VL Kites is the first school in the Ottawa region to offer kiteboarding lessons both on snow and water!

• The School Director, Hung Vu, is a pioneer kitesurfer, kiteskier and kitesnowboarder who has taught many kitesurfers worldwide either directly, via emails, or via his Kitesurfing School web site he conceived in 1998 at http://KitesurfingSchool.Org which is the most popular and respected kiting web site in the world (more than 450,000 visitors worldwide, millions of hits).  Hung is the original author of the world's first formal Kite Teaching Methodology (KTM) for multiple disciplines of kite sports: kitesurfing, kitesnowboarding, kiteskiing and kitelandboarding. Hung is also the owner and moderator of many discussion groups worldwide: the legendary Kitesurf group (thousands of members world-wide), The Canadian Kitesurf group and the OttawaKiting group.  Hung is also the web master of the Ottawa Kiting web site at http://OttawaKiting.co
  
  

• In 2005 and 2006, VL Kites has teamed up with National Capital Commission (NCC) to organize the first Winterlude Kite Demonstration Event during the closing week-end of Winterlude 2005 and also Winterlude 2006.  VL Kites also has teamed up with Trailhead to provide the first Kite Presentation at a mainstream outdoor gear trade show.  Click on the picture to view the photos and report of the event.