Level 1A
- Equipment handling, safety and set-up
- Determining wind direction and theory of wind turbulence
- Wind window theory; practice with a small trainer kite
- Piloting trainer kite in the power zone unharnessed
- Untwisting lines by rotating body
- 4-line set-up and pre-flight checks
- Assisted launching and landing
- Landing kite unassisted and retrieving correctly
Level 1B
- Theory of water launching
- Assisted water launching
- Body dragging harnessed by flying kite in the power zone
- Body dragging harnessed in different directions
- Body dragging with twisted lines and recovery
- Space awareness
- Quick release procedures for emergency
- Self-rescue procedures
Level 2
- Advanced body dragging (upwind body dragging)
- One-handed piloting while body dragging and in waiting position
- Board recovery and positioning
- Generating steady pull in starting position on the kiteboard
- Water-start procedures
- Equipment (selection/maintenance)
Level 3
- Priority rules
- How to generate constant power
- Edging up and down and holding an edge
- Speed control (sheeting in and out)
- Methods of flying to de-power kite
- Switching direction
- First jump