This past weekend was wonderful at Playa Azul Tulum! Saturday night Playa Azul Tulum Hotel hosted the welcome reception for the Mexican destination wedding of Maibe and David Ponet, a wonderful couple from New York. Their friends and family rented out the entire Tulum hotel, and for everyone’s first night at the welcome party, 85 people enjoyed dancing salsa and eating Mexican food at Restaurant PA, at Playa Azul Tulum Hotel. The day after the wedding celebration, 65 friends and family gathered again in the restaurant for a delicious brunch and more time together. Lots of young couples are choosing Playa Azul Tulum and the gorgeous beaches of Tulum for getting married. In these times, a wedding celebration can be costly, and Playa Azul Tulum has special promotions for weddings or for special events. Mexico, and Playa Azul Tulum, is a great alternative for a reasonably-priced destination wedding, so please get in touch with us if you would like further information about Tulum wedding packages or special prices for groups in Tulum. Sunday was also a special day! Normally Playa Azul Tulum organizes what is known as Bikini Beach Sundays, with live music on the beach. This particular Sunday, Valentine’s Day, it was a kiteboarding day! Starting in the morning, Playa Azul Tulum Hotel hosted a meeting for all the kiteboarding Schools in Tulum, along with the municipio of Tulum, to address regulations for how the sport of kitebarding should be controlled on the Tulum beaches, now that it is starting to be a popular sport on the Tulum beach. Morph kiteboarding did a great job putting it together, and is a point of reference in Tulum for the kitesurfing world. Thanks to them for that wonderful event, and also to the people of Red Bull for all the equipment that they brought to Tulum. We danced to the great rhythm of Bandikoro, the best local band in Tulum, and with the DJs that Morph kitebarding brought especially for this event on the Tulum beach. Thanks Maibe & David Ponet, and to all the friends and familly for trusting in Playa Azul Tulum for special days like this. Thanks also to Morph kiteboarding for being so professional with their work and with the sport of kitebarding in Tulum. 
Morph Kiteboarding Stuff at Playa Azul Tulum Hotel before the sunday event 
BIKINI BEACH SUNDAY at Playa Azul Tulum Hotel Love&Kiteboarding event with Morph Kiteboarding. 
BIKINI BEACH SUNDAYS at Playa Azul Tulum Hotel beach with Morph Kiteboarding. 
Maibe & David Ponet event saturday night at PA Restaurant, the Playa Azul Tulum Hotel Restaurant
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Mexican Wedding destination and love & kiteboarding at Tulum beach
February 17th, 2010Kiteboarding in Tulum with Playa Azul Tulum Hotel and Morph Kiteboarding!!
September 29th, 2009Playa Azul Tulum Hotel and Morph Kiteboarding are opening a new Kiteboarding school in the Playa Azul Tulum Hotel, with IKO certified teachers and new equipment that’s safe to use. November 1, 2009 will be the grand opening – everyone is welcome to come try out this new sport!
Kitesurfing is an extreme sport, with a growing number of followers. The sport is a pretty new thing. It’s thought that it first burst onto the scene in the 80s, but not too many people were into it at first. Since then, as more people have known about it, many surfers started kiteboarding. Since 2000, the amount of kiteboarders has surpassed all expectations.
To get started kitesurfing, you would need a kite – the size varies according to the amount of drag you want to have. You attach the kite to a belt, for more control, that’s attached to a harness. Then you need a kind of small surfboard. It’s much easier to get used to, and you have a much bigger range of motion.
Once you have your equipment, you need a place to practice that has recurring winds. Then you can surf with the wind at high speeds! But for beginners, we recommend that you start to learn with an instructor at a certified school. If you don’t, it can get dangerous!
Kitesurfing has also given rise to other types of sport, based on the kite equipment. You can see this with some types of snowboarding. Lots of snowboarders have incorporated the use of a kite, to get even higher speeds over the snow and that way they can do some pretty extreme acrobatics. The same thing happens with those you use mountain boards. They use these in the mountains in the summer. It uses a board a little bit bigger than a skateboard, with rubber wheels, to speed along the rocky paths of the hills. Kites give them much more speed, and more fun!
To sart:
To begin this sport, the experts recommend that one takes a beginner’s course, where you learn about the equipment and how to handle a high risk sport. It’s necessary to observe some basic principles of safety, and rescue procedures, so that you can handle yourself should a situation arise, like the equipment breaking, the kite falling, etc. This sport, in inexperienced hands, can be dangerous, but if you put some time into practicing, it’s a really exciting sport that gives you a huge adrenaline rush.
In a beginner’s course, normally there’s a section about safely, how the wind works, etc., and the other part is hands-on practice. That starts in the sand with a trainer kite, where you first come into contact with the power of the kite and the different ways the wind hits you, and how to handle the wind speed. Your instructor will show you how to get the kite up in the air, get it down, and release it. Then you get into the water and practice the “bodydrag,” getting used to the feel of being in the water without the board first, and this will help you to get on the board should you lose it in the water. Then you can start practicing a “waterstart” and getting out of the water with the board.
Safety
We don’t recommend practicing kiteboarding with off-shore wind (the wind that moves you away from the beach). The basic equipment has different safety features. The kite-bar has a lot of these features. If there’s too strong of a gust of wind, to the point where you can’t control the kite and it drags you, the part of the harness called the “chickenloop” has a safely ring that releases the kite from your body. This lets the leash, or security rope, go, so that you wouldn’t release and lose your kite.
There are lines that pass through the bar, giving you some leeway, so that the bar either stays close to your body or farther away, which gives you a light touch with the kite, according to how the wind is blowing (capturing more or less of the wind), which is of course a measure of safety. You have to be able to regulate the kite when big gusts of wind come up. Kites with two lines don’t have this system, which is really essential (which is why they’re not used anymore).
And last, there’s how the kite is made, which varies among brands and models, and its design can bring with it many different safety elements.
In this sport, there are always new safety inventions, designs, and performance features, and every year new things are introduced.
Kitesurfing’s beginnings
Even though the practice of this sport is rather recent, it has been known for a long time in China and Indonesia, where they used kites to pull along small boats. Even knowing that, it wasn’t until 1977 that Gijsbertus Adrianus Panhuise patented a navigation system on a surfboard, for a type of parasailing, becoming the father of kitesurfing. In Indonesia it’s part of the culture, and an art, the designs are many and varied, and in these places you can find the kiteboarding industry. It’s also a great place to train, and develop better equipment. It’s history, together with low overhead and the reputation of the area as the place where kiteboarding was pioneered, has contributed greatly to the great sport of kiteboarding.
Kiteboarding en Tulum con Playa Azul Tulum Hotel y Morph kiteboarding!!
September 29th, 2009El Hotel Playa Azul Tulum y Morph Kiteboarding abren una nueva escuela de Kiteboarding en el Hotel Playa Azul Tulum, con profesores certificados IKO y con unos equipamientos y seguridad de gran nivel. El día 1 de noviembre será la inaguración, bienvenidos a practicar este deporte !!
El kitesurf es uno de los deportes extremos, que más adeptos ha ido sumando. El deporte es prácticamente nuevo. Se cree que surgió en los comienzos de la década de los 80. Pero el kitesurf, no logro que muchos se interesaran en el. Pero en la mediada que se fue dando a conocer, muchos surfistas, fueron incorporando éste deporte, a sus prácticas habituales. Para comienzos del 2000, la cantidad de practicantes, había superado todas las expectativas.
Para practicar el kitesurf, se necesita de una cometa, la cual varía de tamaño, según la potencia de arrastre, que se desee tener. Esta se asegura a la cintura de la persona, por medio de una barra de control, unida por un arnés. Para deslizarse, se necesita de una tabla de surf. La cual, en la mayoría de las ocasiones, es bastante más pequeña, que la original. Esto, para poder tener un rango de maniobrabilidad, mucho mayor al acostumbrado.
El kitesurf al poseer como vehículo de arrastre, una cometa, debe ser practicado en zonas donde el viento sea recurrente. Aparte de que corra a altas velocidades. Para principiantes, se recomienda comenzar a aprender,con un instructor o escuela certificada, Esto, ya que sin la asistencia adecuada, se puede tornar peligroso.
Por otra parte, el kitesurf ha dado pie para que otras modalidades, copien su vehículo de propulsión. Esto se está dando bastante con el snowboard. Muchos montañistas, están incorporando un cometa, para lograr mayores velocidades en la nieve y así poder lograr acrobacias más extremas. Lo mismo ocurre con los que practican el mountain boards. Deporte que se realiza en las montañas, en época de verano. Quienes utilizan una tabla un poco mayor que la de un skate convencional, a la que le han incorporado grandes ruedas de caucho, para poder deslizarse en la veredas rocosas de los cerros. Y las cometas utilizadas en el kitesurf les proporcionan gran velocidad y mayor diversión.
Iniciación:
Para empezar con este deporte los expertos recomiendan hacer un curso de iniciación donde enseñan un primer contacto con el material y, ya que se trata de un deporte de riesgo, es necesario al menos unas normas básicas de seguridad y procedimientos de rescate que permitirán resolver situaciones de rotura de material, caída de la cometa, etc. Este deporte en manos inexpertas puede ser peligroso, pero bien practicado es un deporte muy emocionante que desborda adrenalina.
En un curso de iniciación, normalmente hay una parte teórica de seguridad, ventana de vuelo, etc. y otra parte práctica, que comienza en la arena con una cometa de iniciación, donde se toma contacto con la fuerza de la cometa en las distintas posiciones de la ventana de vuelo y su comportamiento en función de la velocidad. Procedimiento para subir y bajar y suelta de la cometa. Se pasa posteriormente al agua y se practica el “bodydrag”, desplazamiento en el agua sin la tabla, esta técnica permite recuperar la tabla en el agua, después se practica el “waterstart” o salida con la tabla desde el agua.
Seguridad :
No se recomienda la práctica del kite con viento de tierra off-shore (el viento te aleja de la playa).
El equipo básico contiene distintos elementos de seguridad. El tándem cometa-barra es el que más elementos contiene. En caso de que sople un viento demasiado fuerte con el que la cometa se pueda descontrolar y nos pueda arrastrar, la unión al arnés llamada chickenloop tiene una anilla de seguridad que permite soltar la cometa del cuerpo. Es sólo entonces cuando actúa el leash o cuerda de seguridad, que evita que la cometa se aleje y se extravíe.
A través de la barra pasan unas líneas, dando un margen para que la barra pueda pegarse más al cuerpo o alejarse, esta acción influye ligeramente en la cometa haciéndola más o menos sensible al viento (captando más o menos viento), es por sí una medida de seguridad, ya que se puede regular la cometa cuando vienen rachas fuertes de viento. Las cometas de dos líneas no tienen este sistema, hoy en día imprescindible (por eso están en desuso).
Por último está la constitución de la cometa, que varía entre marcas y modelos y su diseño puede aportar elementos de seguridad.
En este deporte, se está innovando en seguridad, diseño y prestaciones y dado su corta vida, cada año se introducen nuevos elementos.
Comienzos:
Aunque la práctica de este deporte de manera extendida es muy reciente, se tiene conocimiento que desde muy antiguo en China e Indonesia se usaban cometas para arrastrar pequeñas embarcaciones. No es sin embargo hasta 1977 cuando Gijsbertus Adrianus Panhuise patenta un sistema de navegación sobre una tabla de surf traccionada por una especie de paracaídas, convirtiéndose así en el padre de este deporte. En Indonesia es una cultura y un arte, los diseños son amplios y variados, en estas zonas es dónde se encuentra la industria de kiteboarding. También es un gran lugar para entrenar y desarrollar el material, esto junto a la mano de obra barata y el desarrollo industrial de esta zona la sitúa como pionera en cuanto al desarrollo del Kiteboarding. www.playaazultulum.com , www.morphkiteboarding.com
