Dynamik Kiteboarding

Dynamik Kiteboarding is a kiteboarding and snowkiting school in Minnesota, run by Chad Dobson, who has been riding and teaching in the Midwest kiteboarding community for many years. Lessons run all year: on the water in summer, on frozen lakes in winter. Past students have ranged from 11 to 76 years old.

The program starts with a 3-hour ground introduction with a trainer kite (wind window, theory, launch site selection, weather), taught at different spots around the Twin Cities depending on the day's conditions. It continues with a group lesson on kite control in body drag, then a private on-water lesson, with a jet ski and radio helmets, at Mille Lacs, Lake Waconia, White Bear Lake, Lake Washington or other lakes around the state. A board skills lesson behind the jet ski is offered to beginners with little wakeboard or snowboard experience.

Equipment is provided during lessons, and prepayment is not required: the school only goes out when there is enough wind. Its website also describes Minnesota's kiteboarding lakes (White Bear, Waconia, Mille Lacs, Lake Superior, Minnetonka, Otter Tail, Cannon Lake) and the weather resources for each.