A few padded up sessions make sense. Once you are riding one of the critical skills to learn is using the power to break out the rear wheels to slide and scrub off speed. Eventually you will use this for turning and sliding to toeside. Being padded may make the committment required to heelside a li...

Get some good knee pads. In a gust an experienced rider will be able to anticipate the power and control the line tension by sheeting out and turning towards the kite or sliding. The beginner option for being overpowered with the board at 90° to the lines is to roll onto the knees and do a knee scu...

Definitely a smart minimalist start. For a stretch of about 6 years, I used a single 10m kite for 90% of my riding on both water and snow. Thanks! Any tips other than to be a bit more careful with a LEI on land/snow? The Peak4 in 5 meter size is GREAT for landboarding. Highly recommended. Learn to ...

Superkiteday group has a lot of snowkite and landboard videos on youtube, and group is on facebook. Maybe there you might get some contacts. Also is there a dutch forum on FB? If I were to start again kiteing on hard soil I would take kite like Peak4 as a trainer, mountain and landboard usage. It i...

Hi Taron ! Your First post ; welcome to KF !! :thumb: Don't purchase anything ; seek-out , and talk to the locals First , because they know the weather in your aria, and can match you to the correct size kites for water, land and snow. The land-boards and buggy's , are a Blast ; you'll like it as w...

tldr: can you use an LEI kite on land? Hi guys! I'm a complete newbie that recently started his first lessons to learn kitesurfing and so far I did 2 lessons and I still love it. One of the few changes in my life --other than those lessons-- are that I am moving further away from the water into the ...