Kitty Hawk Kites Kiteboarding Camp Itenerary

My lessons all follow a skills progression list where you must learn one skill before you advance to the next. Following is the itenerary for the course. How far you get in a lesson, greatly depends on how quickly you learn a skill. Practice with one of our trainer kite packages will allow you to advance the quickest.

Check out the section under, "Skills Progression Chart" to see how classes are taught.

Lesson Format:

First Day - morning session

The first morning will be spent in the water flying trainer kites to establish kite control and prepare you for the water. Skills mastered will be:

1) The big picture - understanding how to kitesurf, the wind window, kite placement, board placement, body postioning. Knowing the nomenclature and understanding the skills progression philosophy.
2) How to set up the equipment properly and safely
How to perform pre-flight inspection and remember the checklist
3) Perform solo and assisted launching and landing.
Flying blind and controlling the kite in zenith or nuetral.
4) Use of the harness.
5) Taking twists out of the line and flying with one hand.
6) Use of all safety systems.
7) Learn to control the "power intake" which is increasing and decreasing the power through kite placement.
8) Learn to restrict the kite movements to one side of the wind window.
9) Perform a simulated water start on land that shows the kite placement and proper body postioning.
10) Perform a simulated ride on land where you can jog upwind while keep the kite powered on the far edge of the wind window by sining the kite vertically with limited left and right diving motion.


Afternoon session

We will break for lunch and then in the afternoon we will return to the water. In the water, we will be flying a much larger kite and we will learn the following skills:

1) Execute water launches with the kite off the surface of the water.
2) Learn to land by yourself and how to secure the kite and lines in the water and swim(walk) the equipment safely onto the beach.
3) Self rescue techinique.
4) Fly a full sized kite surfing kite and perform body drags through the water controlling the direction you are being pulled.


Second Day

On the second day of the camp, we will be ready to put it all together for the water start!

Next will be the board and kite handling together to learn the water start.
Put all the kite skills acquired to use and begin to learn the board placement to increase and decrease the amount of power delivered.
Learn to harness the power just enough to execute a smooth take off without being over powered or under powered.


Next, begin learning to control your speed. We will be working on kite placement, body placement, and board placement to smooth everything out and extend your ride.

Loading the kite properly to sustain movement. Load the board and learn to keep your balance.