Danyael Halprin
7 min readJan 31, 2019

The Thrills and Tribulations of Learning How To Kitesurf

When I told my kitesurfing instructor to never let go of me I truly meant it.

After flying through the night, I arrived in the afternoon of December 31st in Cabarete, 20 minutes east of Puerto Plata, The Dominican Republic. I’d booked a hotel right where all the action is on Kite Beach, a mecca in the kitesurfing…