KITESURFING
Of course, the surfing community had to come up with even more ways to combine water and wind. This time by being strapped to a kite and sometimes literally flying over the water!
Kitesurfing is a spectacular sport that is still growing rapidly worldwide. While kitesurfing you can reach speeds of up to 70km/h and jump a whooping 10 meters high and around 100 meters far! All of this while attempting to do tricks mid-air!
material
Hardboard has a good range of kites, boards, and lines so every kiter will be satisfied. Small 6m kites for high wind days and large 12m kites for those days the wind is a little less, and everything in between.
Because kites are quite fragile it is important to take care of them in the best way possible to enjoy them as long as we can!
transport
All kitesurf materials usially fit into our HB car, the SuSi.
If the surfing group gets really big we sometimes also take one of our two trailers or the HB bus, the Hulk.
instruction
We want you to learn how to kitesurf the right way! Together with Antix, a kitesurf school in Friesland, we organize kite instruction at least 2 times a year.
During our introduction and instruction weekends, you can get your kite instruction with Antix.
To be able to kitesurf with Hardboard you need to be KITE INDEPENDENT! More on this later!
surf together
Can you imagine anything more fun than kitesurfing by yourself?!
Exactly, kitesurfing together :) Though kitesurfing is an individual sport, that doesn’t mean you have to do it alone!
By going together you can encourage each other to learn new things, share the transportation costs and it is much more fun!
Don’t hesitate to send a message in a WhatsApp group or text people personally, they will like that!!
Kite independence
Though you don’t have to have any kitesurfing experience to start kitesurfing with Hardboard, there are some safety measures in place to ensure your well-being and to protect our materials. This is because kitesurfing can be dangerous if you don’t know how to handle your materials the right way.
Our Kite Independence system works with kite-PROS, kite independence levels, and external instruction. All of these things will be explained here.
Kite-pros
Hardboard has a select group of advanced kite surfers who by the FlyHigh Committee are appointed to be kite-pro.
They are able to watch not only their own but also other people’s kite surfing behavior while surfing.
As you can see in the table below, as a kite-BASIC, you need a kite-pro with you on a surfing day to be able to rent the Hardboard kite materials. The kite-pros can help you pick out suitable materials and give you the insights to eventually be able to do everything on your own.
kite independence system
Hardboard uses the following levels to determine the independence and skill level of a kiter. When starting out you have no level.
To become a kite-BASIC1 you have to get instruction at an external kitesurf school. Hardboard has close ties with the kite surf school Antix. During our introduction and instruction weekends, we organize kite instructions with them. After this instruction, the kite-pros will decide if you have learned enough to become a kite-BASIC1.
As you progress as a kite-BASIC1, you’ll eventually become a kite-BASIC2, until the kite-PROS have seen proof that you are worthy of becoming kite-INDEPENDENT.
Do even more cool tricks and jumps and you might even become kite-ADVANCED or a kite-PRO yourself!
Want to come on a kitesurfing day?!
Send an email to windsurfen@dwv…* or keep an eye on the surfing days agenda because the upcoming surfing days will be posted there!
*extend to dwvhardboard.nl (to avoid spam)
