The Kiteboarding Manual: The essential guide for beginners and improvers Paperback – June 9, 2015

Great read, very interesting overall reference, nothing crazy in depth, but appreciate that it has sections on weather, tides, science of waves breaking, etc. If you are looking pure instruction, I suggest the "Progression" family of dvds.

Fantastic book with so much information. I bought a landboard and I cant wait to use what I'm learning in this book!

Overall an interesting and informative book, but not enough detail on selection or maintenance of equipment. Some maneuver's pictures/description would benefit from a corner inset showing movement of bar and other time position/altitude of kite, as it is not clear at times what is happening with the bar or kite..

Covers the bases. Highly recommended, especially for newcomers.

This book is worthless.I bought it to be part of my process of learning to kiteboard. My expectation was that it would have lots of diagrams of equipment and definitions of terms. There is next to nothing of this sort. And this book specifically says it is for beginners.If you don't already know the language of kiteboarding then this book is not for you, terms are used without defintion. Equipment terms are used without pictures or diagrams to show what is being referred to.Please don't buy this book, let me be the very last person to lose money paying for this worthless compilation of nothingness.