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10-06-2009, 09:09 PM
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Hey Glenn,
One way to keep your lesson cost down is to bring some skills to the table before you start paying the big bucks on hourly lessons. Do you have great kite skills and a solid understanding of how wind works with a kite? Solve that problem by spending a ton of time flying and mastering a trainer kite. These are inexpensive and can save you in the end by requiring you to take less instruction. Can you ride a wakeboard? Go to a cable park and get some board skills. It is very inexpensive to get hours of experience using a cable system and getting your board skills up to speed. Not to mention the staff that work these parks are more than willing to give you advice for free. Walk into a lesson with good kite skills and good board skills and you should be up and riding in less time than you think and spending less $$$ Walk in with no experience, and the time it will take will be much longer and ultimately more expensive for you. Don't forget to train the brain, the most important asset in kiteboarding. Making smart decisions takes knowledge, so a good ground school going over the theory and fundamentals is a must. A good question you have asked, but I pass it back to you. What are you going to bring to the table???? Or is someone going to have to hold your hand every step of the way. Good luck!
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10-07-2009, 07:07 AM
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I have to agree with everything said above. Especially what Steve-o is saying. I have been teaching for 10 years and my biggest pet peeve would be people telling me that they have been wanting to take lessons for over a year but someone told them that buying a trainer kite was a waste of money. Now your just gonna waste more money learning to fly a kite with power through the school. It's all about feel. A trainer kite teaches you on your own time about the wind window and how and when the kite produces power.
Most students with trainer kite skills and wakeboarding skills progress ten fold compared to someone without these skills. oTHErside Boardsports www.othersideboardsports.com 305.853.9728
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