You already ride upwind
You go upwind on your own (≈ IKO Level 3), do transitions, maybe small jumps — and you want unhooked tricks, bigger air and pop. You're in exactly the right place.
Freestyle coaching · El Gouna, Egypt · since 2004
Freestyle coaching in El Gouna. Where a world champion trains.
Butter-flat lagoon water. Steady cross-onshore wind. And coaching from a team rider who works with the best in the world. This is where good kiters go unhooked.
Typical conditions: 15–25 kt N–NW typical · gusting to 28 kt · water level varies with tide
- Coached by an IKO Level-3 coach
- ★ 4.8 / 549
- 250+ kites to try on the water
- Max 2 riders per coach
Freestyle is coaching, not a first lesson
Start where you actually are.
Freestyle is an Evolution discipline — coaching for riders who already ride. We'd rather send you to the right place than sell you the wrong one.
Never ridden before?
Begin with our 8-hour Zero to Hero beginner course — from your first kite to riding upwind. Then come back for freestyle.
Why tricks are born here
Flat water is where tricks are born.
The first roughly 800 m teaching area has flat, knee-to-waist-deep water over sand — often stand and reset when the actual depth suits the rider and location. Water is usually flat, but chop and water movement vary; prevailing wind is generally N–NW with a cross-onshore component of 15–25 kt. The independent zone is your freestyle playground; rescue support is available during operating hours, but a specific intervention or response time cannot be guaranteed.
- 2–3 km × ~1 km private gated lagoon — endless room to send it
- Crash-friendly: shallow, sandy, no reef near the beach
- 300+ windy days a year — measured by our own station
- Oldest kite school in El Gouna, since 2004
Coached by the eye that sharpens a world champion
The same coach who works with a GKA World Champion sets up your session.
Finn Flügel — 2025 GKA Freestyle World Champion — trains at our home spot, coached by our co-owner Lukáš, an IKO Level-3 coach across every discipline and a team rider for Flysurfer and Levitaz. The same eye that fine-tunes a champion's handle pass watches your edge — in plain language, in your ear, mid-trick.
🏆 GKA Freestyle World Champion 2025 trains here IKO Level-3 coach Flysurfer & Levitaz team rider
4.8★ from 549 reviews
2004oldest in El Gouna
5,500+riders a year
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Finn Flügel
2025 GKA Freestyle World Champion
Trains at our home spot — coached by co-owner Lukáš.
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Paula Novotná
2022 GWA Wingfoil Surf-Freestyle World Champion
Comes to Kitepower to ride, recharge and enjoy the flat water.
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Ellie Dimitrova
Pro kitesurfer · Flysurfer international team rider
A regular on our lagoon — riding the same Flysurfer kites we teach with.
Your trick ladder
Edge it. Pop it. Land it. Then add style.
We enter the ladder at your current level and build one movement on the last. It is a coaching route, not a fixed syllabus, calendar or promised trick; your foundations and the conditions set the pace.
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01 Foundations
Edge before airtime
You already ride upwind, do transitions and maybe small jumps. We sharpen that control and the loaded edge that every freestyle attempt starts from. Not there yet? Begin with the 8-hour Basic course first.
Foundations -
02 Pop & landing
Load. Release. Land with control.
Build a clean pop from the board, then bring kite, board and body back together for a deliberate landing before adding more movement.
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03 First tricks
Unhook, grab, rotate
Work from controlled unhooked riding into grabs and rotations. Raley or S-bend drills are introduced attempt by attempt when your foundations are ready, with live feedback in your ear.
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04 Next level
Connect the timing toward a handle pass
Bring pop, bar movement and timing into one sequence. This is a direction, not a promised result: real freestyle develops over sessions, at a pace set by your starting level and the conditions.
Next level
Know the move that keeps breaking down? Send us a clip so the first session can start with the right drill.
See open-hours pricing ↓Real-time coaching in your ear
We fix the trick mid-attempt — and you can talk back.
Two-way BB Talkin Bluetooth helmets mean your coach corrects the trick the moment it goes wrong — and you can ask back, in real time. For freestyle, where a fraction of a second decides the pass, that two-way line is the difference. Most schools have one-way radios or nothing at all.
- Standard max 2 riders per coach — often just you
- Advanced groups up to 4 on request for capable, level-matched riders with multiple complete setups
- Two-way feedback — correction the instant the trick happens
- Wind Guarantee — booked hours never expire if the wind drops
- 8 languages on the beach — coached in your own
How freestyle coaching is priced
Pay for the hours you ride.
Advanced riders book Open Hours — pay-as-you-go coaching, priced per hour by the total hours you ride. The more you ride, the lower the rate. There's no rigid "advanced course" — you build the block you want, with your coach.
| Open Hours · per hour | 2 riders | Private 1:1 |
|---|---|---|
| 1h | €80 | €110 |
| 2–4h | €75 | €105 |
| 5–8h | €70 | €100 |
| 9h+ | €60 | €90 |
| Book in the booking app | ||
Rate is set by your total hours ridden — ride 5 hours over a week and you're in the 5–8 h tier. Not sure how many hours you need? Send us a clip on WhatsApp and we'll suggest a realistic block. New here? Compare the structured Refresh courses.
How semi-private pairing works: semi-private means 2 students of similar weight share one kite. If we can’t pair you with a same-weight partner, you have two options — ride private 1:1 at the private rate, or keep the semi-private price and ride 1:1 for the equivalent (shorter) water time. You’re told up front, so it’s never a surprise and you never pay more than you booked.
Pick your window with real numbers
Plan your trip on data, not marketing.
About 77% of days a year are rideable — peaking around 85% in August. We measure it ourselves with our own weather station (2 million+ readings over 4 years), plus a 16-day forecast and a live webcam. Summer is boardshorts; winter means a full wetsuit, not a shorty.
| Month | Rideable days |
|---|---|
| January | 63% |
| February | 80% |
| March | 62% |
| April | 65% |
| May | 69% |
| June | 83% |
| July | 63% |
| August | 85% |
| September | 83% |
| October | 81% |
| November | 75% |
| December | 61% |
A day counts as rideable when the wind holds ≥ 12 kt for at least 2 daytime hours — i.e. a real session is on.