My passion for water sports started at a young age when I started tingly sailing, then windsurf racing giving me the experience to get my first qualification as an RYA windsurf instructor in 1992, since then the sports have changed, but not the passion.
A litttle history about CKS and it’s founder…
CKS started in 2000 when i first started teaching and founded this amazing sport of kiteboarding in Venezuela.
Since then i have acquired a vast knowledge of kite sports and have had the privilege to have taught people from over 32 different countrys with now over 20,000 hours of teaching experience along with being a qualified IKO instructor since 2000 and Spanish qualified wind sports instructor since 2021.
Kite Freestyle has been my passion for so many years but Strapless and Foiling is a perfect complement to improve balance and experience different sensations along with land kite sports like mountainboarding and buggying.
Previous owner of 2 kites schools which i founded the first in 2000 in Isla de Margarita and the second on Isla de Coche in 2003 until 2017 when i moved to Tarifa, Spain for a year and now based on Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Thanks to my multi sports career starting at a young age allows my experience of different sports to be translated into kiting/wingfoiling, finding the best and most efficient way of understanding along with fast progression.
Learn, Improve, Ride, Fly High.
Work Experiance:
Coaching Kite Sports, Tenerife
11/2019 – Present
El Medano.
Personlised Kite & Wingfoil coaching
- The CKS concept is to give a better general understanding of kite sports providing a fun, efficient and safe ways to take each person to the next level in their riding, no matter what the goals are.
- Classes & Clinics are mostly Private and Personalised, offering video and photo analysis so being able to see each persons performance/mistakes along with the latest radio technology from BB Talkin (2 way communication) allowing consistent feedback at all times on the water making for faster and safer progression.
Duotone Pro Center, Tenerife
(6/2018 – 9/2019)
El Medano.
Center/Sports Manager and Kite Specialist.
- Client attention and general running of the center. Giving group/private kite, windsurf, surf & sup classes. Creation of sales and written materials along with center promotions. Direct Repairs or organization of equipment needing repair. Control/head instructor for 5 months of a group kids multi sports project, (Play with the sea).
Tarifa Air Force, España
(06/2017 – 10/2017)
Tarifa.
Instructor & equipment control
- Private / group kite classes, general organisation of classes & equipment. Occasional SUP safaris.
- 2017 North Dealer meeting – Assisting daily the dealers with info and equipment. Preparation and pack down of the kite, windsurf and sup equipment along with sales stands etc.
Coche Kite Sports Center
(11/2003 – 2/2018)
Isla de Coche, Venezuela
Owner, Instructor & Director.
- Head Instructor/Boss in charge of day to day organisation of classes, clinics, events, kite guide and promotor of kite in Vzla.
- Contact with tour operators, direct national & international reservations. Tourist information. Importation, promotion & sales of equipment brands. Maintenance and basic repairs of the equipment. The center consisted of a kite sports school, small kite shop, storage of equipment, kite rescue service, day trips, beach seats and shadings, repairs and also a bar offering snacks during the day along with pre reserved private beach front dinners.
- In total i gave around 12.500hrs of classes in CKS Coche, Venezuela.
Coaching Kite Sports 