The Kiteboarding Manual: The Essential Guide for Beginners and Improvers (2nd Edition)

This is a guide for aspiring and improving kiteboarders, covering theory, starting, competing, and instructing. The book will cover kiteboarding’s origins and recent popularity, including its inclusion in the 2024 Paris Olympics. This guide will go into kite physics, weather principles, tides, currents, waves, and wind vs tide. It will also dive into land-based skills like LEI rigging, assembly, launching, and body-dragging. Alongside this are board skills like going upwind, riding toeside, turning, and transitioning. It will cover wave riding, tacking, gybing, and speed kiting, foiling, latest kit, techniques, and tips for higher jumps. Finally, it contains step-by-step photo sequences for basic moves and advanced tricks.

(This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)