[miamikiteboarding]

Paul,
5 days , or 4 days , or even 2 days is always better that no days at all under guidance . This is at least just to come up with basic safety directives, and a Lesson plan.
I agree the best experience is the one you learn hands-on while getting lots of lessons logged in. but even though, not all riders have the common sense to put things in order and safe analyses when teaching somebody else. The last 8 years have proven it.
You may feel bored and tired with all the B.S around the various training organizations and who teach better and safer than another, on which i join you, as the best feedback is the one from the students themselves, but i think it's irrelevant to comment about the value of instructor training certification process , since for lots' ot instrcutors it is the only way they can get specific training in a neutral way. whatever organization it may be.
It is going backward in a progression toward safety.

Beside Some have been teaching kitesurfing the wrong way from the very begining ,and they may never know about it, until another instructor make him realize it.
Plus it 's usually the best way to share tips and experiences with other instructors.

now what iI see is everybody suddenly offering the "best insurance , at the best rates, or for the best coverage, ..." when 1 year ago, First flight were the only company offering and locking school kite insurance granted to only 1 Organization at somewhat quite an excessive rate .

and within 3 months i never heard about so many insuracne agents. it 's almost frantic ! hum, there must be a growing market to take over out there ? and the same race has started again... for what i see.


allez, let's be happy with it it , it can only lower the rates we were paying so far, i mean for those who judge it is worth paying for liability coverage when teaching