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MACKite Location Review on C2SKY kite Center 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The location:  Location: Mũi Ne,Southern Vietnam, South China Sea. Nearest airport:  Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) 4-6 hour bus ride.  Season: November- April with winds all year. Wind: 25-35 knots Average kite size: 4-9m during windy season. Beach: Miles of sandy coastline with 27 kite schools. Break: Flat water close to shore and sandbar break with kickers 100 meters out. Kite School: 12 multilingual IKO instru …

Do you like kitesurfing and traveling, but can’t seem to find a reliable way to combine the two? Read on, Magellan. We have a solution. The board. Let’s start with “compact” surf shapes, like the North Pro CSC or the North Whip CSC. These are kite surfboards that typically have a shorter overall length and width, combined with more parallel rails and a blunted tip. They’ve been marketed as being good for strapless airs and freestyle, but they are also really fun for …

Whether you’re learning to kite, ride on vacations, or you’re an experienced kiteboarder… we all have one thing in common: We love to kite. And we all know that there’s a world full of beautiful kite spots just waiting to be shredded. Traveling with kiteboarding equipment is a headache, to say the least. We’re constantly trying to avoid excess baggage fees. Hauling huge bags all over the world. Never really sure if we brought the right kite sizes for the condition …

To the novice traveler, the world can appear daunting, distant and imposing. Yet with every mile interpolated into your story, it becomes just that. A piece of your story, in a way a piece of you. Over a long enough timeline staying in your routine is like days erased from your life. I have found that when looking back on my life two things stand out, change and adversity. Both can inspire growth. In a way, they are the catalyst behind our love of the sport. Kiteboarding brings novelty and new …

Brazil Through RyGo's Eyes About 5 years ago I discovered the sport of kiteboarding through a lesson at MACkite no less. I took a lesson with a young kid named Chris Bobryk. We formed a solid friendship chasing the wind over the next year. Eventually, Chris moved to Hatteras, North Carolina to pursue kiteboarding.  While I spent my days working my 9 to 5 (that more often than not was a 7 to 7 kind of job), I started dreaming of a better life - by a better life I mean one where I could spen …

Our Favorite Kite-Mobiles Here at MACkite we are used to talking shop about kiteboarding, paddleboarding, e-transport, snowboarding, and skiing. We are the experts after all. ;) However, there is another often overlooked subject that is common to conversations here. We do not sell it and we are certainly not the experts. The subject is how we get to the beach, our kite-mobiles if you will. From chartered yacht to skateboard, it seems that everyone has their own idea about what is the ultima …

Blake Olsen: Smathers Beach Ah, Key West, Florida. Home to warmth, simple pleasures, and to Smathers Beach. If you have the gumption to wake up early, take a walk down the beach and catch the sunrise. Sit down and enjoy the sun, the waves, and the surf as you soak in that much-needed Vitamin D. Sounds perfect, right? That's what our Team Rider Blake Olsen thought as well. As he catches a sunset sesh in the month of January, you'll see him pop, glide, and rock the big blue.  …

Summer Memories With RyGo Update about September - Pumpkin Spice Latte is now available! While one of us (read: me) is excited for this season, all of us around the shop are rather nostalgic of the summer days gone away. RyGo's summer was one of trying new things, enjoying MACkite as a full time employee, and experiencing cable riding. Read through as he reflects on his Michigan Summer. RyGo's Michigan Summer "This was my first summer as a full timer at MACkite. I have been instructing here for …

Summer Memories with Tucker Welcome to September! September brings the introduction to many things: the changing of the leaves, the cold morning wind, and all things pumpkin (spice, pies, bread...the list could go on). As we welcome fall and all of its wonders - KoGL Test Fest, anyone? - we also feel a little nostalgic of a summer gone by. While we're working hard to make your kiteboarding dreams come true, we try hard to fulfill ours as well. Enter Tucker, our Shipping Manager and all-around fo …