Wind & Kiteboarding

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we're going to talk about the wind that you want and appropriate conditions for kitesurfing. We have three different types, high, medium and low wind. Low wind is pretty much 10 to 15 miles an hour and knots and anything below that isn't really going to be worth pumping up your kite and wasting your time setting up all your gear. 15 to 20 that's the solid middle range wind right there. It?s perfect for beginners, start-up lessons or just going out to have a perfect session. I mean once you have 15 knots, you know you're going to be really well powered on something like a 12 meter kite depending on your size. Above 20 knots, that's a solid phrase in this sport. Life begins at 20 knots because you know after 20 knots, you're going to be going out there and you are going to be lit definitely a lot of power on your kite and your jumps can be in excess of 30 feet and you can get hang time that you wouldn't even believe with the kites these days. Different ways to check out the wind is you want to look for things like whitecaps, you can pull the whole sand, watch the breeze, you can see that we obviously don't have much right now. Or you don't want to do that whole golfer thing where you lick your finger doesn't really work. You want to get a little bit more of affirmed report. That whole thing kind of kooky."