Erin Swain: Lessons for Self-Sufficient Riders?

Erin Swain: Lessons for Self-Sufficient Riders?

Erin Swain has been writing about her experiences learning to kiteboard. We will continue to bring you updates from Erin about her experiences throughout the season. You can follow Erin’s blog at www.thekiteboarder.com/2011/11/erin-swain-lessons-for-self-sufficient-riders

Will a lesson benefit a Self Sufficient Rider?? Kite Club Hatteras had my answer…

With a new 9M Epic Renegade and a borrowed Aggression kiteboard, I was curious to see what a lesson could do for my progress. I headed down to Avon to meet up with a Bulgarian and his girlfriend. They run a kite school and I had met them up at Jockeys Ridge a couple weeks prior to this meeting. Christo is the one that is going to take me out for a lesson. He is IKO certified, which is big in Europe. I am excited and tell him that all I can do is stay upwind, and I just started trying the slide turn on my heel edge as to not sink in the water. I have successfully performed the slide turn, but not every attempt.