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Landboarding
groupKite Landboarding cracks onto the scene, It’s new
it’s wild. Combining foil kite flying skills and the board
skills of the kite surfer, kite landboarding offers a new dimension
in power kite sports.
Kite
landboarding is a reasonably new sport within the power kite
discipline and we are now offering a complete 1-day training
package for interested students. You'll start off learning about
the equipment, safety and where you can ride and then we'll
be out onto the field to begin learning to fly the kites.
 What
is it?
The
kite landboard is a four wheeled board which when combined with
a kite allows the rider to blast along the beaches or pull off
those wicked kite surfing tricks, but like with all power kite
sports it needs to be properly taught.
How
do I learn?
Extreme
Sports Cafe can provide you with your first steps in this exciting
new kite sport. Teaching you first how to handle power of the
kite then how to combine it with your board for your first landboarding
experience. Safety as with all the our courses will be paramount
and all kite landboarding course are run to the new IKO standards
for kite landboarding.
Equipment
All
equipment for this one day course will be provided for you by
the Extreme Sports Cafe, just bring your shades and get ready
to ride.
Once you have completed your course at Extreme Sports Cafe why
not join the inlanders club and keep riding every weekend throughout
the year. The club provides kit rental, insurance and a whole
load trips and parties, just ask for details. Day
Course £95
Price
includes all equipment and insurances.
Half
way through the first day we'll get the boards out and do short
runs illustrating how they are controlled and stopped. You'll
then put the kite and board together for the first time to take
runs across the field.
Later
is it all about honing your landboarding skills and developing
control of both the kite and the board together. You will learn
to do turns, emergency stops and even how to go uphill.
How
to book: Extreme Sports Cafe's Kite landboarding courses
are not bookable online. Please contact
us to arrange something with you.
Landboarding
2-day beginner course £190
This is the full kite landboarding course that we offer, which
is designed to make you self-sufficient. The course is two days
long and will cover a range of subjects, though the majority
is spent flying, developing your new kite and board skills.
 Over
the two days of this kite landboarding course, our instructors
will pass on the benefit of their experience to keep
you safe and get you confident and self-sufficient as
a rider.
Each
day is about 6 hours long and is broken up into two
lessons, most of which is hands on practical learning.
We
start off introducing the sport, teaching you the safety
elements of kite landboarding when and where you can
land board, the equipment and how to set it all up and
some basic physics [don't worry it is all practical
and to do with how objects create wind shadows, up draft
and shear - very useful unless you have a 20 mile patch
of desert with nothing in it!]
After
that it's out onto the grass where we put theory into
practice. We start by honing your kite skills, learning
how to control the kite and generate power. We start
out on a bar as this is what most kite boarders use
but also show you how handles work as well as some people
prefer these for control.
Finally
we do the first runs with the board and teach you how
to start and stop safely.
The second day is all about building up your skills.
We get you to take longer runs, teach you to ride both
directions and how to turn. As you start going further
you'll need to learn how to pass and the "rules
of the road".
We
don't need much wind as land kites only take about 5
knots to get going, however all isn't lost as we have
some other modules we can do until the wind comes in.
After
this course, we encourage all students to join the Power
Kite Sorts Federation who will provide you with insurance
and then you can get out at various places around the
country and go landboarding.
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How
to book: Extreme Sports Cafe's Kite landboarding courses
are not bookable online. Please contact
us to arrange something with you.
Extreme
Sports Cafe can introduce you to the best instructors and equipment
in this exciting and rapidly growing sport. GET
IN TOUCH WITH US NOW TO START YOUR LANDBOARDING ADVENTURE…
For
a personal consultation, or to book a kite landboarding course:give
us a call, or log on for a live web chat...
For
a kite or kite landboarding information pack please complete
our On-line Enquiry form.
Alternatively,
drop us an email: info@extremesportscafe.com
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