Booking yourself on to one of my coaching holidays will be one of the most exhilarating kitesurfing moments of your life (well I aim it to be!!). Through judgement and not luck the wind stats on my trips are extremely good and thats because I choose the locations based on all places that I have visited over 10 years through my career as a professional kitesurfer. I know the places extremely well and know their windy seasons and where to head on the day if the forecast is looking a little light. That means that you more often then not you will find yourself on one of my holidays experiencing 100% windy days which in turn means your body will be begging you for a break by the time the trip is up.
The trips are aimed at pushing you hard, but at a rate that you can handle. This rate will vary from person to person, but your level of fitness before you come away will have an effect on how much your body can handle the kiting during the trip.
For 2012 I have worked with a qualified personal trainer and medically retired Army officer from Optime to create 4 and 6 week training programs to target your general fitness and also at improving the strength of the core kitesurfing muscles. The aim is to make you feel stronger and fitter and therefore capable to maximise your time on the water while on your trip.
(Lisa Melvin following a training plan)
I also have training plans for those of you who think you are close to the level needed to come on the trips, but could do with a some extra time on the water before heading off to ensure that you are ready.
Prices start from £25 up to £300 and bare in mind people who lead a busy working schedule. To find out more call or email me on jo@jowilson.com
What an incredible Christmas and new year here in the UK. The wind has continually blown and the swell has continually rolled in. I found myself toastie warm in my 6/4mm wetsuit and booties. No need for gloves or a hat! However Im still looking forward to the perfectly timed escape to the sun from 29th January – 11th February. We have two great houses, the first looking over langebaan lagoon and the second looking onto the ocean and table mountain. The holiday costs £1,299 and includes accommodation, car hire and coaching..
Christmas Gift Vouchers are now available for any Jo Wilson Coaching Holidays and Courses. You can buy them at any value from £10 and upwards. Her courses start in the spring time as the temperature warms up and when people are often in need to a little helpful kick start to their kitesurfing season. The courses can be found at a variety of beaches around the UK from Southhampton to Barrow, Weymouth to Blackpool. Jo’s short burst sessions cost £65 for 3 hours and are intensive kitesurfing and coaching action perfect for the intermediate kitesurfer. Alternatively you can buy a voucher towards any kitesurfing holiday where the prices start at £499 for 1 week long trips. Its a great Christmas pressie for the kitesurf enthusiast. Kick start their kitesurfing and see their eager happy faces as their ability improves!
The South African Adventure is the next on the hit list of destinations for Jo Wilson Coaching. Its the time of year when you will be hard pushed to find a better destination for the harshest part of the UK winter. In fact its so goo that I have been there 8 times in the passed 9 years to train for the BKSA and PKRA World Championships! I still cannot think of a better place to ride in these month, so if your interested to find out why then please let me show you what its all about!!… Check it out by clicking here!
Its been a week now since I have been back from Brazil. That was my biggest trip to date with regards to the coaching holidays. Two 15 day long trips in 5 weeks and with a total of 12 kitesurfers plus myself that is a lot of kitesurfing miles covered.
On these trips we started in Uruau further south then most people visit. It provides a variety of stunning playgrounds with miles of space plus a small training lagoon right on your doorstep where you can focus your skills in a small area. This spot was the lightest wind of all providing enough power for 12m kites and helping to increase your confidence in mellow winds and build up new moves. 4 days is just enough and from here we hit cumbuco. Here there is the choice of lagoons, open ocean or both – a 7km downwinder to Cauipe lagoon. Spending 6 days here is perfect before heading to taiba – in my mind the best of the wave spots in the state of Ceara. The waves are well spaced and easy to predict. You can get a few turns on one wave before heading back upwind to do it all over again.
Last but not least we ended up In Paracuru. It is a tranquil town retaining much of its Brazilian features and keeping the feel that it is the place of the locals and not somewhere over run with tourism. Its natural charm and pousadas a step back from the beach make a relaxing stay, however it is the windiest spot of them all and provides flat water on the inside of the bay or waves on the out. Its phenomenal kitesurfing from morning until night, so the relaxing town was the perfect compliment to the action packed days.
The trips were split in to 2 groups. The first group were 2 couples and Miranda who was deserved of a holiday but forced to leave her husband working hard in his new job. They were all of a similar age group, but at two different kitesurfing levels. Coaching was no problem as I put the three who were more advanced together ato help them with tricks and the two with less experience together in order to build up their independance. For the other group it was made up of a crew full of energy to kite and still some energy for some big nights out too. On both trips the evenings were spent drinking caiprinhas the local drink of choice and the occasional mojhitos too. We always found incedible places to refuel our bodies. Delicious meat/fish is the speciality! On the second trip we ventured into the big city of Fortaleza to celebrate a couple of birthdays too!
The trip was a surfari as well as coaching so a lot of time was spent building up skills in various water conditions – flat water, chop, small waves and big. We covered miles of downwinders with guided buggy’s whizzing along the shore keeping one eye on us in case of any tired bods or need of a supplies.
In other places we had perfect flat water and this was where we could work on the freestyle tricks and there were a mix of people improving their stance, popping, jumping, back loops, front loops, unhooked raileys and unhooked rotations. The most fun of all the moves was indeed the darkslide! Too good!!
The trip was indeed a biggy and ‘providing a years worth of kiting in just 2 weeks’ as said by Chris who has been on several of my trips before too! What an epic. Brazil baby Surfari and Coaching will be run again next year, so please get in touch if you’d like a brochure. Next up on the agenda however is South Africa Adenture 2012 taking place from 29th January – 13th February. Give me a shout if you’d like to see the action plan line up!!
I completely missed sending you an update on the action from the first Brazil Baby holiday. Thats because it was windy everyday and barely had a chance to stop to catch up on the internet. Im now at the start of the second trip back at Pro Kite Brasil in Uruau. it looks set to be a lot of fun. There have already been some adventures including lost luggage and a twilight kite, but for now everything is back to the rightful owners and full kitesurfing days are in full swing. Look forward to bringing you the wrap up in the next week or two.
Today was the second day of my first trip running Brazil Baby Surfari and Coaching. At this time of year its hard not to resist the temptation to hit one of the worlds most reliable kite spots. The crew turned up on the night of the 19th October. Miranda Gillott, Jamie Wadhams, Anna Smee, Chris Rabone, Craig Nicholls and Bindi Harris. What a fantastic crew!
The trip has started here at Pro Kite Brasil in Uruau where we have a small lagoon directly in front of our hotel big enough to ride on and bust some stunts. Its concentrated riding as its very small, but it allows each person to choose one trick and concentrate on getting it nailed. There is no time to waste energy crusing any long distance trying to decide when to take off as the lagoon is not big enough to do that which is great.
Today I had organised buggys so we could quest out and find a bigger lagoon with no riders which is exactly what we managed to do! It was our own area of peace and tranquility and finding a more perfect spot would be difficult to come across.
Here the guys were able to launch from the offshore spot in perfect flat water and we felt as though we were in amonsgt the mangroves in real Brazil.
Its an ideal place to learn new tricks and after having ridden there today and learned the layout of the lagoon, tides, sandbards etc tomorrow we can push some limits and I will coach the guys with their next tricks!
I have just arrived back home after the first Pikey Park Up weekend. The weekend was fun and action packed weekend of kitesurfing, bbq’s and parties for everyone who has been on one of my coaching holidays before and over 40 people came. We were based at a local campsite and kitesurfed at Rhosneigr outside of Funsport where the wind blew 20 knots on the Friday, 14 knots on the Saturday and 30 knots on the Sunday.
(The marquee where the bbq was roaring ready for the great british sausages between kite sessions.)
The various conditions gave everyone a chance to ride all there different kites or take out some of the latest Naish demo equipment on the market from Naish Parks, Torches and Bolts, the Naish Rascal Twin Tip and Money Shot and Custom global waveboard.
(John preparing the 8m Torch for his session. Deep concentration involved)
The aim of the event was to create a great vibe and for everyone to meet each other or reunite if they had been on the same holiday together and hopefully over time everyone will meet again at each others beaches – and may be the Pikey Park Up will head to one of their local beaches next year!
(A few drinkies at the campsite on the saturday night)
A special thanks goes out to everyone who came as people travelled from all over the UK including Glasgow, Weymouth, London, Cardiff, York, Birmingham, Norfolk and more. A big thanks goes to Phil and Alex from Hangtime kitesports who ran the Naish demo.
(Dave Handley throwing down some moves)
James Winstanley for epic bbq’ing and supplying great tunes and Jamie and Chris for the pyromaniac skills on the heater in the marquee. What an amazing weekend and hope by tomorrow there will be some productive days at work because Im sure there were some tired heads this morning!
More piccys to come… 
Just an update, but my email is now back up and running using jo@jowilson.com. If anyone uses jo@boardseeker.com that will no longer work.
Many thanks, Jo
Hi Just to let you know I have not been receiving any emails for 1 week now. If you have written in that time or are planning to email in the next few days my email is currently jo.naish@hotmail.co.uk. Will write back on here when Im back up and running. Sorry for any inconvenience.
