It's a 9am meet up at Tonia's house. Tonia hosted the ITC for the IKO through her IKO certified school Cascade Kiteboarding in Hood River.
Donuts were provided..although of course I stopped prior to Tonia's for a McD's sausage McMuffin and a lo-carb Monster energy drink.
The session starts off with introductions and then some reading in the book.
Lunch came around 1pm, and at 2pm we needed to be at the event site for the start of hands-on training, David Dorn of Action Sports Maui showed us some techniques for shortening lines, as well as converting a 4 line bar to work with a trainer kite to provide the student with the ability to hook in.
Below are some pictures from my friend's Flickr account, David of Morph Kiteboarding, of day 1 ITC training in Hood River - May 11th. Check em out.
iko day 1b, a gallery on Flickr.
After the training, it was time to suit up and do the ride test. The wind was a bit light, so I put up my 13m...and yes, I passed my ride test with flying colors. OK, well maybe I did crash a nice backroll kiteloop directly in front of Jeffro...I think I even got the "naughty move finger shake" from him too.
When we got done with the ride test and wrap up it was roughly 6:30pm, which happens to be the earliest ending to our day for the whole week.
Anyways, after this we kit up Full Sail Brewing again..this time with most of the class.
Needless to say, I didn't stay up all that late, as I was tired from a long day.
Here is a quick little video, made from a bunch of flip video shots, that I quickly seemed together with music. Probably not much to watch for most of you, but it will most likely bring back some good memories for those that were there with me taking this ITC certification course.
Also, here are a few picture that I took from the day.
Pat's farmer tan sunburn
the crew - day 1
demonstration
sumo wrestling..ok, maybe not!
Don't mess with the kook....
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