At Synergy Kitesports we offer a range of training courses aimed at helping you become safe and proficient in your chosen activity. All courses include elements of theory covering wind, weather and safety essential to all kite sports.

Our courses are run at a variety of locations in and around Fraserburgh allowing us to make the best of the wind and tide conditions on any given day. It is therefore important that you are prepared to travel for your course.

• Powerkiting - Learning to fly a power kite is the starting point from which all kite sports develop, as well as being a fun and exciting activity in itself and good exercise for people of all ages. IKO Powerkite level 1 is the minimum pre-requisite skill level needed for progression on to other kitesports courses.

• Kite Landboarding - Landboarding is a progression from powerkiting which uses the power of the kite to propel you along a four wheeled board, like an off-road skateboard. Once you have mastered the basics you can develop the skills needed to cruise along beaches or perform big air freestyle tricks.

• Kite Buggying - Kite buggying is a progression from powerkiting which uses the power of the kite to propel you along in a three wheeled seated buggy. Once you have mastered the basics you can develop the skills needed to race at speeds of up to 50miles per hour or perform low and high level freestyle tricks.

• Kitesurfing - Kitesurfing is basically using a kite to ride a board on the water. Kitesurfing takes elements from many sports, including powerkiting, wakeboarding, skateboarding and windsurfing, and combines them to give a sport where almost anything is possible. From huge jumps and freestyle competitions to racing, rails and sliders, surfing waves and distance crossings between countries. The only limit is your imagination! Before heading out into the sea with a kite you need be proficient in kite control and know how to look after yourself should you have a problem, which is a big focus of the first days of a kitesurf course. We teach to the IKO (International Kiteboarding Organisation) syllabus, so you know you will recieve a structured training course, and will be certified to the level you attain at the end of it.

• Snowkiting - Snowkiting involves using a powerkite to power yourself along on either a snowboard, skis, blades or even ice skates. Like all kitesports, people are taking snowkiting in many directions. For some it is a way to avoid queueing for lifts or a way to access more remote off-piste areas, for others the challenge is taking wakeboard and kitesurf tricks and performing them on the snow. Even most arctic and antarctic expeditions are taking kites now. There are races on frozen lakes, freestyle competitions and some snowkiters are literally jumping off mountains and flying back down again. Although we can't teach snowkiting in Britain as conditions are not especially predictable or reliable, for any skiers or boarders interested in the possibilities a kite could give them we can tailor powerkite sessions to this. Powerkite flying and safety skills are the basis of snowkiting, so once you have these you have your all areas lift pass for the rest of your life!

To reach a good level in any sport, including kitesports, takes practise, determination and patience.

As with all sports, there is a right way to do it, and another way to do it: