Try before you buy, Not sure if Kitesurfing is going to be your thing? or your booked up for lessons and you want to make a head start to maximise on your lesson time. This package give you not only the essential kite flying skills but the DVD will give you all the theoretical skills you will be covering on your course, be it BKSA or IKO.
Fat Sands Progression Beginner Kiteboading Instructional DVD 2nd edition 2009:
Professional kitesurfers show each step of the learning process in a clear, concise, and easily replicated way. From setting up the kite to your first jump, Progression: Beginner safely demonstrates easy-to-learn ways to master kitesurfing.
As a fully authorised IKO instructional DVD, you can rest assured that Progression: Beginner will enhance the learning process, being the perfect companion to professional instruction.
With over 2 1/2 hours of meticulous instruction, slow motion run-throughs, and common problem analysis, you’ll progress to intermediate level in no time! Don’t expect to watch the DVD from start to finish each time, just focus in on the sections that you are currently looking to improve upon.
So many people learn to kite and then struggle for months or even years trying to move on and progress through to the areas of kitesurfing that excite people in the first place. With this DVD we aim to get you riding confidently, staying upwind, carving turns and jumping into the sky. Then you’ll be ready for the next steps – Kiteboarding Progression: Intermediate. Progression: Beginner covers all the topics covered in an IKO level 1-3 courses, which are the fundamental aspects of kitesurfing - whatever course you took.
The first half of the DVD is really there to give you a refresher of the core aspects of kitesurfing, which can be so easily forgotten weeks after your lessons. Understanding these concepts, the terminology and safety aspects are key to gaining the confidence which will speed up your learning process.
The second half of the DVD are the main chapters which you will come back to over and over to work on the parts you are struggling with, be that Waterstarts (aka board starts), general riding (eg. stance, edging and staying up wind), through to changing direction and finally getting you airbourne with your first jumps.
The Chapters are:
Location and Conditions
Equipment and Terminology
Kite Setup
Launching and Landing
Kite Flying
Body Dragging
Re-launch and Self Rescue
Waterstart
Riding and Staying Upwind
Change of Direction
Jumping
DVD Menus
You should think of any Progression DVD as a reference guide, you might watch it from start to finish on your first viewing but really its about jumping into the section that you are currently struggling with and getting the help you need. Each chapter is broken down in its various progressions and our in-depth DVD menus allow you to quickly find the exact part of a chapter that you want to view.
The full 2 1/2 hours of Progression: Beginner is available with narration in 7 languages. You'll also find all the DVD menus translated so you navigate to the section you want with no misunderstanding.
The Nipper would also be ideal in you were going on kitesurfing lessons to give you the basics of kite surfing and or kite boarding.
The Nippair is a new fun kite from PKD.
It has 4 lines and comes with a special bar that clips apart to make seperate handles. Easy to fly - available in 1.0m and 1.5m sizes. This package is supplied with the 1.5m version.
Introduction model is in a "special edition" camouflage printed fabric.