Welcome to California Kiteboarding the only Kiteboarding Shop in the Central Coast and the 1st Central Coast SUP shop.
Recognize any of California's greatest Premier Kiteboarding Locations?
Pismo Beach, Morro Bay, Oceano, San Simeon, and Cayucos, Waddell, Scott Creek, Crissy Field, Cresent City, Rio Vista, C-Street, Mission Bay, Seal Beach, Jalama, and some other spots we have yet to kite!
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What is Kiteboarding?
There is a sport that is like surfing, wakeboarding, and flying all at once. If you’ve ever been to Pismo Beach on a windy day, you will see over two dozen kiteboarders in the water or doing tricks high above it. Most of these riders are ordinary people that are simply addicted to this amazing extreme sport called kiteboarding.
Kiteboarding uses the wind to combine the aspects of surfing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and windsurfing into one extreme ocean sport. The kite, anywhere from 6-20 square meters, powers the rider through the water. The kite will have either 4 or 5 lines up to 27 meters long that connect to a control bar, which the rider pushes and pulls to control the kite in any direction. The bar hooks into the rider’s harness, which is most often worn around the waist. A board similar to a wakeboard or surfboard enables the rider to fly over the water. Check out our kites, boards, and harnesses here
We carry Naish, DaKine, Slingshot, Neil Pryde, Caution, NPX, Starboard, Creatures of Leasure, Ocean and Earth, Werner, Garmin, AzHiAzIaM, MBS, and much more.
The Slingshot Darko delivers reliable performance for all rider levels in all conditions. For beginners and advanced freeriders alike, easy is good. The Slingshot Darko gives you the reliability to take your kiteboarding anywhere you want to go.
The Slingshot Darko utilizes the same premium materials and construction technology that makes all Slingshot kiteboards the industry's finest. Combined with the latest revolution in component performance, the Slingshot Darko is an unbeatable package.
All NEW for 2010, Slingshot introduces the DARKO board series. The 2010 Slingshot DARKO twin tip board is for the more aggressive rider who thrives on high performance and trick progression. The DARKO's unique shape also provides beginners with easy planing and smooth upwind riding. The designer series DARKO is the first twin tip to feature FASTRACK, Slingshot"s proprietary mounting system offering endless stance options and a superior rider to board connection.
The DARKO is also the first board that is equipped with the latest core technology PRT (Progressive Flex Technology). PRT delivers an advanced, smooth, steady yet explosive pop to any freestyle minded rider through the innovative vertically laminated wood core.
Be on the look out for the newest high performance riders as they redefine freestyle kiteboarding with the signature DARKO designer series boards.
CREATIVE NOTE: The DARKO creative is based on original line and pencil drawings by Miq Willmott of Tweeqim Creative Lab. His robust history began as the creative vision for metal rock bands such as Motley Crue, moving onto his role as creative director of Hot Wheels and finally opening his own art center with his wife in Portland, Oregon. Miq currently provides art for such brands as Nike, Mattel, Dell Computers and Slingshot.