Kitesurfing has benefited from the decline of windsurfing and the fact that the factories used in the windsurf industry could easily be converted to manufacture kitesurfing equipment. Kitesurfing is often seen as an extension to windsurfing and they are always compared to each other. Kitesurfing is more of a high visual impact sport, meaning that visually it is more attracting.

As a result, there is a huge demand for kite surfing holidays. One thing that is clear nowadays is that you must take a minimum amount of lessons to begin kite surfing, hence this demand for kitesurfing holidays. At the beginning of kite surfing, a lot of windsurfers taught themselves kitesurfing. A lot of accidents happened due to lack of knowledge of basic safety procedures. Since then, courses have been established and the whole industry is regulated.

Nowadays, going on a kite surfing holiday to learn this exhilarating sport will give you many advantages. First thing is that you get on a proper course. During your kite surfing holiday, you will be taught the basics of how to rig, launch and land a kite safely, then moving on to the use of a proper kite and body dragging on the beach and then on the water, and finally getting started on the board.

The main advantage of a kite surfing holiday is that you travel to a place where the wind is constant and ideal for it. Unlike having to wait for the right conditions at your local break. You will find it so much easier to learn in a warm ocean with waist deep water and constant 15 knots of wind during, compared to learning on an overcast, cold beach with gusty winds and plenty of people in the surrounding beach.

Surfing holidays are now being combined with kitesurf trips as the two sports complement each other perfectly. You can spend a week on a boat, following the wind and discovering new spots each and everyday. You can enjoy exhilarating downwind sessions without the need to struggle back upwind which will keep you smiling the whole night. You will be discovering little sand banks to throw big moves, surfing perfect reefs, with the assistance dinghy always close by so you do not have to worry when you break your gear. Late afternoon can be spent snorkelling or fishing a nice fish for the night supper, spending the evening story telling and massaging your aching muscles!