Do I need to have Board skills before learning to kiteboard?
Learning or tuning up your board skills prior to learning kite-boarding is a smart move, and will allow you to learn and progress faster. If you are planning to ride on the water, get out and practice wakeboarding behind a boat, waverunner, or at a “cable park”. Wakeboarding practice is by far the best way to develop kiteboarding board skills because the boards and stance are so similar. Any type of board skills would be helpful. Surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding, skimboarding, sailboarding (windsurfing ). But… Wakeboarding practice is the best way to get prepared. Be sure to practice riding with your “other foot” in the forward position! We all have a dominant stance. Some of us are naturally more comfortable with the left foot forward ( called “Regular” footed ), and others, like me, are more comfortable with their right foot forward. ( call “goofy” footed ). When you kiteboard on the water, you initially be spending 50% of the time riding with either foot forward. Yup… It’s a
