2 day beginner course vid..and locals riding the flat water
boards will retail at $750.00 free shipping to the usa and canada.
May 6, 2008
March 27, 2008
February 20, 2008
arial view of ,spanish wells.
sorry about the music…on the spanish wells vid (some one elses music)
vid of Roby D close but no cigar, Nassau ,Bahamas.
February 7, 2008
spanish wells kite camp November 2008
National Geographic thought that my kite camp was worthy of being in the mag….I am so stoked.
check out the link.
AJ Watson
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/travel/best-island-vacations/bahamas.html
January 31, 2008
2 day beginner course special .
Learn to “kitesurf “special
2 day beginner course 8 hrs of instruction for $450.00
From feb 2008 until the June 1st 2008
Get IKO certified
Get up on the board and feel the freedom of “kitesurfing”.
info@cross-shore.com
ph# Nassau Bahamas (242) 393 3261
VOIP USA #(305) 767-2171,
January 29, 2008
facebook group for bahamas kiteboarding
if your like me, and you have been sucked into www.Facebook.com check the link bellow out, it is the group I started for Bahamas riders and guest rides and students (please join).
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2753376240
Aj Watson
December 4, 2007
October 2, 2007
here is a editoral my friend Rick did on me and kiteboarding in Nassau Bahamas
check it out pretty interesting .(rick is a awesome writer and really stoked on kiteboarding and safety )
September 26, 2007
for all the wind widow’s “summer is over”time to ride.
Season’s Change
By Gillian Watson wind widow to AJ Watson
The first day of fall. I can taste the wind arriving. The oppressive heat of summer peels away and the salty smell of the sea fills the air. I can almost hear the collective sign of kiteboarders in Nassau who have suffered a whole summer with no wind. Email wind updates start to circulate. Cell phones ring again. The hibernating wind chasers emerge. I can hear the familiar noises again: The crisp sound of kites, unused for too long, unfurling, sand rubbing on the ripstop. Pumps squeaking and the excited voices of the kiteboarders rising with the wind. It has been a long, hot summer in Nassau. One without wind. A horrible summer if you are a kiteboarder. Even worse, a kiteboarders wife. But it is all finally coming to an end.
I have watched the kiteboarding scene in Nassau develop over the last six summers, as my husband learned to kite and turned his new passion into his source of income when he opened his first kiteboarding school in Nassau in 2001. In the beginning there were only about three or four regulars, that number has grown to about 15 locals. In the beginning you had to strain your eyes to pick out who was who,….and they were so far away! Times in Nassau have changed. On a good day (and there are many in winter!) when all the locals are riding at their favorite spot for showing off, they stop traffic…literally! Our locals know how to please a crowd. You can hear the collective ohhhs and ahhhs as someone does a particularly daring move. My job, as a wind widow, used to be sitting on the beach taking photos for the brag book and handing the guys a different board if they wanted to switch out. Nowadays I spend the afternoons answering the questions of the dozens who stop by to watch.
Kiteboarding is catching on around the world and the scene in Nassau Bahamas is about to explode. Because the island is so small it is easy to get to one of many the different kitebeaches if you are looking for the perfect conditions. And because The Bahamas is made up of so many small islands and shallow water spots it is the ideal place to kiteboard. I have seen more of the Bahamas and spent more time on the most beautiful beaches all over the Bahamas since my husband started kiteboarding than I did in my entire childhood growing up here. Kiteboarding is the perfect eco sport. It does not pollutant. It is quiet. It makes you appreciate, like nothing else, the pristine beauty and awesome power of nature. Kiteboarding in the Bahamas can mean rolling surf straight off the ocean or crystal clear flat water that stretches on for miles. It can mean rippin’ it up at 25 miles per hour or skimming along at a steady 15. MPH
Even though I am not actually out there riding with my husband I feel the draw of kiteboarding. I study the water as it is thrown off the back of his board as he carves in close to the shoreline. I watch the intricate hand movements that lead to a perfect kite loop. I can feel the earth drop out from beneath him as he catches a huge air and hangs there, suspended, waiting to float (or crash!) back down to the water. My knees instinctively give a little as his board touches back down. Watching kiteboarding is like watching ballet..with a twist. I think it is like that for a lot of people; it is mesmerizing. It draws you in. Often someone will stop and ask me the regular questions about lessons and gear but after receiving the standard answers many then sink slowly to sit onto the sand as they are captivated by the spell of good kiteboarding. They, like me, can sit there for a long, long, time, sometimes hours, and just watch.
If you look at something long enough you begin to see different layers. Watching kiteboarding heightens all of your instincts, makes you much more aware of and connected to your surroundings. You notice the differences in the color of the water, the shapes and rhythms of the waves and the play of light on the surface of the water. On really windy days the constant fine sand blowing in your face numbs your skin. On cold days you revel in the warmth of the sun and on hot days you relish the taste of clean cold water. You can tell the wind has changed intensity because the leaves of the trees around you make a different noise and you can feel a storm approaching when its cold breath wraps around your shoulders and you dig you toes into the sand looking for warmth. And all of this happens subconsciously.
Nothing makes me more proud to be a Bahamian than when a tourist stops to ask about this awesome sport of kiteboarding and ends up spending the whole day on the beach just watching. Or when my husband takes a visiting student to his favorite spots for the first time. I have spent hours reviewing photographs, cutting and cropping and wishing for better angles and less glare and the thing that always stands out for me is how beautiful it is here and how lucky I am to be able to look out at this ocean every day. For me watching kiteboarding gives me the perfect opportunity to drink in my surrounding, to get back in touch with nature and witness this wonderful relationship we have with our world as I watch one man, with his kite and board, harness the energy that surrounds us and go for the ride of his life.
For more information on kiteboarding all over the Bahamas visit http://www.cross-shore.com
September 17, 2007
Kiteboarding in Paradise
Kitebaording/kitesurfing first started in Maui Hawaii in 1998
The first kites where hand sewn , 200 kites for kite surfing where made and 200 kiteboarders from all over the world where made shortly after.
That was nearly 10 years ago and now there are over 500 thousand kiteboarders world wide.
The Bahamas is known to be one of the best places in the world to learn to kiteboard and to kiteboard with it’s shallow warm water and great trade winds, offer a incredible experience and adventure for all levels of kiteboarders. Beginners to advanced riders.
From flat water riding to crisp clean virgin Atlantic waves,
With IKO instructors and the newest safest teaching methods on the latest gear, this is the place to learn the extreme sport of kiteboarding “Safely”.
The water temp is 70 deg all year round a bit warmer in summer.
The kiting season really kicks off around end of September when the trade wind changes from ESE to ENE average wind speeds in winter are 15 to 20 kts.
The teaching areas are shallow warm clean water uncrowned and off the well trodden path…not only do we offer kiteboarding lessons we offer adventure and lifestyle.
Capt Aj Watson
cross-shore Bahamas kiteboarding school
“take nothing but photos leave nothing but wake”
web site: http://www.cross-shore.com
email : info@cross-shore.com
phone# (242) 393-3261
cell ph# (242) 422-0756
