The 
Kitesurfing Team in Cape Town
This is the kitesurfing instructors team of Kitekahunas standing at the top of the Beach House in Cape Town - Sunset Beach - with the Kitekahunas logo in the background.
From left to right: Mariska, Wolf, Matt, Gabe and Jehro.
Kitekahunas kitesurfing instructors team after a day of good kitesurfing standing in the garden of the Kitekahunas Beach House in Cape Town.
From left to right: Jehro, Wolf, Matt, Gabe and Mariska.
Team Kitekahunas enjoying the great sea views at the top of the Kitekahunas Beach House, located directly on Sunset Beach, Cape Town. The wind here is best and legendary, probably stronger and more reliable than anywhere else in the world during our season October till the beginning of April. Perfect for kitesurfing in Cape Town.
Mika, one of our kitesurfing instructors enjoying some flat water to train some new tricks.
Andi is happy, he is one of our advanced kitesurfing instructors and helps you to advance your kitesurfing skill in a safe way.
After a good day of kitesurfing at the beach in front of our Kitekahunas Beach House located in Sunset Beach, Cape Town. A nice spot with every day different conditions from high waves till small waves, but always with Table Mountain in the background.
From left to right: Wolf, Laura, Mariska and Jehro.
Laura-Li, our marketing intern checking the wind on a pristine day.
Wolf and Laura enjoying the nice weather after good kitesurfing in the great waves of Sunset Beach, Cape town. Are they ready for the next session?
Kitekahunas kitesurfing instructors team together with the participants of the A, G and F kitesurfing course in December 2009. After a week of kitesurfing washing the kites in the garden at the Kitekahunas Beach House. It was a kitesurfing course with different nationalities and great action on the water!
Meet Wolf
Full Name: Dr. Wolfram Reiners
Born in: 1967
Nationality: German
Director Kitekahunas / Master of Psychology
When did you start your kitesurfing career?
Kiteboarding I started in 2007 and I absolutely love it. I spend lots of time on the water. I grew up at the northern boarder of the Alps, and as a kid and teen I have been skiing every day for half of the year - and now I do the similar thing on the water. Teaching has always been a passion of mine and I concentrate on the sports psychology side of teaching kitesurfing in Cape Town.
Explain your favourite kitesurfing trick
I almost don't dare to say: My favourite tricks are still very high jumps with board grabs.
Explain the kitesurfing trick you are working on now
Raileys and other unhooked tricks and carving waves.
What is your favourite kitesurfing spot?
My absolute favourite kitesurfing spot is Sunset Beach, Cape Town. Not because it is directly on our doorstep of Kitekahunas, but because it has the best wind in Cape Town - and with this it is therefore the best wind in the world from October till April, but also the most constant and clean waves and flat water in between.
What are the other sports/hobbies you practise next to kitesurfing?
There are very few sports that I have not done in my life. I enjoyed most mountain hiking, scuba diving and skiing, but now kiteboarding is the definite crown.
Meet Mika
Full Name: Michael Liesenberg
Born in: 1989
Nationality: Brasil
IKO Instructor
When did you start your kitesurfing career?
Kiteboarding I started in 2006 in Brasil. I was looking for something in between Wakeboarding and Sailing. Since then, I spend a lot of time in the water. I grew up in Florian—polis (Brasil). The condition there for kitesurfing are really good. Teaching has always been a passion of mine.
Explain your favourite kitesurfing trick
I enjoy flying the kite low at 45¡ and do some quick moves.
Explain the kitesurfing trick you are working on now
Carving the waves
What is your favourite kitesurfing spot?
My favorite spot is in Ocracoke. The wind is strong and the waves are good.
What are the other sports/hobbies you practise next to kitesurfing?
I enjoy Mountain biking and sailing .
Meet Andy
Full Name: Andreas Lehr
Born in: 1967
Nationality: German
VDWS Kitesurfinstructor
When did you start your kitesurfing career?
My first contact with kitesurfing was in Workum, Neatherlands in 2005. I liked it right away, but it was first in 2008 I really started and spend each free moment on the water. I like to share my passion for kitesurfing with others thats why I became an instructor.
Explain your favourite kitesurfing trick
My favourite trick at the moment is unhooked kiteloops, where you really feel the power of the kite.
Explain the kitesurfing trick you are working on now
For me it is all about what kind of conditions i'm in. In stronger wind, oldschool style, at the moment I am working on a frontrole boardoff. In less wind, s-bend downloop.
What is your favourite kitesurfing spot?
Tarifa with strong Poniente (seebreeze) and Cape Town.
What are the other sports/hobbies you practise next to kitesurfing?
Most of the time there are not many other options around, but I like to snowboard and wakeboard.
Meet Laura
Full Name: Laura-Li Kämper
Born in: 1991
Nationality: German
Marketing Intern Kitekahunas
When did you start your kitesurfing career?
Since I was young, I’ve been visiting with my family the boat show in Düsseldorf, but last year kitesurfing caught my attention. From that moment on I was fascinated by this sport and did shortly later with my friends a one-week course in the Netherlands. Now I’m really looking forward to the time as an intern with Kitekahunas in which I can improve my kitesurfing skills.
Explain your favourite kitesurfing trick
I still have to learn tricks.
Explain the kitesurfing trick you are working on now
First jumps
What is your favourite kitesurfing spot?
Cape Town
What are the other sports/hobbies you practise next to kitesurfing?
I love skiing, climbing, motor biking, parkour and stuff like that...but I also enjoy Golf, playing the piano, learning languages and traveling around the world.
Meet Gabe
Full name: Gabriel Webber
Born in: 1977
Nationality: USA
Advanced IKO instructor
When did you start your kitesurfing career?
Years of kiting – 4 and a half years in the Virgin Islands and the last two in various spots around the world.
Years of teaching – 3 years in such places as Peru, Costa Rica and Greece.
Explain your favourite kitesurfing trick
Trying to jump as high as I can, maybe with a kiteloop and riding strapless in the waves.
Explain the kitesurfing trick you are working on now
Jumping strapless
What is your favourite kitesurfing spot?
Peru, but Cape Town has moved to the top of my list.
What are the other sports/hobbies you practise next to kitesurfing?
There is something besides kiting?!? I would have to say travelling then.
Meet Mariska
Full Name: Mariska Wildenberg
Born in: 1989
Nationality: The Netherlands
Trainee/Advanced IKO instructor
When did you start your kitesurfing career?
4 years ago I started kitesurfing with one lesson in Holland the first lesson I learned riding on the board. A year later I started practising with my own kite and never stopped…
Years of teaching-Since two years I’m an outdoor instructor at different activities (like: kite flying on the beach, climb abseil, canoe, challenged parcours, teambuilding, etc.) This year I did the IKO course and since then I’m teaching kitesurfing more and more.
Explain your favourite kitesurfing trick
I still have to learn my favourite trick.
Explain the kitesurfing trick you are working on now
Riding in the high waves of South Africa. And thinking about doing my backrolls and frontrolls more often…
What is your favourite kitesurfing spot
My favourite kitespot is in Holland, Wijk aan Zee. But the spots in Cape Town are becoming closer and closer to number one… …
What are the other sports/hobbies you practise next to kitesurfing?
Next to kitesurfing I have some other NO wind sport/hobby options that I like to do, snowboarding, snowkiting, wakeboarding, windsurfing, wavesurfing, swimming. And for already 9 years I play soccer.