Kite Lessons - City Beach

Kite Lessons

The first step in kitesurfing is called the Discovery Level. This part of the course is where the groundwork begins. Here you will learn not only the theory though all the on-land skills that will be practiced in the water too.

You will learn everything from doing an SEA (Spot, Environment, Activity) Assessment, to properly set up your equipment, using your kite safety systems and pre-flight checks. Once you have learned the theoretical aspects of flying a kite, you will proceed straight to hands-on practice whether on the beach or in shallow water. This will be your first experience piloting the kite in the air, how exciting! Here you will explore the wind window and train various skills like letting go of the bar (the most important technique for safety), twisting and untwisting the lines, flying and walking the kite with one hand and launching and landing the kite as the pilot.

Eventually, you will learn more theory about the wind window to gain more in-depth insight into what is actually happening and why. As you begin maturing and understanding you will practice using your kite’s safety quick release and doing a self-landing. After having mastered the basics of flying a kite, you will learn how to wrap up and pack all your equipment. This first module in the learning path will take a couple of hours. Now you will move on to learning more skills and further practicing them in the water.

Intermediate (Level 2)

Once you have passed the Discovery level you will move into the Intermediate Level. At this point, you can already launch, land and fly the kite all over the wind window with control. Now, it’s time to get wet!

With your Instructor, you will learn how to enter and exit the water while controlling the kite as well as relaunching the kite when it falls in the water. Once you have successfully done these exercises you will begin exploring the power of the kite by doing power strokes on both sides as well as other body-dragging exercises with and without the board in hand.

Now that you have mastered these exercises, it will be time to learn some theory about the Right of Way rules (ROW) before going back into the water to do some steady-pull and water-start attempts with the board!

Indepemdent (Level 3)

If you reached the Independent level of your kitesurfing journey, it means you have passed the Discovery and Intermediate steps successfully; congratulations! You are at the tipping point of the learning curve. the ocean to catch your waves.

At the Independent stage, you should be comfortable and confident going in and out of the water, know the ROW rules and are getting the hang of getting up on the board in the water. You will practice stopping on command once riding as well as controlling your speed by edging your board.

Now comes one of the most important steps to be an independent kiter: learning to ride upwind! Riding upwind will help you maintain and gain ground while kitesurfing. Once you can go upwind you will continue working on riding skills such as sliding transitions, toeside riding and turns (and start adding a bit more flair and style to your riding!).