Kite Zone Pranburi Blog – Kite surfing School in Hua Hin Thailand

Hey Guy’s

A little bit of a different flavour to our daily blog today, rather than the usual wind and wave talk, were featuring a group of local kid’s from Pak Nam Pran (Pranburi), who over the past ten months or so, have been regular users of our handle-pass training swing at the front of Kitezone.

Swinging out over the water.....no fear at this age!!

There are three young local lads that have always shown keen interest in kitesurfing and they often sit and watch the guy’s out on the water as they pop their latest tricks, while thinking that one day…..maybe……..if there really lucky!!

Well as  from yesterday, there one step closer to making that dream of cruising around the ocean and boosting into the air, a reality…….as there now the proud owners of a brand new Squirt 1m trainer kite each, kindly donated by Willy the boss at Kitezone.

Dodging the debris washed up by the flood water from Bangkok, we need a good high tide to wash the last of it away!

Who know’s maybe the next Hadlow or Yo in the making….we plan to keep you posted on there progress and maybe we could be seeing one or two of these guy’s handle passing on the water soon!!

Great to see the kids getting involved in something that is keeping them fit and active, while at the same time, having fun…..no X-Box for these guy’s!!

OK! I’m sure your all keen to know what the winds been doing here today, well…… I’m happy to say, that is been blowing around 17-22 knots all blooming day!!

Here’s a few shots from today’s action!!

Pop’s carving it up!

Manu chewing up the chop, fully lit on the 12m.

Manu sporting the tea pot look!    styling!

Alex,   Happy to be back on the water after four months!

the wind is well and truly here guy’s, so why aren’t you!!

Finally! Hua Hin gets a Cable wakeboard park, comes equipped with a full cable system from Rixen, with 6 towers, short ropes and an 11 meter height this park is sure to be one of the best parks in Thailand for the future.

With a tentative opening date of december 1st and the obstacles going in this week, we are all very excited for what is about to bring joy to the life of every kiter in pranburi on a no wind day.  We had a meeting there today to organize a partnership between the school here in pak Nam Pran and the park, they have agreed to work together on a close basis and the possibility of a wind or no wind style event is also on the horizon.

Rixen arrives today with pre built obstacles from germany and will spend the next week setting them up, again i was lucky enough to be invited to try out the new park and obstacles this coming saturday along with a load of Thai riders form the Thai Wake park (who will also be running the pro shop on site)

The crossover of cable wakeboarding and Wake style Kitesurfing is quite huge, with more and more people choosing boots over straps, rails popping up on the beaches and events such as windornowind, we may see the start of a new revolution in Kiteboarding, lets face it, what you gonna do when there is no wind and a cable park right on your doorstep………..HIT THE CABLE!

Watch this space for more updates and info on the new wake park, ill post some pics of it in action after Saturdays session at the Hua Hin cable Park

riding 12pm-5pm avg 17.5 gusts 25 kts.

the wind’s back! and the waves too. sunshine, wind and waves. mmmmm!!!…..

Kiters out riding 11am-5pm avg 17 gusts 22.

another day on the 9s!
but a nicer day today – started at a sensible time like 10.30 rather than howling at 8am like the last 3 days. waves still big, current still strong in front of the shop but manageable upwind a couple of hundred metres. seems to be an area about a hundred metres out of beautiful fast 2m high rolling waves. they look scary as you get close but never break on you and give you a big push if you get it right.
more of the same tomorrow!

Pranburi Perfect!