Summer Kiteboarding in La Ventana

Most wind-sport people who come to La Ventana only visit during October through April for the thermal wind season. This is the second summer in a row that I have been in La Ventana and usually spend my days in the garden, running my AC 24/7, and kiteboarding on the other side of this L shaped bay.

In this image, the red circle on the left (West) is Playa Central, which is gets the side shore Nortes and thermal from Oct-April. During the summer months it is a little different. Playa Central recieves a light onshore wind created from the thermal that comes in about 1-2pm and dies off with the sunset.

So, about two days a week, when the thermal wind is blowing about 16 kn, we take our car and with out using our 4x4 we get to the "Bufadora", which is about a 13 min drive. We kite on our 7m, 9m, and 11m, depending. Sometimes we do downwinders to Playa Central, which is great because we get to roll out kites up on the grass and rinse our gear off.

If you ever do come down to La Ventana in the summer, bring your kites!

Want to learn how to kitesurf? It's simple, go to school.

As equipment continues to improve in kitesurfing, the number of people who pick up the sport increases. After years of kiteboarding being taught around the world, there have been several general methods developed by instructors on how to learn through a safe and successful process.

As a friend of beginner kiters and a kitboarding enthusiast, I recommend above all things for people to take lessons with a professional kiteschool or at least an experienced instructor.


3 simple tips on how to start kiteboarding:

1. If consistent wind and beginner kite friendly beaches are not available in your home town, plan a 7-30 day vacation to a windy kitespot to get through the learning curve quickly.

2. Find a kitespot with professional kiteschools and make sure to check the calendar to assure you are going during the right season.

3. Once you learn to kiteboard with the kiteschool gear, you will have a better idea of what equipment you will want to buy for yourself. For safety and efficiency purposes, we recommend buying new kites and boards for your new venture.

Now Supplying to Local Stores

Playa Central Bakery's french bread is now available at Mini-super Oscaritos. We deliver fresh bread Monday-Saturday, by 1 PM.

Pie Pan Pizza

Pie Pan PIZZA $60 pesos

This will be quick kite fuel for the kiteboarders to load up on when they kite from up and down the beach and land at Playa Central for lunch. Daily pizza along with chalkboard menu pasta and seafood- open seven days a week.

French Baguette

Playa Central's bakery has this recipe nailed down. We love French bread, in our house in Cozumel we always would eat it with sandwiches, soups, PB&J, anything really. We think it will be a favorite staple for the kiters and windsurfers in La Ventana, yum.

This is a picture of 10 baguettes just before I sold them to a very friendly family that came into he bakery today.

Halleluja, make a joyful noise!

Today the floor in the 4,000 sq foot Playa Central warehouse is finally out! After six weeks of hammering this well plastered swimming pool floor out of out kiteshop and sail shed, we can take a deep breath.

A special thanks to my brother, Adam, for having worn earplugs and goggles and dedicated many hours of hard work to Playa Central.