Qualification

Member since
01 May, 2012

Qualifications
Instructor Level 1 Kiteboarder Level 2I Assistant Trainer

Additional Qualifications
Instructor Level 2 Instructor Level 2 Instructor Level 3 Level Check for Kiters

School name	Start date	End date
KiteSafe	19/02/2017	Till date

Feedback

Feedback	Last 6 months	All-time
Overall Rating	[7] votes	[136] votes
Teaching Hours	320	10696
Student Taught	8	378

Rating Details

Rating Details	Votes	Votes
Overall	7	136
Teaching	0	14
Facilities	0	14
Equipment	0	14
Safety	0	14
School Service	0	14

REVIEWS

Mark van Duinen
Utrecht, Netherlands

Reviewed 03 Oct 2022

The video's included with the course could be better. Current there is just a person reading the text from the manual. For that purpose the audio would suffice. Rather, I'd think it would be very useful to show some imagery of how certain things work. For example, our instructor Alex showed a video/simulation of how the air flows around an air foil and how the drag/lift changes with a change in angle of attack. That was very insightful and makes for much quicker learning.

Michel Peters
Haarlem, Netherlands

Reviewed 26 Sep 2022

Joris Heidinga
Heemskerk, Netherlands

Reviewed 26 Sep 2022

Tim Platschorre
Den Haag, Netherlands

Reviewed 26 Sep 2022

Alex did a great job as a trainer and gave us a lot of useful background information on every topic.

Fleur Nol
Haarlem, Netherlands

Reviewed 27 Jun 2022

Jesse Beijer
Castricum, Netherlands

Reviewed 27 Jun 2022

Isam Hadjih
Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands

Reviewed 31 May 2022

Sergio Uribe-echeverria
Enschede, Netherlands

Reviewed 30 May 2022

Joyce Gerber

Reviewed 30 Jul 2021

Loved it! Very happy about it all, the vibes were great!

Maaike Poutsma
Amersfoort, Netherlands

Reviewed 26 Jul 2021

Julien De falbaire
Mauritius

Reviewed 26 Jul 2021

Jody wormsbecher
purmerend, Netherlands

Reviewed 25 Jul 2021

Julia Kooij
Sleeuwijk, Netherlands

Reviewed 08 Jun 2021

We did not have enough wind to show our own skills, we need to send a video as soon as possible! Overall great experience

Allard Fontein
Bergen NH, Netherlands

Reviewed 07 Jun 2021

Alex was the best trainer we could think of. Authentic, professional, reliable and truly committed to share his experience to make us better instructors. Thank you!

Murk Feitsma
Oosterwold , Netherlands

Reviewed 03 May 2021

Jurre Bruijn
Zandvoort, Netherlands

Reviewed 24 Jan 2021

Benedicte Caramin
Corralejo, Spain

Reviewed 05 Oct 2020

Philipp Linz
Haarlem, Netherlands

Reviewed 05 Oct 2020

We couldn't practice the self rescue, landing & launching as we had 30+knots on a busy kite spot so the teacher rightly decided not to do it, safety first.

Marjan Kiewiet
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 05 Oct 2020

Borre Boumans
Houten, Netherlands

Reviewed 24 Aug 2020

tony vanderdonck
antwerpen, Belgium

Reviewed 24 Aug 2020

Jason Ritzer
Wassenaar, Netherlands

Reviewed 23 Aug 2020

Joep van den Brink
Copenhagen, Denmark

Reviewed 20 Jul 2020

Thom Wiersma
'S-GRAVENHAGE, Netherlands

Reviewed 14 Jul 2020

The instructor had to prospone de last 2 days of our course because he had personal business with his brand Harlem kites. Therefor we didn't do any riding ourselves, the owner of the school I work has confirmed that my riding is good enough.

Rob van der Donk
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 13 Jul 2020

Franka Tempelaar
Den Haag, Netherlands

Reviewed 13 Jul 2020

Denise Lobo

Reviewed 21 Oct 2019

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Guus Verstegen
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 20 Oct 2019

Jesse Kribben
Netherlands

Reviewed 19 Oct 2019

Miquel Stierman
Netherlands

Reviewed 19 Oct 2019

Elsbeth Spelt
Wageningen, Netherlands

Reviewed 16 Oct 2019

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B. Simon

Reviewed 16 Oct 2019

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Enver Loke
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Sep 2019

Jhon Perez
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Sep 2019

Astrid Pathuis
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Sep 2019

Lars Nelissen
Dronten, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Sep 2019

Levent Des
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Sep 2019

Klaas Smit
Noordwijk, Netherlands

Reviewed 24 Jul 2019

All in all it was a very nice week

Victor

Reviewed 21 Jul 2019

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Albert Sikkema
Santpoort-noord, Netherlands

Reviewed 20 Jul 2019

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Djoeke de Zandt

Reviewed 20 Jul 2019

kitesurfing with IKO I had a great time during the Iko lessons, all the instructies were positive, patiënt and had a good sense of humor! I wish them all succes and fun on the water!

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Maarten Cox

Reviewed 24 Jun 2019

Clear instructions and lots of great energy during the course!

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Jochum Buijs
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 17 May 2019

Yvette de Koster
Mijdrecht, Netherlands

Reviewed 15 May 2019

Wendy van Vuuren
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 14 May 2019

Ivar Van de Kamp

Reviewed 14 May 2019

Very usefull course and get you to understand more about kitesurfinf

Marcella van Zalingen
Netherlands

Reviewed 14 May 2019

Sannie Kwakman

Reviewed 11 May 2019

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Klaas Vader
Broek op Langedijk, Netherlands

Reviewed 07 May 2019

Thanks Kitesafe I had a super good time and learned a lot. I had a nice welcome and good instructions by Alex and his team of teachers (in training) everybody was really motivated to give good instructions, information about safety, tecniques, posibilities and situations. I had 2x 2.5 hr classes and the team taught me the basic principles and techniques well and fast, next step is the water start, witch I was advised to learn about indoor water instead of the sea with a more experienced teacher. After that I will definitely return for more lessons and fun with the team :-)

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Rene van Soest
Zandvoort, Netherlands

Reviewed 06 May 2019

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Ferry Kager
Netherlands

Reviewed 04 Apr 2019

Katinka de Klerk

Reviewed 19 Oct 2018

Elisabete Eigenmann
Aesch, Switzerland

Reviewed 19 Sep 2018

The course was very informative and I learned alot.

Mariska Bom

Reviewed 13 Sep 2018

Daan Leeflang
Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands

Reviewed 13 Sep 2018

Learned a lot and had a great time with alex and the other students

Rob Koopman
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 13 Sep 2018

I think it’s very complete on the way you’re doing it now

Leila Scheltema
Middelburg, Netherlands

Reviewed 12 Sep 2018

Martin Murruste
Tallinn, Estonia

Reviewed 22 Aug 2018

Had a super nice and experienced instructor!

Alex Salvador
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 06 Aug 2018

Luca Hertfelder
Berlin, Germany

Reviewed 31 Jul 2018

Franciscus Wouters
Reusel, Netherlands

Reviewed 30 Jul 2018

Floor Everts

Reviewed 11 Jul 2018

Edmond Blankespoor
Heemskerk, Netherlands

Reviewed 27 Jun 2018

Learned allot, had a great time!

Aart Jan Kok
Harderwijk , Netherlands

Reviewed 21 Jun 2018

Vincent de Jonge

Reviewed 15 Jun 2018

Miqui Molenaar

Reviewed 11 Jun 2018

Ramon Moreno

Reviewed 11 Jun 2018

Minouc de Brauw

Reviewed 11 Jun 2018

Alex did a great job!!

Eric Plugge
Den Haag, Netherlands

Reviewed 11 Jun 2018

I absolutely would recommend Kitesafe as AITC training center.

Sebastian Meyer
Ķekava, Latvia

Reviewed 11 Jun 2018

Andrea Goudriaan
Dordrecht, Netherlands

Reviewed 11 May 2018

There was unfortunately not much wind during the course. Enough for 2 days of teaching to real students, but rating of our own kite skills was done via video (or in my case, owner of the kiteschool observed me kiting on a wind day outside of the course)

Hendrik-Jan Kaptein
Den Haag, Netherlands

Reviewed 09 May 2018

Theory was very usefull. Trainer was very likeable, only thing is that i think students should get more time to practice. I understand the commercial need, but sometimes they finish a course and do not have enough real skills

David John Bouras
Recklinghausen, Germany

Reviewed 09 May 2018

Niels van den Brink
Netherlands

Reviewed 08 May 2018

marco van der zanden
Den Haag, Netherlands

Reviewed 08 May 2018

Pieter-Jaap Res
Castricum, Netherlands

Reviewed 08 May 2018

Mensonides Floris
Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Apr 2018

Joris van Trotsenburg
Lisserbroek, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Apr 2018

Hello IKO, Thanks for this first step in transforming my passion into my life. Just a little additional feedback: I believe that several subjects in the manuals can be explained by using more simple english words - its quite often that me and other students need to use a dictionary for translating 'expensive words' while it could be easily replaced for simpel words saying the same. Looking forward to the next course. Joris

Sean Fairey
Brest, France

Reviewed 10 Apr 2018

Gerco IJben
Elburg, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Apr 2018

Louise Okker
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Apr 2018

Christian Overdijk
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reviewed 10 Apr 2018

Jelle-Willem van Zelm

Reviewed 25 Sep 2017

The IKO lesson plan leaves limited options for creativity. This is fair, since certain topics have to be covered. However, sometimes i got the feeling we were "going through the book" together, which i can also perfectly do by myself (reading). If possible i would recommend to make sure students read by theirselves, and key topics are presented/discussed in a more (inter-)active way. Overall i was really happy with the AITC-Plus and especially with the performance by the Assistant Trainer, Alexander Morgenstern. Thumbs up, many thanks, and see you on the water. :-)