Welcome to the Australian Kiteboarding School website and online kiteboarding shop.   Australian Kiteboarding School is a Perth based, premier kitesurfing school offering highest quality kitesurfing lessons on a daily basis between September and May.  We are here to help customers learn to kiteboard safely in Perth.  We are the only school in Perth that do professional one on one instruction, teaching beginners to learn kitesurfing efficiently, safely and whilst having a blast.  We take our school seriously and want to provide the best possible experience to our customers. 

Our two managers, Owner and retail manager Darren Marshall, and School manager Ed Teo, are the only two IKO Examiners (instructor trainers) in Australia, having taught thousands of lessons and hundreds of instructors over the years gives us the kind of experience all other schools can only envy.  It is our job to implement and live the standard and to improve it.  No one has more experience or higher accreditation than AKS which means you're getting the best training possible.

In 2010 AKS celebrates it's 10 year anniversary of providing first class training.  In the past 10 years, AKS has never had a major injury, this is testimony our methods equipment and techniques are the best and safest in the industry and are the product of a 10 year evolution in perfomance and safety.  The Australian Kiteboarding School has been using accredited IKO and prior to IKO, WSN, Instructors since 2001.

The best place to learn to kitesurf in Perth is with AKS.  We make learning kiteboarding easy, safe and fun.  We use the latest radio communication headsets for 100% coaching time and only new model kites and boards.  We offer flexibility of learning through different learning programs, so we have something for everyone.  Check out our lessons page for more details....

Kitesurf lessons start here!

Our school offers latest model Rental Equipment and we have Perth's only Demo centre on the beach where you can come and try any one of up to 11 different boards and 20+ different kites to see what you really like before you buy.

Once you know what you like, you can purchase from us on the beach or from our new retail truck and take your new kite, board, harness, or any other item home with you there and then.  We also sell complimentary items like wind meters, DVD's, trainer kites, repair kits and books on kitesurfing.  Our online kite shop sells a huge range of power kiting related items ranging from boards, kites, wind meters, bags and trainer kites.  We also have a good range of MBS mountain boards and depowerable Ozone land kites to choose from.  

Retail and School. On the Beach!

IKO Kitesurf Centre

IKO Power Kite Centre

We are all about kiting, all aspects of kiting, and are excited to be able to share our passion with others.  There is something magic about flying a kite, even the smaller trainer kites.  It's hard to describe, but I feel it has something to do with the power, the smooth movement and colour that appeals to the unconscious mind that relaxes us so much when flying kites, or maybe it's the freedom of silent traction, or the thrill of controlling masses of potential energy.  Whatever it is for you, it can be found in the ensuing pages of this website.

Kitesurfing is a relatively new sport (since about 1999 in Oz) that has taken the worlds foreshores by storm.  The swelling in numbers of people from all walks of life, of every age group is in itself testimony to the power of the attraction of the kite.    All sporting backgrounds are represented in its members, from wakeboarders, kite flyers, windsurfers, surfers, snowboarders, skaters, paragliders and pilots, not to mention the hordes of people entering the sport with no athletic or board sport back ground at all.

AKS 2009 Demo boards

I invite you into our website and trust you'll find knowledge, entertainment, inspiration and fun within its pages.  Take a lesson with us or buy a trainer kite and get started in what is most likely a pivotal moment in your life, the day you started flying power kites!  A day no doubt that will lead you on a new path of more fun in your life, new passion and vitality through fun and exercise.

Once you have mastered the basics of flying, why not join us on a kitesurfari, or a big downwinder?  Maybe join in on a kite clinic for total emersion therapy of kites for a week or maybe the thrill of one of our slalom race events.  Whatever you choose, AKS can be your gateway to kite sports.  Give us a call after you have had a browse around.  I wish you steady winds and blue skies. 

Thanks for visiting our site,

Darren Marshall

Owner/Manager AKS

Kitesurfing and AKS