Learn to Kiteboard/Kitesurf with the KITE EXPERTS!
We've been Teaching the World to Fly Since 1974.
"The Original Kiteboarding School"We strongly encourage you to take a lesson to minimize the risk to you and to your equipment as well as to accelerate your learning and make the sport enjoyable for you instead of a kitemare. If you are at all interested in getting started in kite surfing, you should start by learning the kite skills. The skills required to do this sport is over 80% in the kite handling. Extremely good kite skills is mandatory to learn. If you don't have extremely good kite handling skills already,the first thing you need to do is purchase a trainer package. Check out the
trainer kite packages we offer and purchase one before you take a lesson!
Well over 80% of the skills required to kiteboard are in the kite flying part of it, not the board part of it.
LocationKitty Hawk Kites(KHK)Kiteboarding Resort is located in Waves, NC on Hatteras Island. Waves, is located on the beautiful Outer Banks barrier islands of North Carolina. The Outer Banks has become known as the premier kite surfing/boarding destination places in the USA! Hang gliding, wind surfing, and aeronatical history have made the Outer Banks famous and now kiteboarding is making it's claim to the Outer Banks. The predictable smooth and sometimes strong winds provide plenty of fuel here for the sport. The endless miles of shallow waters make the perfect conditions for those learning. The comfort and ease of the shallow waters will increase your learning speed and you can learn more here in days than you can learn months in other conditions. The Pamlico, Albarmarle, and Currtuck Sounds from over 390 square miles of pristine beach line with flat calm waters with a carpet of golden sound to walk on! On the other side of the road, the Outer Banks boasts some of the best surf on the entire East Coast. Bordered by the Atlantic, the miles of beach provides the ultimate skate park for those looking for a bit more challenge!
Kitty Hawk Kites Kiteboaring Resort is built on 4 acres of the most prized kiteboarding on Hatteras Island! Check out our resort details at:
www.kittyhawk.com/kiteresort Kitty Hawk Kites Kiteboarding Resort offers you the amenities of a world class resort! We have a massive 15,000 sq. foot kiteboarding shop staffed with pro riders and experts to guide you through the latest gear available! Although our site is open to the public, we have a private beach where we teach our lessons. We have a restaurant on our third floor with a deck that overlooks the water and kiteboarding riding area. Watch the incredible sunset view over the sound! We have a bathrooms and showers on site complete with hot water!
We also boats and jet skiis in the instructional process to aid in our efficiency and reduce student fatigue. We also rent wave runners on site for your friends!
Kitty Hawk Kites is also home to the largest Hang Gliding School in the USA! We have been teaching the world to fly since 1974! We are also the largest kite store on the East Coast with our main location in Nags Head and a total of 12 retail locations on the Outer Banks to serve you better! Don't forget to watch a hang gliding lesson at Jocky's Ridge State Park, the largest living dune system on the East Coast! Stop by the Wright Memorial and Museum to see where modern aviation was born. See the guardian of the graveyard of the Atlantic, the Hatteras lighthouse. This is the largest stone lighthouse in the US! There is also world class boating and the largest most modern commercial fishing fleet at Oregon Inlet. But, hey don't forget that you came here to kiteboard!!