Kitesurfing Lessons Aruba

KITESURFING
If you never try it, you’ll never know

Break out of your comfort zone and experience the thrills and spills of kiting in the crystal-clear, waist-deep water at Fishermen’s Huts! You’ll start with the basics and most important part of kitesurfing: learning how to control a kite. After a short session on land, you’ll drag your own body in the water using the power of the kite—a technique you’ll need to get back to your board later on. When you manage to go upwind with your kite and can handle strong power dips, you’re ready to get on the board! We’ll guide you in combining your new kite techniques with riding the board, and once you get the hang of putting it all together, you’ll be hooked! Welcome to the kitesurf community! Suitable for ALL ages above 7 years.

We have two priorities: your safety and enjoyment.

You can find an overview of our lesson content below.

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1st Lesson – Kite Flying Basics

The first lesson starts on land for those with no previous kite flying experience. You use a small, low-power, trainer kite to learn the flying techniques; and then progress to the beach where we explain how to rig up a larger kite. Depending on how well you master the kite-flying exercises on land, there may be some time to try your hand at the larger, inflated kite in the water.

• The concept of the wind window and power zone
• Upwind, crosswind and downwind directions
• Kite terminology
• Kite flying drills
• How to avoid unsafe kite flying habits
• Using clock numbers to describe the kite position
• Steering the kite into and out of the power zone
• Power dives, strong and weak
• Introducing the harness and one handed kite control
• Rigging the 4-line, inflated kite

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3rd Lesson – Water Start

Trying to stand up on the board is the most exciting part of your lessons; but it is also the most challenging part for learners. You need to fly the kite correctly while also dealing with a board on your feet. Once you’ve learnt the kite flying drills well enough it gets easy. Our experienced instructors will do their best to train in you the correct kite techniques so that get you up and riding safely.

• Explanation of the water start
• Keeping the kite at 12 with one hand
• Putting the board on with your other hand
• Short water starts followed by controlled stops

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5th Lesson – Riding & Edging

Once you’re up and riding the next challenge will be to begin edging the board to control your direction. The ultimate goal here is to learn how to aim yourself back upwind, as learners mostly head downwind in their initial waterstarts. Mastering upwind riding is a true milestone in kitesurfing, as you are now able to ride where you want and return to your starting point without help. You will usually get a cheer when you achieve this!

Learning to ride upwind usually requires further lessons, for people without prior board riding experience. If you already know the basics and want to learn more, our experienced and knowledgeable instructors can help you learn further kitesurfing techniques, such as:

• Turning (known as transitions)
• Riding toeside
• Jumping
• Freestyle tricks, backrolls, frontrolls etc

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