Did your teacher in primary school win a Nobel price literature to teach you how to read and write? Did your driving instructor need to be a formula 1 pilot to teach you to drive a car? After teaching kitesurfing for 2 years (IKO 1487) I never had a student asking me more then upwind lessons. Once s...
The wind in Cabarete is still OK but from sept till nov you can always have a few days of strange wind (light, raising late, dying early,...) because of the low-pressure weathersystems.
If possible please contact me at Tom@Rogie.be. I would like one of you to bring some small stuff that I cannot find in Cabarete. I'm staying here for 2 months.
The problem is that you THINK there is a problem, but in fact there is NONE! Every brand, every model and almost every kite is a potential problem. Some because of bad treatement, some because productionfaults... I have seen kites with factory mistakes and no mather what brand they all got replaced ...
Try to poll the power lines a few times in. Then release them at once and swim hard toward the kite. The kite will turn on his back. Then pull on one of the steering lines but not hard. The kite will go to the other direction. When you see the kite starts to pick up wind, release the steering line e...