Course B - Kitesurfing Beginners Course II

Learn Riding Upwind and Transitions

Prerequisites - Your level of
kitESURFING before you enter this course:

Your rider level will be assessed at the beginning of the course. It is in your own best interest to assign yourself to the correct course at the correct level.

Before booking this course you should be able to perform water starts and having started to ride a few meters in both directions. You however cannot stay upwind nor do you feel comfortable, safe and independent yet and so this is the right course for you.

What you will learn and the course breakdown

Initial rider assessment: posture and kite control
Controlling your board and your kite while doing a down-winder. At Kitekahunas you can go downwind for 6km right from our doorstep, from Sunset Beach to Doodles Beach. To learn riding upwind - definitely the most difficult phase while learning kitesurfing - will happen within a few days, not month and years, where most learners stop.
Working with radio communication on the water
There will always be an instructor supervising you, either on the beach, kiting with you or on a boat or rescue craft
Slowly you will be able to use the edge of your board to stay upwind with the correct kite positioning and kite control
Point-to-point kiting: Starting and coming back to the same point
Tacking upwind, being able to make ground windward
Transitions to change direction with various kite control and board control techniques
Learning confidence in flat water and wave conditions

Please note this very important point: Our location is particularly suited for kitesurfers, who want to learn riding upwind. This is the most difficult phase in learning kitesurfing. Most beginners fail and stop here in frustration. It often takes many months or years to learn riding upwind, mainly because you have to "walk upwind" all the time and the actual "net practising board time" is therefore limited to only a few minutes per day. At the KITEKAHUNAS beach we can drift many kilometers downwind and practise, and get back by minibus. Therefore our kitesurfing students have 1 hour or more "net practising board time" every day and often learn riding upwind within a few days, not months and years.

This is also why our A+B courses for complete kitesurfing beginners are so popular: Beginner kitesurfers come to Cape Town for 2-3 weeks and return home as real independent kitesurfers, who can then go kitesurfing anywhere.

After this course you will be totally independent and comfortable as a kitesurfer. You will be able to kite in most kitesurfing locations in the world. People will respect your skills and spectators will enjoy watching you kitesurfing.

Participants of kitesurfing course B (learn riding upwind) need their own kitesurfing equipment. You can purchase this with our competent and independent advisory here in Cape Town. Kitesurfing equipment is less expensive in South Africa than in Europe or America and in addition our students qualify for a discount. So it pays off to purchase your kitesurfing equipment in South Africa with KITEKAHUNAS, with this you will get your course almost for free! We offer new and second hand kitesurfing equipment.

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