Younes Belkadi
Founder & Head Instructor (IKO Level 3)Grew up in Dakhla and has been teaching on the lagoon since 2011. Knows which corner is flat at which tide better than any forecast does.
About The School
14+Seasons on
the lagoon
the lagoon
Who We Are
A Small School On A Very Large Lagoon.
We opened at PK 25 in 2012 with two instructors and six kites. The camp has grown since, but the ratio has not moved: three students per instructor on a beginner course, four on a coaching session. That is the whole method. Everything else — the flat water, the wind, the rescue boat — is Dakhla doing the work.
Our stretch of the lagoon is waist to chest deep for several hundred metres and the trade wind blows side-shore, along the beach rather than out to sea. You can put a kite down, stand up, sort yourself out and go again. Beginners who would need three weeks somewhere else are usually riding upwind here in six days.
- IKO-certified instructors, insured and locally licensed
- Radio helmets on every beginner lesson, rescue boat on the water
- Fixed camp prices — kit, room, half board and transfers included
- Open every day of the season, September through May
300+Windy Days A Year
40 kmOf Flat Lagoon
3:1Max Students Per Coach
2,400+Riders Taught Since 2012
Where You Stay
Rooms On The Water's Edge
Camps include a bungalow at the school, fifty metres from where the kites go up, with half board — breakfast before the first session and dinner when the wind drops. Rooms are twin or double, en-suite, with hot water and Wi-Fi that works well enough for a video call.
Non-kiting partners are welcome at accommodation-only rates, and there is something running most days: the White Dune, the hot springs, the oyster farms, or the Imlili oasis out in the desert.
See What's Included
The Team
The People Who Will Be On The Water With You
Marta Nowak
Freestyle & Wing Foil CoachEx-competition freestyler, now spends the season filming students and picking apart their pop frame by frame.
Hamza Ait Ali
Wave Coach & Downwind GuideStrapless specialist who runs the Dragon Island runs and the Oum Lamboir wave trips, boat and all.