this is the right place.

www.lasoo.com.au/category/toys-games.html?categories.lvl0=lvl0Toys+%26+Games&level=0

ohh I didn't realise there was a difference.. maybe the kyters here would be more useful!

Go to a local School buddy!

Pretty sure QLD- the land of sun and surf would have quite a few schools

As for trainers you can get one on the buy & sell section for about $180 all the way to $350 for a 3 line, 3 metre foil. or $450 for a SLE/ Hybrid kite (The ones you pump up that most kiters use. The foils are self inflating like a parachute or a paraglider's wing.)

I would give you mine but I just bought it and whilst I have outgrown it, it's good for getting mates into the sport... Sorry.

You dont need to waste money on a trainer kite, we only spend around 15-20minutes on a trainer kite at the beginning of the first lesson, then straight onto the big kite. Big kites fly a lot slower and much easier to control. Save $200 and go for a lesson straight up, learn all the basics right away. If you feel you need to have a trainer kite to develop more basic piloting skills after the lesson, then buy one. But 9/10 cases, you wont.

RichHobbies said...

Not sure where to post anything as i am new to this forum, i was just wondering if anyone had a spare and would sell a 2m practice kite I have heard they are called Thanks.

dude you can also hire a trainer kite from kitepower. That what i did for a week before my first lesson. I kinda wish i bought one though...

Hi Peeps,

A good trainer kite is certainly not essential to learn kiteboarding, but it is a huge help and is worth it's weight in gold.

Anyone saying trainers are a waste are sorely mistaken or have never owned a trainer kite. We sell heaps of trainer kites every year, not the cheap crappy 2-line trainers, high quality 3-line kites. The basics can be learned in minutes on a trainer kite yes, but it is more than learning how to steer and understand the wind window, if that were the case, then people would buy, use and resell their trainers and they would be everywhere.

The idea with the trainer kite is to fly it repeatedly and develop unconscious control of the kite, ie, fly it so much that you can fly it without watching it and "Feel" the kite. I reckon it is good to fly for about 10 hours and then think about taking lessons.

It is an indisputable fact that learners with extensive trainer kite experience advance at about twice the pace of people without trainer experience. So the money you use to buy the kite is returned to you in more rapid progress and less lessons (some schools don't want this ;-).

Trainer kites are fun to fly on the beach in light winds, especially if you have a mate with one also, then the fun really begins. Once you begin kiting on big gear, the Trainer is perfect for the kids, the missus, or the mates who all of a sudden seem keen to fly your big rig.

If Trainers are so unneccessary or hold so little value to learning, why are there usually none available second hand? Why is it that although we offer and have offered to buy back trainers against a full size kite price, in all the years we have bought back none?, not one traded in, in 5 years! The answer is most people keep them because they are fun and are worth more as a kite to fly than the money you can sell them for. There are 2 on Seabreeze Buy and Sell in the whole country.

Trainers are great, you don't need them, but they help immeasurably. There is a lot of mis information on these forums, read enough and get soem experience and you'll start to see through the BS.

Welcome to the sport!

DM