{"id":2694,"date":"2008-07-30T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2008-07-30T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:28:48","slug":"faqs-do-i-need-to-be-able-to-windsurf-before-learning-to-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/help\/faq-for-beginners\/faqs-do-i-need-to-be-able-to-windsurf-before-learning-to-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQs &#8211; Do I need to be able to windsurf before learning to kite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NO, absolutely not.\u00a0 Kitesurfing is very different to windsurfing. Of course a sportive background helps as kitesurfing is physical and a knowledge of windsurfing helps in that way that you understand already how the wind works, however, there\u2019s still the kite-control that you have to learn. To learn kitesurfing is mastering 2 skills:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Boardskill<br \/>\n2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kite-control<\/p>\n<p>Just like windsurfing, any boardsport (i.e. snowboarding, wakeboarding etc.) helps and so does any wind-related sport (such as paragliding) in speeding up the process of learning how to kitesurf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I need to be able to windsurf before learning to kite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[606,781,211,593,666,780],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq-for-beginners","tag-board","tag-control","tag-kite","tag-learning","tag-safety","tag-skill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}