Kiteboarding, or kitesurfing, has been named by many media as THE sport of the new Millennium. It combines popular board sports like surfing, snowboarding, and wakeboarding with flying - the dream of mankind! With the power of the wind the riders show spectacular moves and jumps up to 20 meters high and 60 meters wide.
Kiteboarding is an extreme sport that reflects the revolution of our time and represents a new generation of adrenaline junkies with a passion for board sports and the love for freedom of the water and wind. Kiteboarding is extremely spectator friendly, since you don't need to be an expert to be fascinated by the amazing jumps and moves of the riders.

Q: What exactly is kiteboarding?
A: What looks like paragliders with snowboards on their feet, are kiteboarders using the power of the wind to cruise over the water. A large inflatable kite with 30 meter lines attached to a small control bar is hooked into a harness around the waist. A small board attached to the feet allows the rider to cruise along the surface of the ocean, jump high into the sky and do spectacular moves.

Q: Who are the kiteboarders?
A: Kiters are active, adventurous and fun loving people with a passion for action and adrenaline. They come from many similar sports like windsurfing, surfing, wakeboarding, snowboarding, skateboarding and paragliding. Since kiteboarding is easier to learn than windsurfing or snowboarding, even couch potatoes are catching the kite buzz.

Q: Who are the kiteboarders?
A: Kiters are active, adventurous and fun loving people with a passion for action and adrenaline. They come from many similar sports like windsurfing, surfing, wakeboarding, snowboarding, skateboarding and paragliding. Since kiteboarding is easier to learn than windsurfing or snowboarding, even couch potatoes are catching the kite buzz.

Q: What about women in kiteboarding?
A: Women are a rapidly increasing percentage of kiteboarders. In the World Cup, women represent 25% of the total competitors, pretty high for such a young sport. Women excel at kiteboarding because it's a sport of finesse and multi-tasking and not so much of power.

Q: How difficult is kiteboarding to learn?
A: Compared to windsurfing or snowboarding, kiting is easy to learn. But because of the power of the kite, beginners should never try kiteboarding on their own, and always learn in a professional kiteboarding school. In a kiteboarding school the student learns first the power zones of a kite with a 1 square meter trainer kite on land. Later they learn with a bigger kite, body dragging in the water and when they are able to handle the kite, they are ready for the board. Most people are cruising over the water already after a few days and do their first jumps after some weeks.

Q: How dangerous is kiteboarding?
A: If kiteboarding is learned properly in a school and practiced with common sense and caution it is a relatively safe sport. Statistics show that in kiteboarding way less accidents happen, than in Mountain biking or Snowboarding, for example. But a beginner should never try kiteboarding by himself, because a kite can create very strong forces like drag and lift. The danger in kiteboarding is more comparable to paragliding than surfing, for example no one just buys a paraglider and jumps off a mountain without proper instruction.