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Now using wireless intercom helmets for real time coaching
Kitesurf Thailands kitesurfing/kiteboarding school offer high quality lessons with a maximum of 2 students per one teacher, this is very special as most other schools will have one teacher teaching groups of 4 students or even more resulting in lots of lost time for a student whilst waiting to use the kite. Private lessons at kitesurf thailand are also available.

Kitesurf Thailand now uses special “Real Time Coaching” using intercom helmets on both students, this allows us to deliver timely instruction in a calm controlled manner, our students feel they get much better tuition whilst feeling safer and more comfortable., In times of stress when a student can't relaunch a crashed kite or needs to self rescue, we can offer sound advice in a calm voice to "talk the student through" the issue. 9 times out of 10, we can return them to the beach and include the mishap as part of the lesson, whilst reassuring the student and teaching them to handle difficult and potentially dangerous situations. Best of all, we don't have to get into the water and merely walk along the beach watching and adding advice and tuition. We rarely ever get panicked students now as we can reassure them easily and calmly so they can remain in control and keep thinking logically and calmly. 

The fact that we have direct contact with the student at all times regardless of whether they are in the water or half way up the beach  is a massive time saver, and a huge boost to the quality of our lessons

For kitesurf thailand's lessons the latest and safest Ozone hybrid kites are used. Students only need to let go of the bar and the kite loses it's power totally, these are amazingly safe and easy kites to use, Ozone Kites have 3 different level of kites with a range to suit your needs once your ready to purchase your equipment.

Kitesurf Thailand offers complete beginners a 3 day, 10 hour course. Students have the choice of having semi private lessons (2 students with one teacher) or private lessons.

Rates in THB / Person 1 hour  1st day of discovery 2nd day
body drag technique		 full
3 day course		 custom
optional extra day
Private 1,600B 5,500 THB 5,500THB 16,000THB 5,500THB
Semi Private 1,000B 3,500 THB 3,500 THB 10,000THB 3,500 THB
OUR DAY BY DAY APPROACH
Not everybody needs to do a full 3 day course, people like windsurfers and wakeboarders can usually learn to kitesurf quickly. Some kitesurfing students have already had lessons before elsewhere and don't need to do the whole 3 day course, for these people we offer a day by day approach, they can do any amount of lesson time per day on a day by day basis until they feel confident to go out on their own.


KITETHAILAND'S 3 DAY PROGRAMME


15 minutes of theory is discussed, the different positions you can put the kite in is explained, where you have less or more power, launching and landing positions, safety is discussed.

The teacher then flies the small training kite, (this is a special kite for use on land with very little power and great stability), to the different positions previously discussed in the theory section.

The student is given the training kite and he/she learns to control it and then afterwards the student moves the kite to each of the positions shown by the teacher. For each exercise the teacher first shows the right way of doing it and then the wrong way of doing it, this way students get a clear vision of how to do it the right way.

Students are also shown how to correct mistakes by moving the kite to a certain position, this way students get very good control over everything. All exercises done with the training kite are done later with the kite that we use on the water, this way students will be ready to use our kite for in the water and progress safely and quickly.

Safety issues and some more theory are discussed whilst flying the training kite, in this way students get a clearer understanding of how it all works.

Students are then shown how to set up an Inflatable kite, that's a kite with air tubes in it that will be used in the water on the second day of the course. If we feel a student or students are ready for it then we go into the water with the tube kite on the first day.

Equipment is discussed, students are shown the different types of equipment available, the disadvantages and advantages of certain types of equipment is explained and Safety issues are discussed.

 



Students are taken into the water and the kite is launched far away from shore in waist deep water.

Safety aspects are discussed, for example students are shown that the kite can lose it's power completely by just letting go of the bar.

Then the same exercises that were done the day before with the training kite are now done with the inflatable kite, including how to use the kite to get back to the board or back to shore.

Kitesurf Thailand teaches in shallow water areas at all it's locations, the great thing about having a learning area where you can stand everywhere is that the teacher can be standing right next to you all the time ready to assist you, the teacher is not shouting instructions from a boat as in the case of deep water instruction.  Learning in shallow water makes things so much easier and safer.

During the second part of the lesson start to practise riding the board and safety issues are discussed.

 



Students go over things that they learnt previously and afterwards practice riding the board. Students are then taught how to use the board and kite to go upwind so that they can come back to the same point they started at.

Safety issues are discussed and at the end of the lesson we talk about how to best take care of your equipment and make it last a long time.

 
 
 
 
 
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