TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT
Kite Shop & Demo Center —
Rent, Demo,
Buy New or Used
Ventum · Core · Duotone · Crazyfly · ION
Buying a kite off a website is a strange thing to do. You read a review, you look at a spec sheet, you pick a size, and you find out whether you were right about six weeks later when it's already yours.
We do it the other way round. Everything we sell is here, on the beach, in the shed — kites, boards, harnesses, wing gear. Take it out for a demo. Rent it for a week if a demo isn't long enough. Ride it in real wind, on real water, next to people who ride the same gear every day. Then buy it, or don't, having actually found out.
And when you do buy, buy it through us. We've worked with these brands since 2013, and that relationship gets you a better price than going direct.
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Kite Buen Hombre Kite Shop at a Glance
Brands
Ventum, Core, Duotone, Crazyfly and ION harnesses.
Gear
Kites, twin-tip boards, harnesses, bars and wing foil setups.
Four Ways to Get It
Demo it for a session, rent it for as long as you need, buy it used off our own fleet, or order it new through us.
Where
Both Kite Buen Hombre schools —
Playa Buen Hombre (Monte Cristi)
and Cabarete (Puerto Plata),
Dominican Republic.
Why Buy Tthrough Us
We've been a partner of these brands since 2013, so we can get better prices than buying direct.
Try Before You Buy
Yes — that's the whole point of the demo centre.
THE DEMO CENTRE
Try It, Ride It, Then Decide
Every kite, board and harness we sell is also gear you can get your hands on before you commit. That's not a sales tactic, it's just what happens when a shop and a kite school are the same place.
Three steps (design as numbered steps):
1. Demo it. Take a kite or board out for a session and see how it actually flies for you — not how it reads on a spec sheet.
2. Rent it. One session isn't always enough to know. Rent the same setup for a few days or a week and live with it properly.
3. Buy it. New through us, or used off our own fleet. Either way you've already ridden it, so there's no gamble left in the decision.
Ask us on the beach, or message ahead and we'll have something rigged and waiting.
WHAT WE RIDE, WHAT WE SELL
Ventum, Core, Duotone, Crazyfly & ION
Five brands, and we don't carry them because a distributor offered us a deal last season.
Ventum and Core have been with us since 2013 — since the year we opened.
Duotone, Crazyfly and ION since 2018.
These are the kites and boards our own instructors ride every day, which is the only endorsement that's worth anything.
Kites, twin-tips, harnesses, bars, wing gear:
whatever you're after from these five, we can get it,
and we can usually get it to you for less than you'd pay
going direct. That's what a decade of working with
partners is actually worth.
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FROM OUR OWN FLEET
Rent Kite & Wing foil Gear
The gear you rent here isn't a separate rental-only lineup kept in a back room for tourists. It's the working fleet — the same kites, boards, harnesses and bars our instructors and students use every day, which is why it's kept in the condition it's kept in.
Rent for a session, a day, or the length of your trip. Tell us your level and the forecast and we'll put you on the right size.
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Kites — a full range of sizes for the day's wind and your level
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Twin-tip boards — for every stage of progression
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Harnesses and bars — fitted and set up for your session
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Wing foil setups — available here rather than on the rentals page
OFF OUR OWN FLEET
Buy Used Gear — Straight From the School
We always have plenty of gear at the school available to buy outright.
It's been used — we're not going to pretend otherwise — but it's in genuinely good condition, because it's fleet gear that gets checked, repaired, and looked after by people whose own students depend on it.
It's also the cheapest honest way into good equipment.
Nobody's first kite should be a brand new one, and this is gear you can ride before you buy, which is more than any classified ad can offer.
What's on hand changes as the fleet turns over, so ask us what's in right now.
ORDER IT THROUGH US
Buy New Gear —
And Why Through Us
Anything from Ventum, Core, Duotone, Crazyfly or ION can be ordered through us, in the size and model you want, brand new.
The reason to do that rather than clicking “buy” on a website in another country is simple: we've worked with these brands for over a decade, and that gets you a better price than going direct. It also gets you someone to talk to about which size you actually need — and, if you're here, the chance to ride the thing first.
Tell us what you're after. If we don't have it in the shed to try, we'll usually have something close.
Faq
Still Have Questions?
PLANNING YOUR FIRST KITE TRIP CAN FEEL LIKE A LOT TO FIGURE OUT.
Here are the questions we hear most — and the answers that help you plan with confidence.