9/22/2023 0 Comments Learn kitesurf![]() The power exerted by even this small kite was kind of inspiring, in a terrifying way, and I wondered how I would ever feel in control. With Byron holding firmly onto my harness (negating my fear of blowing away) I gained an understanding of how to use the safety systems, power and depower the kite, how to hold the kite in one position (more or less!) and how to launch and dump the kite. After we had nailed the basic understanding of flying the kite it was on to a 4m North to practice flying down on the shoreline. Fears of blowing away aside, trying to get a handle on just the training kite was an experience in 30 knots of wind – but we managed! Thanks to the expert instruction of Byron from Windtown, we soon understood the wind window, the power zone and all the ins and outs of kite flying. ![]() On arrival at the modern Windtown hotel in Langebaan, the wind was blowing an absolute hoolie but we were off to the beach to give it a go in any case. Trying to contain the laughter, she explains how for weeks after that rare sunshiny day in the UK, I would close all the windows and all the doors at the slightest gust of wind with fear that someone or something I loved would blow away.īut living in Cape Town, it’s a shame really that I can’t kitesurf so taking the job at Planet was the push I needed to get off my butt and head up the coast to the expansive flat water lagoon of Langebaan to try my hand at learning to kitesurf. My mom recalls the story over many a dinner party. I distinctly remember standing on the beach, myself not much taller than my dad’s knees, watching with devastation as my tiny diamond kite was taken by a sudden gust and jumped and skipped across the waves – out into the unknown. To be honest, I’m not afraid of much, but for a large portion of my childhood, kites, and the wind for that matter, had terrified me. ![]() But when I recently took a job at Planet Kitesurf Holidays I knew I would have to change up my harness and start kitesurfing! I’ve always been a water baby, I normally take to the seas harnessed into the trapeze lines of a hobie cat. Janine from Planet Kitesurf had to overcome a harrowing (sort of) childhood kite-related experience before she learnt in Langebaan earlier this year. ![]() Learning to kite is an experience nobody ever forgets. ![]()
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