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Welcome to the the Tarifa Blue Waves website, offering you the best (IKO Certified) kitesurfing courses / lessons in Tarifa - Spain. Come and have a kite surfing course with our school - simply book online and you are booked. 

Read all about Tarifa and what it has to offer here on our website. There are many activities to do in around Tarifa, and Kite Surfing is only one of them.

Read about the kitesurfing courses /lessons we offer here.

Information about learning to kitesurf in Tarifa 

When learning kitesurfing there are two main learning curves; power kite flying skills and board skills. It is unlikely that many people will be able to combine these two areas from the word go, without some prior experience in one or the other.

There will be short cuts for people who have either good board skills from a related sport like winsurfing, surfing, snowboarding and skating or a high level of power kite flying skills.

So, if you think kitesurfing is the sport for you…go for it - Tarifa is one of the best places in the world to learn with its abundance of long and wide sandy beaches. It is essential to take a course and at Tarifa Blue Waves we will offer you a variety of different kite courses that suit your needs. Avoid the temptation to ‘have a go’ with your friend's 12m kite….it could be a painful mistake for you and anyone in your path…Plus your friend will not be happy to see his material destroyed in the blink of an eye....  

Book a course with Tarifa Blue Waves and we will teach you all you need to know about the equipment, theory, safety, the wind and of course how to control and fly the kite.

Just as windsurfing was a combination between sailing and surfing, kite surfing is a combination between power kite flying and surfing.

The sport has completely exploded in Tarifa over the past 5 or 6 years. In good wind conditions in summer, it isn't unusual to count over 500 kites in the sea and on the beach……an amazing sight! It is easy to understand why this sport is so popular - it looks deceptively easy, the jumps and tricks look spectacular and it requires much less wind and physical exertion than windsurfing.

Kitesurfing is a sport for people of all ages; you need to be in good health and relatively fit (no back, neck or shoulder problems). Determination will also be asset, because although kite surfing is much easier to master than windsurfing and surfing, co-ordinating all those skills at the beginning can be a challenge!