Kitesurf : On water with wings

To practise kitesurfing also called flysurfing, which is still more eloquent, you must equip yourself with a traction wing baptized kite and let yourself glide on the water. When your technique is under control, then you can draw beautiful curves in the waves and take off to impressive heights.

It is not a sport for athletes exclusively, everyone can try, and the only condition is to be well supervised.  If this specialty is very accessible and gentle on snow for instance, on the lakes, you have to take into account the requirements of the aquatic milieu, which is a bit less obvious for humanoids. In a word, if you fall down with your skis, you get up and restart.

On water, you have to manage your drift, orient yourself, get back to the surface, and get your sail back in the right direction. Take also account of all the windsurfers and boats sailing at the surface of the lake very close to you. At Monteynard, Gaël Braud and his team train their pupils and follow them from a boat, to give them assistance if any help is needed. All have a national diploma. Security above all...

So you can really enjoy yourself if you are in good physical condition. During Gaël's training sessions, some of the participants weighed more than 120 kilos, some others were 70 years old and others 15 year old teenagers. Everything went off smoothly.

 Freekite has selected Lake Monteynard, because the wind is ideal. Between April and October, it blows from the valley, in the lake axis, which is long and narrow in, and can reach 18 knots (i.e. a bit over 33 kilometres / hour).