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Explore the best kitesurfing spots in Dubai with tips on wind conditions, gear, and safety
Dubai, with its futuristic skyline, vast desert landscapes, and luxurious lifestyle, is a place most people associate with opulence and adventure. But there's another side to this city that the authorities have pushed to attention: the kitesurfing scene. While the…
Tips
Embark on a journey of discovery and adventure: unveiling the best beginner kitesurfing spots worldwide, where learning to ride is just the beginning
Learning to kitesurf is an adventure in itself, but choosing the right destination can make the experience even more rewarding. The best kitesurfing spots for beginners offer much more than ideal wind conditions, shallow waters, and professional kite schools. They…
Safety
Step by step the must-to-know technique you need to know when kitesurfing, facing an emergency
As fun as it is, kitesurfing demands a thorough understanding of safety procedures, particularly regarding kitesurfing self rescue techniques. Being prepared for unexpected situations while out on the water can mean the difference between a minor inconvenience and a potentially…
Safety
When it comes to choosing your new harness a lot of factors are involved, making the right choice can make your kiting experience great…
Kitesurfing as we all know requires a great deal of physical exertion and skill, and the harness plays a fundamental role since it connects to the kite and rider’s body.
Safety
Retrieve your kiteboard after falling with confidence and in the shortest time following this advice.
If you want to be an independent rider after finishing your kite course, mastering the body-drag upwind is fundamental. If we analyze what being independent means, we can roughly resume it with: being able to set your kite, launch, and…
Safety
Fundamental for the rider's safety: the origins, the design, how it works, and the emergency systems of the kitesurf control bar.
The kitesurf control bar is arguably the most important part of the kiteboarding gear concerning safety and control of the kite’s power. Any kiter obviously knows its functions: in connection with the kite lines, it controls the steering direction of…
Tips
Looking towards your first or next wetsuit, key points you need to keep in mind while choosing.
Wetsuits are a fundamental part of the kiter equipment when we kitesurf whether you are an expert or a beginner. There are lots of choices for kiteboarding wetsuits on sale, both in models, prices (from 200 USD up to 600/700…
Tips
Very often we overlook the pads regulations on our twin tip boards, losing a lot of advantages they can offer.
Intuitively those settings on our kiteboard twin tip seem to be necessary to adjust the dimension of the stance to a comfortable position for our body size.
Tips
In any kitesurfing environment, it is common to hear about a kite’s drift performance. But what is it all about? And how does the…
Very simply, the drift is the ability of a kite to keep flying when the tension of the lines momentarily disappears (normally when the lines get a bit of slack).
Tips
It's always a source of concern about managing the car keys once we reach our favorite kitesurfing spot. Let's see how we can solve…
Whether reaching exotic tropical spots or closer to home and familiar ones, kitesurfers often get to their destination using a car. And at this point, every one of us faces the challenge of managing the car keys while out on…
Tips
Looking for your new kitesurf surfboard? Here some tips to make the best choice possible for you.
In the recent years wave boards have become mainstream in the kitesurfing world. At a certain point in the riding experience, we find ourselves dwelling with a simple yet not easy question: which surfboard should I buy?
Tips
Finding a present for your kitesurfer relative or friend can be rather tricky, but this post might help you out!
That time of the year arrives when friends and families start thinking about exchanging presents, and when it comes to purchasing a gift for kitesurfers, things can become tricky.
Tips
The high costs of new wings and bars force many kiters to consider second-hand gear. How to buy quality equipment at a good price…
A new kite is a source of joy for riders. The need to purchase a new piece of gear involves everyone: from the beginner to the expert kiter.
Safety
You should always bring with you a safety kite line knife when you go out on the water: here is why.
The kitesurf hook knife is an important safety tool every kiter should have while out in the water. It is a mandatory precaution that could save your life in emergencies, and too often during entry kitesurfing lessons it is not…
Curiosities
High temperature, low temperature, humidity, or pressure… Do they really matter when we kite?
A lot of time you can hear on a kitesurfing spot comments like: “today the air is full of humidity, so it is heavier and the wind pushes more” or “on the Red Sea the density of the air is…
Safety
Have you ever considered these effects on the Wind Window behavior while kitesurfing?
Every kiter, approaching a professional kitesurfing lesson, will be introduced to the wind window. This well-known concept is fundamental for the understanding of how to handle a power kite and probably 99% of kiters are familiar with it.
Tips
The kitesurf session is over: how do you normally fold your kite? Here you can find different ways of folding the kite and a…
How to fold a kite is normally taught in the very first lessons during the kitesurfing training, often is a practice that any kiter giver for granted, but in reality, there are few different ways to fold a kite and…
Tips
On any kitesurfing beach, you can see many examples of how to correctly or incorrectly give assistance in the kite launch. A few tips…
It is true that nowadays many experienced riders even opt for self-launching their kite, but in difficult conditions or for not experts, assisted launch it is a must.
Safety
Kitesurf has a lot to do with aerodynamics and kite shape behavior, let’s find how.
Being kitesurfing one of the fastest-growing sports, kitesurf producers have been challenging each other on the market with more and more innovation and possible product choices. The result is that there are so many types of kites out there that…
Travel
Any period of the year has its own kitesurf corner
Many people often ask me where is the best place to go kiting at a particular month of the year. Since there's a big choice of kitesurfing spots for every moment, I decided to create a short list with some…
Safety
One of the most common mistake among beginners: a must to avoid it
Many times it has happened to me to see kitesurfers stalling their kites with sad or even disastrous results.
Safety
The inner danger in having knots on our kite lines and how to properly get rid of them
You do not know how, nor why. Knots on your lines are like mushrooms: they seem to appear from nowhere.
Reviews
There are various line managers on the market, let's deep into a couple of them with quite different concepts.
Probably most of the kiters have already seen these kind of devices, used to manage the lines. They promise to make the boring line connection process easier and faster, but is it true?
Safety
Tips to assess if the weather is fit for our incoming kite session.
Imagine yourself enjoying a kitesurfing session when the weather suddenly changes, and you are not sure if a storm is coming, the wind is changing, or it's just some clouds that will not impact any of your kitesurfing conditions. Obviously…
Training
Kitesurfer's Physical Training is the best way to enjoy the sport at best
Kitesurfing is an exciting, adrenaline-pumping and shape-building sport that is one of the fastest growing in the world. It was once considered a niche extreme sport, but it can really be practiced by anyone nowadays. Learning how to kiteboard has…
Tips
How the length of lines influences the behavior and the response of the kite.
The line length of your kitesurfing gear is a critical factor determining how a kite will fly and produce power. Knowing how to manipulate the line length can be very useful to obtain the kite's best performance in a particular…
Curiosities
Riding in the night can be easy and fun with the right precautions.
In my previous post I talked about a very special full moon kitesurfing experience, and I would like for you to also take advantage of a full moon whenever you have a chance. I had many experiences of night kitesurfing…
Curiosities
So many emotions in experimenting the magic of kitesurfing under the full moon
I’ll always be grateful to my great friend Carlo Macchiarulo, the owner of IL PIRATA resort in Pemba and founder of Kitesurfing Mozambique, a real Mozambique’s kiteboarding pioneer, who last summer organized the best full moon kitesurf session I have…
Tips
10 Tips on How to Give Your Kitesurfing Equipment a Double Lifespan (After Kitesurfing Session)
In the previous post we talked about some maintenance tips before a kite session in order to maximize your kitesurfing gear’s lifespan.
Tips
10 Tips on How to Give Your Kitesurfing Equipment a Double Lifespan (Before the Kitesurf Session)
We have to keep in mind that our kitesurfing gear is very sensitive towards how we treat it. Often kitesurfers don’t pay much attention to the basic procedures of their kite gear maintenance, preventing it from staying in perfect shape…
Safety
First easy tip to improve your kitesurfing safety: avoid any type of board leash
Using a kiteboard leash is a bad habit still practiced by a good number of beginner (and not only) kitesurfers, and the level of danger it bears is often underestimated.
Tips
Part 2: Tips on Choosing The Best Kiteboarding Gear for You. Tips on Choosing the Right Equipment Suitable For You: Harness and Kiteboard
In Part 1 of this post we talked about how long your kitesurfing gear will last and when you should be ready to buy your first kiteboarding equipment .
Tips
Part 1: How long will my kiteboarding gear last? When am I ready to buy my first kitesurfing gear?
Kiteboarding is definitely not a cheap sport, at least in regards to buying a new gear. In fact, to start riding on the water involves investing some money (it’s not like buying a pair of sneakers if you want to…
Tips
Kitesurfing is one of the sports which to the outsider look extreme and inaccessible. But it’s also the reason that a lot of kiters…
You may be surprised to hear that you only need a basic level of fitness to get into kitesurfing and many take it up with no previous experience of watersports.
Tips
Let’s start from the basics: you are just fresh out of a kitesurfing course and you want to start your independent session. Let’s refresh…
Often, we can see in our kite spot several kitesurfers who aren’t trained enough and keep repeating mistakes in the launch/landing stage, ending in unsound and clumsy failures. These can raise hilarity at the moment, but they should be considered…
Tips
Being afraid of kitesurfing is normal, and the fear fades when you combine a good instructor, sensible conditions and plenty of kite-control practice before…
Afraid of kitesurfing? An instructor explains how to beat the fear, what injury data really shows, and which lessons, gear and winds keep you safe.
Tips
How not to end up at the check-in counter with high bills for our kitesurfing equipment
Your trip to a tropical paradise is booked, and you are excited about all the fun you will have kiting and relaxing... But then you realize you are not traveling alone… you have your kitesurfing equipment with you! That also…
Safety
8 Simple Tips to Safe Kiteboarding: Learn how to prevent accidents to you and others.
This is my first post on a brand new blog, and there is no better topic to start with than SAFETY.
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