stuff we write and gaining value from it!