Client Profile: David

Kite boarding in London is an understandably attractive sport in the warm summer months; things are easy – glowing sunsets light hours of daytime kite boarding. Wonderful! No surprise people scramble to the kite shops, then.

So consider the beginner who is absolutely smitten by the exciting energy of kite power, that they will brush off 4 degrees Celsius and the odd rain shower, in order to achieve their goal of learning how to kite board on land. Meet: David.

After several lessons, David’s kite control is improving, now at the stage where there is beginning to be a feel for the changeable wind.

As this skill builds and becomes trained, it allows more focus to be allocated to other areas of the challenge, such as monitoring centre of gravity movements, regulating kite traction, adjusting tack directions, and correcting riding posture, amongst others.

A little bit of rain before your lesson is no bad thing, as it softens up the ground for any little spills relating to a wobbly balance. Don’t worry; everybody comes off at some stage!

Better that it happens in a positive environment, with an instructor who can tell you how and why it happened, and what needs to change. Some dampness also makes for great scudding which is great fun, and following our latest lesson David is now expressly confident at this!