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SURF ZONE: KITE-WIND-SURF CENTRE (RENTALS & LESSONS)
Windsurf Special: 2011/2012 material, 1 week 170euros, use of 2 schools, can change material according to conditions
Kitesurf Course: Students DO NOT share kites during lessons, each student gets thier own set of equipment
Surf Zone is Cape Verde's largest KITESURFING and WINDSURFING school. With a focus on quality surfing, Surf Zone offers only private and semi private kite and windsurf lessons (price includes all the equipment and transfers to teaching locations) for beginners as well as more intermediate and advanced kitesurfers and windsurfers.
Surf Zone has two schools on the island. Each school is equiped with the latest kite and windsurf equipment as well as wind and kite instructors. Surf Zone limits the number of clients in both schools to ensure quality of service, access to different size boards, sails, kites, as well as providing a family/team like feel.
In an effort to accomodate our more advanced kiters, Surf Zone now offers STORAGE and KITE SAFARI's, which includes a downwinder from kite beach with a stop at Lembeje bay.
Kitesurf Material
*2011/2012 Ozone and CORE Kite Material: Surf Zone is the offical Ozone school in cabo verde. We stock 2011 and 2012 ozone kites and crazy fly boards. For those of you new to ozone you can click on the link below for more information. http://www.flyozone.com/kitesurf/en/products/kites/catalyst-2011/info/
For our more advanced kite rentals, we now offer 2012 Core Kites. These 4 line kites are an excellent all around kite.
Windsurf Material
Surf Zone also offers a mix of new and older windsurf material (2010-2012) to accomodate clients wanting to pay less but still have access to good quality material in good condition. We offer Fantatic freewave as well as freeride material. In the wave section we have taboo and angulo wave boards. For sails we have a mix of Maui and North sails, offering clients a variety sails
The Team: Surf zone is owned, managed and staffed by surfers. Our team is a multicultural mix of excellent wind surfers, kite surfers and surfers who have been living and surfing this island for over 10years, some have been here all their lives. Our present team has been together for 5 years and as such offers a very friendly and personal environment. In addition, all our team members offer the highest level of instruction and assistance to all our customers.
Surf Zone has two locations (Morabeza hotel beach club & Riu hotel water sports centre) on the island of sal and a team of 9 instructors, teaching in 8 different languages. As the schools are on 2 different sides of the island (15min apart), they offer clients two completely different sets of conditions from which to kite and windsurf.
Both schools are located on the island of Sal, which for many years has remained a well kept secret as one of the world's best Kite, Wind, and Surfing environments. The island is home to varying conditions and surfing spots that ensures that all levels of surfers are catered to, all within a 20min radius.
Schools Locations
The first school, is located in the Bay of Santa Maria. This Bay is home to 3kms of pure sandy beach and rock/reef free waters. It is perfect for long safe wind and kite surf runs. The water temperature ranges from 21-29c. The wind is slightly off-shore at the beginning of the bay and slightly on-shore at the end of the bay. It is a surfing haven!
The Santa Maria school is the largest Kite Surfing school on the island. All the instructors as well as the owners have an extensive background in teaching kite surfing. The entire team lives on the island all year around, and therefore have strong knowledge of the kiting enviroment across the island.
The other school is Surf Zone Riu, and is located on the west coast 500meters from the world famous wave spot Punta Preta. It is the only school on this coast. The bay and surrounding area is excellent for intermediate to advanced kite surfers and wind surfers. The wind here is often the strongest of all the surf spots on the island where schools are located. The wind direction here is more side-off shore.
Conditions here are excellent for windsurfers wanting to speedsail, freestyle, pratice thier jibes and generaly blast around the ocean.
Languages: Surf Zone provides rental information and instruction in English, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Croatian
Safety: Surf Zone excels in its attention to safety and ensures there is always an emergency rescue boat on hand.
WIND To have an idea what the wind will be like when you are here go the link below for the 7 day forecast: http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=206841
You can also click on this link to access the archives to see what the wind statistics were like in previous years/months. http://www.windguru.cz/int/historie.php?id_spot=206841&model=gfs
