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Infinity Sport Kitesurfing is proud to celebrate a remarkable milestone — our founder and head coach, Pawel Baran, has officially become a BKSA Advanced Coach in the Big Air discipline. This achievement marks another step in a lifelong journey of dedication, passion, and excellence across over 20 years in watersports.

About to take your very first kiteboarding lessons with an accredited kitesurfing school soon? Here are 6 videos you may find useful to watch before you do. You can also read our guide of what to expect on your first kitesurfing lesson here.

The board start, also known as water start, is one of the most important moments in kiteboarding. Learn how to master the art of getting up on the kite board. The kiteboarding water start requires time and training, but you’ll rapidly learn how to angle your feet before being pulled by a kite in the wind.

Sea breezes are great for kitesurfing due to their directional nature from sea towards the land (onshore conditions). But what is a sea breeze? When do they occur? Sea breezes occur during hot, summer days because of the unequal heating rates of land and water. During the day, the land surface heats up faster than the water surface.

In this post we will have a look at winds that are good for kitesurfing (and those that are not). We do this now as many of you will be flying your trainer kite at the beach and so you can start to notice the effects we’re talking about now when you’re out flying your kite, so when you’re ready to start kitesurfing it will become a little more automatic.

For most people it takes around 15 to 20 hours of tuition to actually be kitesurfing — riding properly, holding your position upwind, and getting back to where you started without the walk of shame. You will be on the board well before that. The standard beginner course is three two-hour sessions, and most people get up and have their first moments riding by the end of it. But being up on the board for a few seconds is not the same as kitesurfing — and knowing that difference before you start is what stops the middle of the journey feeling like a plateau. How quickly you get there depends on your fitness and coordination, how consistent the wind and water are, how often you can get out — and, more than anything else, the quality of your instruction.

How to body drag upwind (and body dragging in general) is one of the most important techniques you should master in kiteboarding. It will allow you to recover the board and, in extreme cases, it might save your life, too. Kiteboarding beginners must learn how to body drag themselves back to the beach using the kite if an emergency occurs. In the early rides, it’s easy to lose a board.

Here are 5 common mistakes when launching your kite, followed by our visual guide to safely launching your kitesurfing kite.