The year 2020 is folding so quickly with many events and scenes in our memories to remember. I wouldn’t say it felt like 8 hours, but certainly it felt much less than a year, with so many changes happening so fast. My experience with kitesurfing this year, just like almost everything else, got disturbed by…
مع نهاية شهر مايو ، رفعت السلطات الصحية الكويتية الحظر الشامل ، وغيرت الاجراءات الاحترازية بالكارونا إلى حظر التجول الجزئي الذي يسمح للأشخاص بالتنقل والحركة داخل الكويت. جاء رفع الحظر في الوقت المناسب مع تغير المواسم في الكويت، نهاية موسم السرايات والسبّق، وبداية موسم البوارح من يونيو وحتى منتصف يوليو. ومنذ رفع الحظر، أتيحت لي الفرصة للكايت سيرف في عدة مواقع…
Summer season kitesurfing in Kuwait and the hot-blow winds By the end of May, Kuwait health authorities lifted the full lockdown, and adjusted the COVID-19 precautions to partial curfew that allows people mobility and traveling within the country. The lifting of the lockdown came in time with the change in seasons in Kuwait and the…
Happy New Year and may 2020 comes with your wishes and lots of good wind days. I promised earlier to keep track of my kitesurfing days in Kuwait to collect some data that hopefully be useful for other kitesurfers when considering the sport in Kuwait. During 2019 I spent 275 days in Kuwait during which…
We got blessed this month, or since the beginning of Al Wasem Season in Kuwait, which started toward the end of October. Since then, we started to get more windy days, though majority been light winds, few real good winds as well. Last Wednesday was one of the most awesome days, with about 18 knots…
In Kuwait and the region of the Arabia peninsula, meteorologists refer to the appearance of Canopus Star, known for locals as Suhail Star نجم سهيل, as signal of summer end. The Suhail star appears for about 50 days in the skies of Arabia from the end of August to the beginning of October. During this…
I got to Tarifa about the first week of July and I’m about to leave today, wrapping almost a month of Kitesurfing Tarifa coasts. During this period we got 3 or 4 days of strong Levante wind where I went out on 7m dice and 8m dice. And according to the locals, usually summer season…
I got to Tarifa about a week ago, with the Levante wind blowing, I got the chance to have a session on that day. The following days the wind changed direction to Poniente, West direction. On the Levante day, I got to kite on 7m dice on Los Lances beach. The wind was blowing between…
Kitesurfing in Kuwait during the first 6 months of 2019 During the first 6 months of 2019, I spent about 130 days in Kuwait while traveling the rest. Out of the 130 days I was in Kuwait, I went out kiting on 50 days. There were obviously windy days that I missed while traveling, but…
The forecast was showing 22 to 27 knots NNW wind for Dubaiya spot. Though the forecast was higher for Subiya, I preferred going to Dubaiya because the conditions are good enough to enjoy its beautiful beach. I started kiting around 11 am on 9 m Dice, and only switched to 12 m Evo around 4…