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prasonisi
A truly fabulous Freeride windsurfing heaven with stunning flat water with perfect conditions for learning. Blue Zone food and wonderful post sail socials.
Plus of course our fully engaging Windwise course and holiday for intermediates looking to improve their Freeride level.
Based on shared room & excluding flights
Super flat, easy blasting conditions and gybertorium
Conditions: Very flat water + wave beach
Water state: Flat, flat, flat!
Wind direction: Meltemi – Slightly cross off shore
Wind strength: F3-6
Sail range: 4-7m
Windsurf centre: Severne / Fanatic
Course criteria: Sail upwind on sub 150L board
Non-windsurfing partner rating: Quiet beach chill out
Other activities: Foiling, winging, biking & Lindos advenutres
Mastering those corners!
Located at the southern tip of Rhodes, Prasonisi is a huge, beautiful and incredibly flat water bay. The combination of our Windwise skills training and the flat water is pure gybing heaven.
Whether it’s moving on to even smaller boards, blasting faster in more control, or really wanting to speed-up those turns, Pras and Windwise will deliver.
You'll be flying back and forth mastering your control, cranking corners and develop your windsurfing confidence.
This is where and how you’ll improve
Fabulous Freeriding…
LEARN TO DUCK
Fabulous food & Windwise Adventures
Your Windwise experience in Prasonisi will be a mix of super welcoming socials, proven professional coaching developing your knowledge, confidence and skills on the flat water and optional wave experiences.
We’ve got plenty of additional adventures and activities including:
Simon Bornhoft’s expert experience, 1-2-1 guidance and the proven Windwise Skills Training System provides the very best in professional coaching.
Specific skill enhancing exercises
Discover exactly what to do and how to get there
Windwise expertise throughout your holiday, all at a pace to suit you.
Provided you can stay upwind and sail in the harness, then you’ll be fine in Prasonisi.
Our approach to guarantee a professional coaching experience that includes:
Great course to find your windsurfing mojo
A dedicated progression plan for you!
You can master this challenging move
We’ll develop this fundamental Windwise skill and ethos, that is the DNA of windsurfing progression.
We’ll help you learn it and use it for your level. It’s the missing link for all your windsurfing moves!
Become better looking
How to create your ultimate counterbalance.
Specific consistent foot & hand placements
Learn the DNA of how to turn a board
Learn how to truly use body mechanics
Rig@90 + Talk to the mic + Rig rotators + Upwind downwinders
Action packed with Windwise skills and drills to suit your needs, increase your knowledge and abilities together with loads of personal attention to get the most out of your time on the water.
7 Days dedicated to a great time
All the windsurfing happens in Prasonisi bay, where there’s of places to eat at lunch time and we spend all of the day down at the beach.
The Prasonisi Centre hotel is in the nearby village of Kattavia. This is a tiny, simple village with a very laid back feel. There’s a couple of very characterful restaurants and a small supermarket. Time has stood still there for years and we love it.
The food, the place and the atmosphere are so 'Blue Zone'
Easy life with healthy simple living
Chilled out and healthy living
Kattavia is a charming, traditional Greek village, where you can find delicious food, at the local restaurants, and it’s just a few kilometres to the windsurfing mecca of Prasonisi.
Eating out is super cheap and creates that ultimate Mediterranean holiday feel. You won’t forget a night at Louis. Sitting under white painted trees, warm open air, soaking up the atmosphere.
Prasonisi Club is run by Kris and his Polish team, we’ve been using it for years and they treat us like family.
The rooms are basic, but all you need after a full day on the water. The breakfasts are plentiful with fresh omelettes, local fruits and homemade Greek yogurt.
Prasonisi Club offers a healthy breakfasts in the mornings and we often have a balcony après windsurf beer before a 100m walk to Louis or Eftahia.
As well as the truly stunning windsurfing location there’s more going on.
There’s always more to do
Straight off the beach is a wide open bay with cross offshore wind. There’s easy launching, super flat water and lots of space. It’s perfect for skills training, blasting, gybe variations and taking the windsurfing at whatever pace suits you.
There’s a huge sand spit stretching to an island and the wind whistles through the gap creating a strong thermal. Plus there’s an optional wave beach in the north side.
Countless run across a flat water bay
Super easy water state to make your moves
Our Pras clinic is aimed at early intermediate to advanced windsurfers looking to move their short-board skills on to another level.
Whether it’s moving on to even smaller boards, blasting faster in more control, or really wanting to speed-up those turns, it’s a rewarding place to sail.
There is also a wave beach across the sand spit, but we tend to stay mainly in the Freeride bay.
With the cross-offshore wind, they are extra vigilant and have an excellent rescue service.
We’ll get you round those corners
Each run is a good 300-400m and is ideal for Freeride sailing. You are likely to be using boards like the SV Fox / Dyno with Gator rigs and all perfectly set up to help you improve.
There’s absolutely table flat water to gybe on, which means we can get on with fine tuning your technique in perfect conditions.
Yes, there’s an optional wave beach on the windward side, but we only visit that if/when the conditions are really good and we feel your level is right for that location and conditions.
We tend to stay mainly in the Freeride bay.
We have been using the Prasonisi centre for many years and love the whole atmosphere there.
It’s packed with Severne sails and loads of our favourite boards too.
The whole centre is driven down to the waters edge so you have all the kit within a fins throw of the water.
Below is a list of everything you need to know about your holiday in Prasonisi.
Go step-by-step through everything and use it as a checklist: Flights – Transfers – Accommodation – Communications – What to Bring.
Outbound (North Terminal)
Inbound (North Terminal)
Group Transfer
Private Transfers
Prasonisi Club Hotel Kattavia
Telephone
Outbound (North Terminal)
Inbound (North Terminal)
Group Transfer
Private Transfers
Prasonisi Club Hotel Kattavia
Telephone
It is compulsory to have third-party and personal insurance for the duration of the course, covering injury to self and others.
Travel insurance is also recommended to cover any possible issues that may arise.
RYA insurance definitely does not cover you overseas for rental gear, third party accidental cover or kit damage.
This is optional. Some holiday companies will cover you for this. TWS also have a local insurance you can take out with Safety Tool
If you don’t already have third-party windsurfing insurance, you can contact Insure4Sport for year-round cover. We don’t have any financial arrangement, but many of our clients have used them for both 3rd Party & Kit Damage.
See you on the water soon
Please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements or health issues we need to know about.
Simon Bornhoft / Windwise – by Ian Phillips of www.kuchi.solutions
About Windwise
You’re getting the knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm of one of the worlds most experienced coaches, Simon Bornhoft.
Simon has personally coached well over 6,000 windsurfers. He’s seen, tried and coached just about every single windsurfing style, tip and technique out there.
His intuitive ability to instantly identify where things are going wrong, is matched by the ability and desire to give you the exact solution, skill set and the quickest progression path to match your level, style and aspirations.
The Windwise system has been published in articles all over the world. But there’s nothing better than getting it live on the water with Simon and his team.
Check out more about Simon and his team here.
If you’re new to the sport or you’re looking to lock down the real basics, these courses are perfect for you.
Run by our trained Windwise coaches, they can assist you through the beginning and early stages of the sport using proven Windwise windsurfing coaching techniques to speed up your learning curve. We have 1 to 2 day windsurfing courses and our very popular overseas windsurfing holidays.
Introducing, explaining and building the essential windsurfing skills using the Windwise coaching system.
Simon Bornhoft we’ll help you develop and improve all areas of your windsurfing. Quick beach and waterstarts, relaxed stances, quality control, the earliest of planing, controlled harnessing and blasting in the straps, better upwind sailing, quicker tacking and learning how to gybe.
Want to break that plateau, extend your wind range, increase speed and consistency in those gybes and learn other achievable short board skills and moves? Then this is the course for you.
Simon Bornhoft will guide you through sailing smaller boards, tacking in stronger winds/lower volume boards, cranking up those carve gybes, control-jumping over chop, or having some fun with optional feasible freestyle like flat water wave riding, duck gybes, helitacks, up and downwind 360’s etc.
If you’re looking to get into waves or develop existing wave sailing skills you wave then our Freewave & Wave courses are the perfect environment to take you to the next level – which is far more accessible than you might think.
We run through high wind control, sailing sub 100L boards, uphauling, tacking and hovering on semi submerged boards.
Common questions
If you’re new to the sport or you’re looking to lock down the real basics, these courses are perfect for you. Run by our trained WINDWISE coaches, they can assist you through the beginning and early stages of the sport using proven WINDWISE windsurfing coaching techniques to speed up your learning curve. We have 1-2 day windsurfing courses and our very popular overseas windsurfing holidays.
Booking conditions
Windwise will do their best to ensure your safety and enjoyment on the water. There will be times when you’re being coached individually and in a group. There will also be times when you are freesailng by yourself, just like a regular windsurfing holiday-resort.
Windsurfing is, potentially, a dangerous sport and you must agree to sail in a responsible manner and in the designated areas outlined to you in resort.
In the event that Simon Bornhoft is not able to make the clinic/holiday or course due to illness or unforeseen circumstances, your Windwise booking and holiday are still valid and the course/holiday/adventure will still go ahead and another Windwise coach will be provided for you.
Being a small operation we have to pre-pay hotels and centres to get rates, plus there are associated costs for putting these courses on overseas.
So if for any unforeseen reason you’re unable to attend the clinic or experience holiday cancellation, airline cancellation, personal health issues, injury or any other personal reason or unforeseen circumstances that prevent you from joining the course, you will still be required to pay for your holiday. You can transfer your place to another person, but if you need to cancel and cannot find a replacement we will offer compensation under the following guidelines.
