Expect a higher value lesson at Sethawadi Kite. It's not just an investment in your future safety, it's about achieving best results with premium-level coaching excellence.
Our model is not the typical mass-market, shortcut-driven approach that's unfortunately so common. It's a foundation built on skills-based, structured progression with consistently applied safety practices throughout the process.
Our focus is on giving you the independence and depth of understanding that will help you progress efficiently with your kitesurfing in the long term. We include skills and details often skipped in other schools, because it's worth getting the process right.
Lessons are led by our Chief Instructor Matt Kwantes, kiting for 25 years and one of the few kitesurf instructors to have received both the VDWS Instructor License and the IKO Senior Level 2 certificates. With over 20 years of developing training programs and a mindset of continuously learning how to do things better, he's here to help you maximise the results you get from each hour of lesson time.
The Sethawadi Advantage: Flexible Payment System and Free "off-the-clock" Time
At Sethawadi Kite, you don't need to worry about having to pay ahead of time, or being locked into a kitesurf lesson package you don't finish.
You only pay for what you complete from day to day, without the hassles of trying to get a refund in case the wind is not suitable or you decide to take time off lessons.
Our hourly rate comes with free, "off the clock" learning time, to complement your paid lesson time. It's designed to help you make the most of your lesson time, reinforce what you've learned, and help with understanding the technical details-- to progress faster by making the most of your lesson time.
We hope you take advantage of these:
Free Technical Sessions:
This is relaxed "class" time, where we review and debrief the material you're working on, prepare you for upcoming steps, and help clear up those lingering uncertainties, or "floating question marks" as we call them. Here we also introduce important theory and technical points, so that we don't need to take up paid lesson time.
Free Lesson Auditing:
You are welcome to join along with any other lessons in progress during your off-time. This allows you to observe another student going through the steps you’re working on (or preparing for), and hear the instructor’s lesson points. It’s a preview/review of all the lesson content-- because many of the points along the way bear repeating.
You get “Homework”!
Yes, we also provide material for you to go through on your own time. The lesson handbook allows you to check off all the points you’re going through, and gives you practical points and procedures to study. And for each step along the way, we have carefully selected youtube videos to help you.
Rates
Rates include all kite equipment, equipment insurance, and boat transfer across the lagoon.
Private Lessons
at Sethawadi Kite- Includes the “off-the-clock” time described above.
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Partner Lesson
at Sethawadi Kite- The Partner lesson is most useful for the first few hours of lessons. We teach you how to work together (and help each other) on a buddy system. Share a kite, and learn from your partner's "mistakes" and successes. Includes the "off-the-clock" time described above.
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