Maui's North Shore is where modern kiteboarding was proven and pushed in the late '90s, and Kanaha's reliable trades still draw the riders who write the sport's playbook.
Learn to fly a kite off the water where the sport was proven, on Kanaha's reliable trades.
Maui's North Shore is where modern kiteboarding was proven and pushed in the late '90s, and Kanaha's reliable trades still draw the riders who write the sport's playbook.
BirthplaceMeccaHeritageA three-day learn-to-kite course at Kanaha (Kite Beach) on Maui, the trade-wind reach where the sport matured. You progress from kite setup, launch, land and safety on land, into water relaunch, body-dragging and waterstart, then riding upwind on the board — all with the instructor on the water alongside you using radio-helmet coaching, and all kite gear, harness and helmet supplied. Run by Maui's oldest water-sports school (operating since 1985).
A multi-day, instructor-on-the-water course at Kanaha, one of the world's defining kite spots, with the rider learning in a busy community of kiters.
As Maui's oldest and largest water sports school, HST keeps an instructor in the water beside each student, and reviewers repeatedly single out its patient, attentive teaching for first-time kitesurfers.
IKO Kiteboarder Level 3 / IKO Instructor Certification · Certifying body: IKO (International Kiteboarding Organization)
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