Dear Instructors and IKO Centers, we hope the current season is bringing you lots of wind! Here is the latest news for IKO Pros, which we invite you to read carefully.

New Posters Following the Changes to the Student Certification Standards

Instructors and Centers, please pay close attention to these changes because they will impact the certification of your students:

• “Jump transition” has been moved forward in the Level 4 (but also stays in the Level 5 Freeride). This means that Assistant Instructors and especially Instructor candidates now need to be able to perform jump transitions in order to pass the ITC Riding test.
• “Controlled stop” previously was at the Level 3J and is now at Level 2I. This means it should be taught along with the water-start (in other words, we teach them to start and stop at the same level).
• “Launch and land as an assistant” has been moved from the Level 1C to Level 1B.
• The rest of the changes are mainly rewordings to make it simpler and easier to translate.

Check the new posters

Updates to the IKO Standards and to the Chart of Sanctions

In our constant efforts to increase the quality of the IKO, we recently made some changes to the Standards and the Chart of sanctions. If you have not looked at these documents for a while, now is a good time to make sure you are up to date!

• (Article 36) IKO Instructors Level 3 can now be requested by the head office to administer SCC (School Compliance Check) for Centers and Instructors or do so by their own initiative (in which case the head office must be informed).
• (Article 55) Examiner Candidates need to have run a minimum of 8 AITCs with a total of at least 30 candidates as a prerequisite.
• We added new entries and made some changes that concern Assistant Instructors to Training Masters in the Chart of sanctions.

Read the standards

Your Students Are Requesting Their Certification to IKO!

This year, already more than 1200 students sent a certification request to the IKO because they were never certified by their Instructor or Center. This represents an increase of more than 200% compared to 2018 which shows that your students are more and more aware of the IKO Certification and expect to be certified at the end of their last lesson.

The certification of your students is one of the most important responsibilities you have as an IKO Instructor. It allows your students to access their own vCard, which helps them better assess their riding level, realize how far they progressed and understand their limits and potential at the end of their kiteboarding lessons.

To encourage Instructors and Centers to certify their students on time, the certification credits will soon be valid for one year from the date of purchase (starting in 2020). You can buy credits in packages of 10, 25 or 50 according to your needs and the credits you don’t end up using can be transferred to other instructors. 

Do you have the Plus or Premium Instructor membership? If so, your plan already includes 5 or 40 credits and you benefit from an IKO shop discount of 10% or 20% on the entire online store (also applicable on the purchase of credits).

Certify your students