Member

Andrew Redilla

  • Date of Lesson: 09/26/2013
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • PASA ICP Course: September 23-27 Instructor: Gil Sharell

10

Jamie Bond

  • Date of Lesson: 09/26/2013
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • PASA ICP Course Instructor: Gil Sharell

10

Bradley Markowski

  • Date of Lesson: 09/26/2013
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • PASA ICP Course Instructor: Gil Sharell

10

Andrew Hampson

  • Date of Lesson: 09/26/2013
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • PASA ICP Course Instructor: Gil Sharell

10

James Martinez

  • Date of Lesson: 02/12/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Completed 3+ hours of ground school and 2+ hours of water instruction. 30 years experience surfing and avid wakeboarder. Plans to schedule supervised riding to improve skills.

10

Philip S. Dakin

  • Date of Lesson: 02/22/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Retired person. Sports: airplane pilot, former windsurfer, hang glider, parachute via military, and avid sailor. Seeks to grasp basics of kiteboarding and achieve skills for easy free riding.

10

Philip S. Dakin

  • Date of Lesson: 02/22/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Retired person. Sports: airplane pilot, former windsurfer, hang glider, parachute via military, and avid sailor. Seeks to grasp basics of kiteboarding and achieve skills for easy free riding.

10

Philip S. Dakin

  • Date of Lesson: 02/22/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Retired person. Sports: airplane pilot, former windsurfer, hang glider, parachute via military, and avid sailor. Seeks to grasp basics of kiteboarding and achieve skills for easy free riding.

10

Bill Merdzan

  • Date of Lesson: 02/23/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Toronto Canada resident in FL for holidays. Sought to learn basics and plans to buy trainer kite while taking more lessons in Canada. Very impressed with PASA.

10

Tomasz Piskorski

  • Date of Lesson: 03/07/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Enrolled in kiteboarding lessons several years ago with another instructor and purchased own gear. Seeks PASA certification and to expand skills.

10

David Houlihan

  • Date of Lesson: 04/29/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Ground school 3/29/14 and water lessons completed on 3/29/14.

10

Jason Wolfe

  • Date of Lesson: 07/12/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Excellent kite skills. Owned kite gear prior to taking first lessons. EMT/Fire background. Good safety skills.

10

Christian Kechriotis

  • Date of Lesson: 08/07/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Christian was a naturally talented board rider (i.e. coming from a wakeboarding background) who took to flying kites rapidly. Christian made his waterstarts look easy to everyone watching.

10

Jeffrey Veriere

  • Date of Lesson: 08/07/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jeffrey was visiting for a week from France and wanted to begin learning about kiteboarding. Fortunately, wind was good so he completed 3 hours of ground school and 2 follow up water lessons. Jeffrey plans on continuing his skills progression in Normandy.

10

Jeffrey Verdiere

  • Date of Lesson: 08/07/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jeffrey was visiting for a week from France and wanted to begin learning about kiteboarding. Fortunately, wind was good so he completed 3 hours of ground school and 2 follow up water lessons. Jeffrey plans on continuing his skills progression in Normandy.

10

Robert Marie

  • Date of Lesson: 08/07/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Robert resides in Canada and vacations in Sarasota with family. Took an interest in kiteboarding and enrolled himself and three family members for PASA lessons including certification.

10

Chloe Provencher Marie

  • Date of Lesson: 08/07/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Chloe completed 3-hour ground school plus two additional water lessons. Improves skills quickly, mastering each step. Hopes to take additional lessons before returning to school.

10

Callum Fletcher

  • Date of Lesson: 09/25/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Callum completed 2.5 hours of ground school and 3 hours of water training to earn his PASA Level 1 certification. Prior board riding experience helped him ride 5 times during lesson, as well complete multiple power strokes while riding.

10

Peter Hull

  • Date of Lesson: 10/12/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Pete is a former windsurfer and avid waterman. Flies his trainer kite outside of lessons. Seeks to kite local sandbars and beaches.

10

Carlos Garcia

  • Date of Lesson: 11/02/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • New to boardsports. Plans to purchase a trainer kite to build flying skills. Also, indicated he wishes to take supervised riding lessons.

10

Megan Donahue

  • Date of Lesson: 11/04/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Meg seeks to build skills by flying her trainer kite and practice with more lessons. Goal is free riding off local beach in lighter wind conditions. Also, looking to connect with others in kiteboarding community.

10

Peter Henry

  • Date of Lesson: 11/14/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 2
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Peter began kiteboarding lessons nearly one year ago at a school near his residence on Long Island, New York. He did not obtain a certification upon completion and requested an evaluation of his present level acquired. Peter said he owns a trainer kite. He demonstrated proficiency launching and landing a LEI kite. Also, showed control while flying and short distance riding. Over two hours, he rode progressively longer, up to several hundred feet and shows ability to control his stops. He is able to do basic stop and drop transitions returning to his landward point of origin, not staying upwind. He demonstrated a successful self rescue in deep water.

10

David Dimitri

  • Date of Lesson: 11/18/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • David, an acclaimed high wire artist and performer, took to kite flying nearly immediately. Completed 4 hours of ground school and 2 hours water training beachside and in Sarasota Bay. He wishes to continue his skills progression after returning from a tour in Europe in 2015.

10

Justin Dunning

  • Date of Lesson: 11/21/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Justin had strong kite skills prior to taking lessons, having owned a trainer kite and taken some instruction from a family member. Goals are to progress and ride seasonally in Canada and elsewhere. Prior background in board sports includes, surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding.

10

Mark Obendorf

  • Date of Lesson: 11/23/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Mark has a sailing and other watersports background. Recently purchased a trainer kite and intends to build kite skills between lessons. Goal includes free riding and travel to new places to kite.

10

Stefan Stephenson-Moe

  • Date of Lesson: 11/30/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Stefan has prior board riding skills so his water starts were controlled with good edging. He plans on purchasing a trainer kite to build kite skills as he has not flown power kites in the past. He hopes to do supervised riding to build skills and get riding.

10

Scott Burry

  • Date of Lesson: 12/22/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Scott showed great kite control and an understanding of board control (edging and finning). He purchased pre-owned equipment (North 5 line system) from a third party, prior to lessons. We spent time after a lesson to set up his gear and demo it. Scott plans on taking supervised riding lessons in the future.

10

Jackson Burke

  • Date of Lesson: 12/21/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jackson earned his Level 1 certification with a group while on holiday. During the three hour land class, he fly a trainer and fly an LEI during the 2 hour water lessons.

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Ben Dippold

  • Date of Lesson: 12/21/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Ben earned his PASA Level 1 certification while on vacation in Sarasota from Kansas with a group.

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Kevin Dippold

  • Date of Lesson: 12/21/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Kevin completed the PASA Level 1 certification while visiting with his brother from KS.

10

Haley Burke

  • Date of Lesson: 12/21/2014
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Haley was visiting from Denver, CO and completed the PASA Level 1 Certification. Good kite skills and water starts.

10

Liam Smith

  • Date of Lesson: 01/01/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Liam visited Sarasota from Ottawa, Ont., and took the opportunity to certify. Learned flying skills quickly. Executed water starts and rode short distances in both directions.

10

Aldea Meary-Miller

  • Date of Lesson: 01/03/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Aldea completed PASA Level 1 certification while on vacation. She has prior board riding experience (e.g. wakeboarding). She showed kite control skills and understanding of equipment.

10

Alden Siperstein

  • Date of Lesson: 01/03/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Alden completed a level 1 certification while on vacation from Ohio. He was able to fly and dive kite consistently for exercises.

10

John J. Velez

  • Date of Lesson: 02/07/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • John recently retired to Osprey, FL and is looking to join the kiteboarding community. Prior kiteboarding ground training from another instructor. Plans to fly his trainer kite for practice and take additional water lessons.

10

Peter Darrah

  • Date of Lesson: 02/06/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 2
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Peter was visiting from Beachburg, Ontario and wanted to do some supervised riding as well join PASA. Demonstrated skills for Level 2 rider and performed a self rescue exercise.

10

Alex Andegren

  • Date of Lesson: 02/21/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Alex, visiting from Sweden enrolled in lessons after his father completed his Level 1 certification.

10

Kurt Mueller

  • Date of Lesson: 03/11/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Improved kite piloting skills well during lessons. Executed nice water re-launches, working on boarding component with additional lessons.

10

Thomas E. LaStrange

  • Date of Lesson: 03/19/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Tom completed the PASA Level 1 Certification over two days. He plans to purchase a power kite for practicing.

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Jeff Mackey

  • Date of Lesson: 03/25/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jeff completed PASA Level training while visiting from Ohio over several days. Plans to take additional lessons and review trainer kites for purchase.

10

Eli Jones

  • Date of Lesson: 03/26/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Eli completed both ground school and the water component over two days. He had prior trainer kite experience and plans to continue flying his trainer until purchasing LEI gear.

10

Mike Thomas

  • Date of Lesson: 04/25/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Mike completed his PASA Level 1 certification over two days while on vacation from Canada. He had prior windsurfing experience and board riding skills from snowboarding.

10

Christopher Barngrover

  • Date of Lesson: 05/03/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Chris completed his ground component several months prior to finishing his water lessons. He used the time to purchase and fly a small power kite for training. Chris a snowboarding background and took to the kiteboard quickly.

10

Rick Anderson

  • Date of Lesson: 05/21/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Rick is a commercial pilot, former services, seeking PASA certification. He purchased a trainer kite after ground school and practices on own. Completed water lessons with additional practice waterside. Good kite skills. Plans to continue training with future lessons with focus on board riding.

10

Laine Phillips

  • Date of Lesson: 05/30/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Laine earned her PASA Level 1 Certification while visiting Sarasota with her family. Great progress on water starts. She hopes to continue her skill development by taking additional lessons.

10

Jason Phillips

  • Date of Lesson: 05/30/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jason and his wife own a vacation home in SRQ and signed up his family for kiteboarding lessons. Plans to purchase a trainer kite and take add'l lessons in future.

10

Gray Phillips

  • Date of Lesson: 05/30/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Gray completed his PASA level 1 certification with his family. He exercised good kite control and completed controlled water starts. He plans to practice and take add'l lessons. Family plans to purchase trainer kite to practice between lessons.

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Lou Phillips

  • Date of Lesson: 05/30/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Lou Phillips completed her certification with her family while visiting from TN. Showed nice flying skills and self attempted water start. She plans on continuing kiteboarding lessons and practice flying a trainer kite.

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Ethan Hull

  • Date of Lesson: 06/08/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Ethan was on vacation with his family from Tennessee. Completed PASA Level 1 Certification in two days on beachside at Siesta Key and Sarasota Bay. Owned gear prior to taking lessons and had strong kite flying skills.

10

Jacob Strauss

  • Date of Lesson: 06/27/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jacob owns and flew a trainer kite prior to lessons. He demonstrated good kite skills during certification. He plans to work on further developing his board skills by purchasing a wakeboard to use behind a family boat. Plans to take additional lessons.

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Randall White

  • Date of Lesson: 06/28/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Randy moved to Sarasota from Hawaii and wanted to learn to kiteboard to fill in the gaps between traditional surfing. Randy plans to use his trainer kite to practice and take supervised riding lessons.

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Russell Makepeace

  • Date of Lesson: 07/14/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Russell earned his PASA Level Certification while on vacation to SRQ. Originally learned to board ride in Western Australia. Plans to practice flying his power kite and take additional lessons to progress.

10

Michael McDonald

  • Date of Lesson: 07/19/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Mike completed his PASA Level 1 certification. Flew a trainer kite prior to lessons and had previous board riding experience. Mike plans to take additional lessons to work on water starts, riding longer distances, and transitions.

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Greg L. Tate

  • Date of Lesson: 07/29/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Greg was visiting Longboat Key from Tampa and completed PASA L1. Plans to practice flying his trainer kite and observing local kite spots for future use.

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Holly Allaire

  • Date of Lesson: 07/31/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Holly completed her Level 1 certification while visiting from Texas. She plans to continue taking lessons to advance and develop board skills.

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Robin Dimitri

  • Date of Lesson: 08/03/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Robin completed his PASA L1 certification following his dad and brother. He had excellent entry flying skills and rode short distances while controlling the kite during water starts.

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Ian MacRae

  • Date of Lesson: 10/03/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Ian was visiting from Canada. Completed PASA Level 1 Cert. Plans to continue developing skills with more lessons.

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Sherri Brunner

  • Date of Lesson: 10/04/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Sherri completed the certification with her family. Water skiing background. Plans to purchase a trainer kite to practice.

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Bobby Brunner

  • Date of Lesson: 10/04/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Bobby completed PASA Level 1 certification with family. Quickly picked up riding and flying/controlling the kite.

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Larry Brunner

  • Date of Lesson: 10/04/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Larry completed PASA Level 1 Certification with his family.

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David Altszuler

  • Date of Lesson: 12/19/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • David's family gifted him lessons while on holiday from NY. David completed 3 hours of ground school plus water lessons during his visit to Sarasota.

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James H Krummel

  • Date of Lesson: 12/12/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • James moved to Sarasota recently, looking for new sport locally.

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Andrew Dowd

  • Date of Lesson: 12/26/2015
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Andrew was visiting grandparents in Sarasota from NY. Completed training and plans to continue on future visits.

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Tomas Caballero

  • Date of Lesson: 01/13/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Tomas's background as snowboarding instructor helped him with his kiteboard riding. He showed good kite control during water starts and plans to work on flying blind and one handed. Going to take another lesson to practice skills learned.

10

Mark A. Dolan

  • Date of Lesson: 02/06/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Mark lives in Canada and winters in Florida where he plans to kiteboard seasonally. Background includes windsurfing. Plans to fly a trainer kite in between lessons. Continue to work on board skills.

10

Steven Devine

  • Date of Lesson: 02/27/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Steve was visiting his daughter from WA. Completed his L1 certification. Plans to purchase a trainer kite and continue power kite flying skills.

10

Hannah Smith

  • Date of Lesson: 03/20/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Hannah has a snowboarding background. She picked up kite flying with control quickly. She's able to control board and square up for water starts but will focus on riding downwind to build speed for continued riding.

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Daniel Parlock

  • Date of Lesson: 03/20/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Daniel has a boarding and parachuting background. Good kite control, self water starts, and walking with kite. Plans to practice with a trainer kite to build skills flying one handed, blind. Needs to focus on boarding, going flat with board and building speed.

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Tanja Chevalier

  • Date of Lesson: 03/25/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Tanja's background included wind surfing, sailing and snow skiing. Understanding sailing components as well as edging. Plans to practice kite flying with a trainer in between taking additional PASA training while traveling. Eventual goal to kite lakes.

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Simon Siegert

  • Date of Lesson: 04/02/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Simon has a background in air and water sports. Living in Sarasota from Columbia. Goal is use his boat to access local sandbars and develop skills for riding beachside solo. Developed kite skill quickly, excellent water starts, working on edging less, flatter board position for building speed and downwind angle.

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Kobe Black

  • Date of Lesson: 04/02/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Kobe did well flying, control and independent water starts. He plans to purchase a trainer kite and work on flying blind and one handed. Riding short distances, needs to focus on board direction and edging.

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Charles Daines

  • Date of Lesson: 04/01/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Charles works in aviation out of Punta Gorda. Completed L1 certification to build on surfing and skateboarding background. Wants to kite beachside independently. Good kite flying skills, owns a kite he plans to practice with and take additional lessons.

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Joel Kerns

  • Date of Lesson: 04/14/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Joel was visiting Siesta Key with his family beachside. Brought own gear, self taught and wanted to complete PASA training.

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Watt Humphrey

  • Date of Lesson: 04/23/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Watts lives locally in Sarasota, practices with trainer kite and tow park, completed L1 and plans to take open water lesson for extended riding.

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Stephen Bowen

  • Date of Lesson: 10/23/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Beau divides his time between Texas and Florida. Plans to kiteboard primarily in Florida. Purchasing a trainer kite to practice independently. Interested in additional lessons, continue training with PASA.

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Chris Demaria

  • Date of Lesson: 11/03/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Chris completed both PASA ground and water components as well as an additional water lesson while visiting Sarasota from New York. Demonstrated several successful water starts and was able to relaunch independently.

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Anil Bhagwat

  • Date of Lesson: 11/03/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Anil completed ground and a water lesson with another student. He showed good kite control during his first water lesson. Anil is new to watersports and board riding so he scheduled lessons at a local tow park to build boarding skills before his next lesson. Additionally, he plans on purchasing a trainer kite to practice kite skills.

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Justin Larrick

  • Date of Lesson: 03/26/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Justin began lessons in March 2016 completing the ground class but due to personal schedule and wind conditions, was unable to complete the water component until November 6th. In all, he completed 3+ hours of ground and two water classes. He plans on scheduling a group lesson to practice water starts and extended riding.

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Dale Zwizinski

  • Date of Lesson: 03/26/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Dale completed his ground class in March 2016 and returned twice to complete the water component. He plans to purchase a trainer kite to practice flying skills. Demonstrated water starts and rode for a short distance. Intends to practice open water flying and water starts with an additional lesson.

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William Waite

  • Date of Lesson: 11/27/2016
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 8
  • Communication: 10
  • Bill lives in Illinois and decided to take his first lessons while on vacation in SRQ. He has a wakeboarding and water skiing background. He demonstrated kite control and ability to maintain board control on water starts. He plans on purchasing a trainer kite to practice. Additionally, he plans to continue taking PASA lessons.

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Stephen Vogt

  • Date of Lesson: 03/05/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Steve and his wife had completed an intro kiteboarding lesson four years prior while visiting family locally with another school. Both wanted a refresher course and to build upon kiting skills. Wind allowed over four hours of instruction enabling completion of PASA L1.

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Christine Vogt

  • Date of Lesson: 03/05/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Christine had completed an intro kiteboarding lesson with another school four years prior while visiting family locally. She wanted a refresher course and to build upon earlier kiting skills. Wind allowed over four hours of instruction enabling completion of PASA L1.

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Bethany Dotson

  • Date of Lesson: 03/19/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Bethany completed PASA L1 course while visiting from WA. She had prior boardriding and watersports experience.

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Bradley Dotson

  • Date of Lesson: 03/19/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Brad completed PASA L1 certification while on vacation from WA with his wife. Demonstrated good kite skills from prior stunt kite flying. Background included board and water sports. Plans on taking additional lessons.

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Tony Kemper

  • Date of Lesson: 03/24/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Tony returned to kiteboarding after originally taking lessons at Reel Kiteboarding in NC fiver years ago. He completed the PASA L1 certification with his son while visiting SRQ. Recommended further building board skills with lessons at Mccormick's cable park. Also, practice on trainer flying one handed and blind.

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Deke Kemper

  • Date of Lesson: 03/24/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Deke completed PASA L1 cert. He had prior trainer kite flying experience and showed strong kite flying skills. Was able to execute water starts away from the instructor and control kite and board. Plans to work on board skills at a cable park and continue practicing on trainer kite.

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Pat Biergans

  • Date of Lesson: 04/04/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Pat completed L1 training with his sons while on vacation from MI. Plans to take additional lessons. Purchased a trainer kite and plans to fly 10 hrs to build skills flying one handed and blind.

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Owen Biergans

  • Date of Lesson: 04/04/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Owen completed both land and water components for PASA L1 cert. He plans to fly a trainer for practice and take additional lessons to build skills.

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Kevin Biergans

  • Date of Lesson: 04/04/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Kevin completed land and ground components of L1 PASA cert. He plans to practice on trainer kite and continue to take lessons with his family.

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Nate Biergans

  • Date of Lesson: 04/04/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Nate completed ground and land components for PASA L1 cert. Plans to continue with trainer kite and take additional lessons.

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Sean Wescott

  • Date of Lesson: 04/09/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Sean completed L1 PASA certification while visiting from N.H. No prior background with sailing or kites but had snowboarding experience. Demonstrated exceptional kite skills for first time flying and was able to ride short distances. Plans to purchase a trainer kite and take additional lessons.

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Jason Bransom

  • Date of Lesson: 04/15/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jason completed PASA L1 ground + water while on vacation with his brother. Plans to continue training in Sweden. Suggested trainer kite to practice.

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Trevor Bransome

  • Date of Lesson: 04/15/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Trevor completed PASA L1 ground and water while visiting with family from Sweden. Plans to continue training at home. Note, telephone number is international so need to add zero at end. Field not accommodating international phone numbers.

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Francois Plante

  • Date of Lesson: 04/26/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Francois and his wife completed PASA L1 while visiting from Canada. Plans to purchase trainer kite and may visit cable park to practice board water start skills.

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Line Plante

  • Date of Lesson: 04/26/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Line completed PASA L1 Certification while on vacation with her husband. Plans to take additional lessons and practice with a trainer kite.

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Clay Christopherson

  • Date of Lesson: 04/23/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Clay completed PASA L1 course and plans to continue with lessons. Additionally, plans to purchase a trainer kite to practice flying one handed and blind. Showed good board control during water starts.

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Line Lapierre

  • Date of Lesson: 04/26/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10

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William Raynes

  • Date of Lesson: 05/01/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Bill completed L1 Cert., living locally. He had prior power kite experience and board experience. Road downwind and managed kite for water starts. Plans to board ride at cable park.

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Rosemary Murphy

  • Date of Lesson: 05/20/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Rosemary completed PASA L1 with her sister while visiting Sarasota. She demonstrated good kite control and rode an extended distance. Rosemary plans to purchase a trainer kite.

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Laura Murphy

  • Date of Lesson: 05/20/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Laura completed L1 certification. She demonstrated good kite flying and boarding skills, riding good distance on initial water start. She plans to practice with a trainer kite and resume lessons in future.

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Graham A. Kaiser

  • Date of Lesson: 07/13/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Graham completed PASA L1 certification while visiting Sarasota. He plans to purchase a trainer kite as well as take additional lessons in the future. Graham may build board skills if available cable park in CT.

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Johan Ljungberg

  • Date of Lesson: 07/29/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Johan completed ground + water lessons to complete L1 PASA certification. Plans to purchase a trainer kite and possibly train at local cable park. Seasonal resident, returning in October 2017.

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Joakim Norberg

  • Date of Lesson: 07/30/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Joakim completed L1 certification. Seasonal resident. Former windsurfer. Plans to practice between lessons with trainer kite.

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Bruce Henderson

  • Date of Lesson: 09/17/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Bruce completed his ground work July 8, 2017 and finished up his L1 certification when wind was sufficient. Practiced on a trainer kite. Good kite skills and was able to ride extended distance during his water start. Plans to continue with open water training.

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Jacob Woolf

  • Date of Lesson: 10/21/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jacob completed the PASA L1 training with his father. They intend to continue training with a small power kite and a visit to the cable park. Jacob demonstrated good kite control and body dragging.

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Michael Woolf

  • Date of Lesson: 10/22/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Mike and son Jacob completed PASA L1 training. Mike owns jet skis and wishes to kiteboard bayside for practice. Explained buoy usage with kites. Plans to develop board skill further at cable park and purchase a trainer kite.

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Michael Murphy

  • Date of Lesson: 10/21/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Mike was visiting his brother in law on Siesta Key and completed PASA level 1 training. Mike demonstrated correct techniques and good skills. Plans to purchase a trainer kite and continue with lessons. Edging during water starts and pulling in the control bar are two areas of focus.

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Jamie Cameron

  • Date of Lesson: 11/14/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 2
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jamie completed L2 PASA training while visiting from UK. He had prior lessons and experience as well as other watersports experience.

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Sean Wescott

  • Date of Lesson: 12/10/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 2
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Sean returned on 12/10/17 from 4/9/17 to completed PASA Level 2 certification. Rode extended tacks. Self water starts.

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Tyler Foulks

  • Date of Lesson: 01/06/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Tyler relocated to Sarasota from Northern California. Background includes wakeboarding, surfing, and snowboarding. Had flown a trainer kite and demonstrated good control. Need to working on flying one handed and blind. Rode extended distances on water starts, good board skills. Plans to take additional lesson to work on open water riding and transitions.

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Allan Baily

  • Date of Lesson: 12/29/2017
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Allan completed Level 1 certification while back from college. He had prior airsports training as well as board sports, snowboarding. He plans on continuing PASA training in the Spring and Summer 2018.

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Jeff McTavish

  • Date of Lesson: 03/07/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jeff completed the PASA Level 1 certification while visiting from Virginia with his son. Completed the ground component March 4th and water component on March 7th. Owns a trainer kite and plans to practice flying and possibly visit a cable park to work on water starts.

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Griffith McTavish

  • Date of Lesson: 03/07/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Griff completed the PASA Level 1 certification while visiting from Virginia with his dad. Completed the ground component March 4th and water component on March 7th. Owns a trainer kite and plans to practice flying and possibly visit a cable park to work on water starts

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Juan Torres

  • Date of Lesson: 03/28/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Juan completed Level 1 PASA training. He plans to purchase a slingshot trainer kite to practice before additional lessons.

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Robert Getter

  • Date of Lesson: 03/28/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Bobby complete PASA Level 1 training while visiting Sarasota. He plans on purchase a trainer kite and possibly visiting a local cable park to practice water starts.

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Charlie DeFazio

  • Date of Lesson: 05/04/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Charlie completed both ground and water classes for PASA L1 training. He own a trainer kite and plans to practice kite skills as well as work on board skill at McCormick Cable Park.

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Kary Zarem

  • Date of Lesson: 05/05/2018
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Kary completed ground and water components together. Demonstrated good control (board and kite). Extensive prior water sports background. Plans to practice further on trainer kite and take further lessons.

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Aidan Farrell

  • Date of Lesson: 01/19/2019
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Aidan completed both Level 1 ground and water training. He had prior kite flying skills having owned a trainer kite. 3-yrs of prior wakeboarding experience, no sailing background. Plans to continue on with instruction developing water start skills.

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Tessa Johnson

  • Date of Lesson: 02/23/2019
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Tessa completed PASA L1 training with her mom while visiting MI. Prior skiing and snowboarding background. Plans to purchase a trainer kite to practice and possibly take lessons on lakes in MI.

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Jane Johnson

  • Date of Lesson: 02/23/2019
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Jane completed PASA L1 ground and water components with her daughter Tessa. Jane plans to practice on a trainer independently.

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James Rae

  • Date of Lesson: 03/27/2019
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • James completed ground + water independently while visiting on Lido from Scotland. Completed water starts and riding for short distances. Plans to purchase a trainer kite to practice and further develop kite skills.

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Max Riveros

  • Date of Lesson: 10/26/2019
  • PASA Level Acquired: 1
  • Enthusiasm: 10
  • Professionalism: 10
  • Patience: 10
  • Safety: 10
  • Communication: 10
  • Windsports for Wounded Warrior (Suncoast Chapter) retreat. Completed ground component and water components.

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