Kiteracing Enduro Month in La Ventana, Baja: 28 days of #kiteracing.

The Playa Central staff is creating an opportunity for kiteracers and people who are getting into kiteracing, to go on a long term training vacation  to improve their skills, tune their gear set-up to go the fastest possible and network with pros, brand owners, and learn about upcoming races and events. We have learned that when pro racers, gear designers, and people who are getting into kiteracing are at the same beach sharing information and experiences it helps the kiteracing industry grow in a direction that is welcoming to beginners, interesting to spectators and promotes the pro racers of today. Playa Central´s Kiteracing Enduro Month will be a chance for optimized trainning, allow people to receive instruction for specific areas of their kiteracing, let the industry more familiar with the hands on experience that beginner racers face when getting started with the discipline, and it provide a real time testing ground for R&D with gear designers and their team riders all at the same beach.

The enduro month will be Feb 1st-28th, and will be twenty eight days of #kiteracing, clinics, yoga, racing drills, and fun. Racers can register for a month or week at a time, yet we will keep score of the total race points of the whole month and have an Enduro champion. Playa Central will run one evening race every day, and a regatta on Fridays with hopefully 5 starts, weather permitting. After the Friday races there will be a small awards ceremony for each week at the Playa Central wood oven restaurant bar and there will be soft goods as prizes for both men and women. Twice a week we will have a short clinic on gear, and another on tactics and skills, both which will be included with the enrollment, as wel as morning yoga classes for all racers. The idea is to be one stop kiteracing training center for international and national riders, covering all areas, including raceboard storage, at a low price.




This 2014 Kiteracing Enduro Month has been inspired by ASV Performance Kites, Rista Fins, Aguera Boards, Adam Withington, Adam Koch, to name a few companies and pro racers who have been using La Ventana as their training grounds and as R&D hot spot. The fact that lots of other pro racers, like John and Erika Heineken, Bryan Lake, Joey Pasquali, Jessica Sikinger, Brian Kender, Sean Farley Gomez, Cynthia Brown and Julien Kernuer have also spent weeks and months in and out of Baja for regattas, R&D and training has promoted La Ventana as a kiteracing spot, and made it a place where people can go and race and most likely be lining up next to the best in the world.



 We expect to see American and international teams of kiteracers come down for the whole month, and train here because it will be inexpensive living, valuable training, and fun networking. Beginner racers mainly from the West Coast, as well as other places will seek out one of two weeks of the Enduro Month and get the most concentrated practice time they can get, or if they can work it out, we would hope to see beginners commit to the whole month. We also would like to invite kite companies and their team riders to base out of Playa Central for the month, and really take advantage of the casual, yet high level of the kiteracing that will be going on.

During the enduro month we will have some options for kiteracers who would like one on one instruction, or who would like to work on specific areas like tacks, jibes, starts, etc, that can be purchased while in La Ventana. If there is a beginner racer who still needs to have the gear set up, we can order race kites and a race board for them before the Enduro Month, or they can demo some gear here and decide what works best.

The sponsors for the event will be kiteracing brands, sunglass and head wear, sports magazines, and will only be sponsoring with products and cross promotion though social media and websites. The sponsors´ logos will be on all official posters, bands, T-shirts, and will donate the prizes for the Friday regatta awards every week. We would like to thank our friends and sponsors who are already onboard, and invite other companies who are interested to jump on soon. Thank you to ASV Performance kites, Rista Fins, Kitesurfing Planet, Pacific Paddle, Weendy (wind app), Aguera Boards and our staff at Playa Central. To be involved as a sponsor please e-mail jessica@playacentralkiteboarding.com. Thank you!