KEREM BALIK
Kitesurfer since : 2007
Licensed Instructor since : 2008
Languages : Turkish, English
Current Sponsors: Slingshot Kiteboarding, Casio G Shock
Ever since Kerem left his IT consultant career in 2007, he has been traveling - kiting all around the world. As a passionate and hardworking kitesurfer, he has competed in a lot of competitions and nominated for first Turkish National Freestyle Kiteboarder in 2009 and Freestyle Kiteboarding Vice Champ in 2014. He also had been in the freestyle judge for the Philippines Kiteboard Association in 2015, freestyle judge for Turkish Sailing Federation in Turkish Nationals 2017, World Kite League Freestyle Trainee Judge , head judge assistant in 2017 Red Bull King of the Air. He has kited in South Africa, Vietnam, Tarifa, Philippines, China, Thailand, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, trained, competed and worked as a coach in those countries.
Kerem is a Turkish Sailing Federation Kiteboard Examiner since 2013, organizing Kiteboard Instructor Courses for the upcoming kitesurfing instructors. Even though he loves traveling all over the world, he has set a home base in Turkey.
BILAL VATAN
Kitesurfer since : 2014
Licensed Instructor since : 2018
Languages : Turkish, English
He had lived almost every region of Turkey and had been meeting with different types of extreme sports and cultures. Bilal started to ski when he was little kid and right after started to skate and roller skate. While he was a university student, he achieved to progress wakeboarding & snowboarding skills in Germany and Bulgaria. Being from İzmir, he eventually met kitesurfing in Alaçatı and finished his civil engineering career in İstanbul. As a dedicated kitesurfer, he is working as a certified instructor in our team since 2018 and sharing his knowledge and experience with his students.
EMRAH MİDYAT
Kitesurfer since : 2015
Licensed instructor since : 2016
Languages : Turkish
He has always been a passionate nature love, in 2010 first he had started with paragliding. For long years of paragliding, he has been into quite a lot competitions and he had traveled long miles of flying. He has been a paragliding assistant instructor, and then he started kitesurfing in 2015. He had progressed quite quickly thanks to his paragliding experience, and he has been a kitesurfing instructor in 2016. After working a full season in Kite Club Urla, he keeps teaching and sharing his expertise in Advance Kiting.
BORA KUTUK
Kitesurfer since : 2017
Licensed instructor since : 2018
Languages : Turkish, English
He grew up in the seas and started sailing in 2009, competed and was 4 times champion of Turkey in various branches. Bora represented Turkey in many competitions on behalf of the national team. He competed in 470 olympic branches and achieved various success. He participated in many camps and races in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Japan and Poland.
In 2017, he became specialized in Formula Foil kite discipline and he continues to work to become an Olympic athlete in Formula Kite ( high performance hydrofoiling kiteracing class). He is very enthuiastic about sharing his knowledge and training new kitesurfers .