Hey All - I know there are plenty of high schools that offer surfing as a subject, but does anybody know of a high school that offers kitesurfing as a subject?

If such a school were to exist, what do you think would be some subject areas that could be integrated/ taught within the context of kitesurfing?

Currently I am thinking:

IKO qualification
Assistant instructor, so competent riders can become peer coaches/ ambassadors
Design and technology
Media/ visual arts
PE
Health
Meteorology
First Aid
Community service component
Environmental Science
Physics

My purpose for asking is that I am putting forward a proposal to the principal (my boss) at my school tomorrow, and was just doing a last minute check to see if there was a currently operating school-based kitesurfing course I might take a few ideas from!

Cheers

Chris

Don't do it!! the waters are busy enough as it is

Chris_M said...
Thanks Trigger and Ozone, AKWA, dont panic, I'm only looking to recruit between 5 -10 students in the first year, and I'm all the way over in NZ! Also, students of my course will be well briefed in how to give way correctly so I don't think you need to worry about being tangled with them any time soon.

haha cheers. I was only joking anyway mate. I actually think it is a brilliant idea and wish it would have been taught when I was in high school.

It could very well bring out some real talent!

Coolum State school in QLD does it, talk to Mike Walker from Kitethrills, he runs it.

"Right of way rules 101"

"Courtesy for GenY - c'mon mate, you too can do it 200"

Carantoc said...
I never realised kiters had been to school

Is the aim to educate kiters or to turn the educated into kiters ?

How about guest lectures from KOTP and Mark_australia on any subject of their choosing ??

I would pay good money to see that

Carantoc said...
I never realised kiters had been to school

Is the aim to educate kiters or to turn the educated into kiters ?

How about guest lectures from KOTP and Mark_australia on any subject of their choosing ??

ha ha ha ha i can see it now............

professor Mark-australia "and to days lesson is How to not become a poo stirring
disruptive little troll on seabreeze"

professor KOTP "and as the big red ball of flaming froth rises thr the sky i'm been sent here to edumacate ya (by the WA correction center parole board)
on how to poo stir in the ground paratroopers hand bag forum arrrrrrr can somebody
slash me a dragon arrrrrrr"

i just graduated form kawana high on the sunshine coast, we did kiting as a subject there