i wear my IKO tshirt with pride

kiwimike · **Joined:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:22 am **Posts:** 137

seriously you bunch of pricks at IKO i want my money back.

Tone · **Joined:** Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:34 pm **Posts:** 1080

Context would help.

kiwimike · **Joined:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:22 am **Posts:** 137

paid fees to IKO for 3 years and they refused to answer my emails or talk to me on the phone.

longwhitecloud · **Joined:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 1261

I would still like my money back too!

uncle sammy · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:11 pm **Posts:** 126

kiwimike wrote:

seriously you bunch of pricks at IKO i want my money back.

Sheep · **Posted:** Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:24 pm

ive never been associated with IKO and dont wish to for obvious reasons

just wondered what the wind is like at pats lately... worth a trip for some naughty tricks???

Rorke · **Posted:** Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:14 pm

The communication deficiency with IKO is well known.
While IKO will reply to emails regarding basic FAQ's, I am not sure that they are able to respond to anything less usual.
Even if the IKO gatekeepers have a method of pushing questions/requests/suggestions up the chain, there may be some kind of policy-making paralysis at upper levels.

I think very highly of the IKO program curriculum. It is outstanding.
My instructor evaluator in Miami was very good, and I surprisingly learned a lot.

While there are fundamental problems there are also solutions.
If IKO does not implement these solutions, they will 1. remain vulnerable; 2. Get publicity like this post.
Of course, IKO principals may just not care or be trying to sell their curriculum (which is valuable, but not irreproducible).

I am no expert, however, I have been through enough training to know the score.

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TommyDelly · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:20 pm **Posts:** 80

What kind of fees do you have to pay to IKO?

Also is there any other licence than IKO? I mean if you want to have your own kite school, do you have to be IKO certified or is there any other organization, where you can get your licence?

kiwimike · **Joined:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:22 am **Posts:** 137

wind light as usual but still worth a trip. let me know if you are over.

Sheep wrote:

ive never been associated with IKO and dont wish to for obvious reasons

just wondered what the wind is like at pats lately... worth a trip for some naughty tricks???

kiwimike · **Joined:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:22 am **Posts:** 137

think the yearly fee is 800usd to be an iko center. there were hundreds of schools paying a few years ago but now there are less than 80. infact they stopped listing them on their website because there are so few left. we were paying 550usd per year because we had 4 schools. we were one of their biggest customers but after some problems we all cancelled. it was as if they did not care. strange as the only thing they did well was sending out bills to collect money. surely they would care about 2200USD.

i started the kite safe association

http://www.kitesafeassociation.com/

you can print you own student rider cards and get your own insurance of this site all free of charge.

TommyDelly wrote:

What kind of fees do you have to pay to IKO?

Also is there any other licence than IKO? I mean if you want to have your own kite school, do you have to be IKO certified or is there any other organization, where you can get your licence?

i wear my IKO tshirt with pride

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