Watersports School · Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex
Watersports School · Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex
Professional Instructor Programme
From complete beginner to professional instructor. Turn your passion for watersports into a career. Whatever your current level, we help you develop the riding, safety, rescue and teaching skills needed to qualify as a kitesurf and/or wingfoil instructor.
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Train with Get Kiteboarding at Bracklesham Bay
From £4,495
From beginner to IKO kitesurf instructor. Suitable for complete beginners, developing and experienced riders.
⏱ Up to 20 hrs coaching🎓 IKO pathway
From beginner to IWO wingfoil instructor. Suitable for complete beginners through to experienced wingfoilers.
⏱ Up to 20 hrs coaching🎓 IWO pathway
You do not need to be an experienced rider to join the programme. We work with candidates from their first experience of the sport through to professional instructor development. Your progression follows three broad stages:
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Complete beginners start with the fundamentals, developing independence, control, technical ability and an understanding of equipment, weather and conditions.
Existing riders enter this process further along. As your ability develops, we introduce the higher-level riding, safety and rescue skills relevant to professional instructor development.
The objective is not simply to accumulate lesson hours. It is to develop the competence required to move to the next stage.
2
Being able to ride does not necessarily mean you can teach. Once you are ready, the focus shifts towards developing somebody else’s skills. This can include:
Where appropriate, you may also work alongside experienced Get Kiteboarding instructors during genuine customer lessons.
3
Once you have developed the competencies required for your chosen pathway, we will support your progression into the relevant external professional training. Depending on your programme, this can include:
These courses and qualifications are delivered, assessed and/or awarded by their respective external organisations and training centres. Certification remains subject to their current entry requirements, course availability and successful completion of the relevant training and assessment.
Get Kiteboarding prepares you for the professional pathway. Final certification remains the decision of the relevant external training or awarding organisation.
The specified external training normally includes:
The specified external training normally includes:
The specified external training normally includes:
External courses are provided by independent organisations and training centres. They remain subject to current entry requirements, course availability, locations and assessment criteria.
Your included development time is not restricted to traditional private lessons.
Depending on your level and objectives, it may involve:
Where a group or customer session forms part of your professional development, the time you spend within that session counts towards your included allocation.
The 20 hours per discipline represent professional development time rather than exclusively private one-to-one tuition.
This approach develops you as both a rider and an instructor, rather than simply providing a block of private lessons.
There is no single training formula that works for everybody.
A complete beginner may require more personal riding development, while an experienced rider may need more work on teaching, rescue, communication or professional practice.
Your development time is therefore allocated according to what you need to progress, rather than requiring every candidate to complete the same sequence of lessons.
If you reach the required standard quickly, we will move you into the next appropriate stage rather than requiring unnecessary lessons simply to use your allocation.
Remaining development time may be used for teaching practice, supervised instruction, rescue work, mentoring or other relevant professional development.
The programme is sold as an integrated professional development pathway rather than individual lessons purchased by the hour.
As your competence develops, you may have opportunities to work alongside Get Kiteboarding during genuine customer lessons where appropriate.
You may initially observe how experienced instructors manage and structure sessions, then assist, demonstrate and coach before delivering appropriate elements under supervision.
By the time you attend your professional instructor training, teaching should not be completely new to you.
Our objective is to help develop instructors who can operate confidently, safely and professionally within a watersports environment. The pathway can include:
Practical first-aid knowledge relevant to working around sport and the water.
Practical powerboat handling skills that can be valuable when working at watersports centres in the UK and overseas.
Progressive experience working alongside professional instructors and genuine students.
An understanding of managing students, equipment, conditions and emergencies.
Support and guidance throughout your development towards becoming an instructor.
You might be:
You do not need to arrive as an instructor. That is the point of the programme.
You do not need to be an accomplished rider, pass an entrance assessment or know everything about becoming an instructor. That is what the programme is for.
Choose your pathway and enrol online today with a single payment covering your chosen programme.
Your first sessions establish where you are now. Together, we will build the pathway towards where you want to be.
Full Professional Instructor Programme Terms & Conditions apply.
| Programme | Pay in full | Total |
|---|---|---|
| IKO Kitesurf | £4,495 today | £4,495 |
| IWO Wingfoil | £4,495 today | £4,495 |
| Dual IKO + IWO | £6,995 today | £6,995 |
Pay in full: £4,495 today
Total: £4,495
Pay in full: £4,495 today
Total: £4,495
Pay in full: £6,995 today
Total: £6,995
All programmes are payable in full at enrolment. Choose your programme below to enrol securely through Stripe.
Full payment, cancellation and withdrawal provisions are contained within our Professional Instructor Programme Terms & Conditions.
No. Complete beginners can join the programme and start by developing their riding skills.
If you already have experience, we will identify the areas you need to develop and begin at the appropriate stage.
No. You do not need to pass an entrance assessment before enrolling.
After enrolment, we will arrange your initial Training & Development Review to establish your current riding ability, knowledge, safety awareness and previous experience.
Not necessarily.
Your development may be delivered one-to-one, alongside other trainee instructors or within suitable Get Kiteboarding customer lessons and group sessions.
The included hours represent professional development time rather than exclusively private one-to-one tuition.
Twenty hours per discipline is the Get Kiteboarding professional development allocation included within the relevant programme.
It is not a guarantee that every candidate will reach the entry standard required by an external professional organisation within that allocation.
Complete beginners may require additional riding development before progressing into professional instructor training.
If further development is required, additional sessions can be arranged at our preferential Trainee Instructor Rate. We will discuss any recommended additional development with you as your programme progresses.
If you are ready to progress, we will progress you.
Remaining development time may be used for additional coaching, rescue development, supervised teaching, lesson observation, mentoring or other relevant professional development.
Unused development hours do not have a separate cash value because you are purchasing an integrated professional development programme rather than a package of individual lessons.
Your previous experience, progression, availability, chosen discipline, weather, tides and external course availability will all influence how quickly you develop.
An experienced rider may progress into instructor development relatively quickly, while a complete beginner will naturally spend longer developing personal riding skills.
Candidates should normally aim to complete their development and external pathway within 24 months of enrolment.
Training locations are determined by the activity, conditions, weather and tides.
Locations may include Bracklesham Bay, Chichester Harbour, Pagham or another suitable location selected by your instructor.
No.
External courses and qualifications are delivered, assessed and/or awarded by independent organisations and training centres.
Successful completion of the Get Kiteboarding programme does not itself award an IKO, IWO or RYA qualification. Certification remains subject to the relevant organisation’s current requirements and successful completion of its training and assessment.
Your programme includes one funded attempt at the specified external professional training.
If you are unsuccessful and need to repeat an external course, assessment or module, the cost of that repeat course or assessment is your responsibility.
Unless specifically confirmed otherwise in writing, travel, accommodation, food and other personal expenses associated with external courses are not included.
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