About

Maui Kiteboarding Center

Is specialized in making peoples dreams reality! Even though we can do just about any thing, here is a list of our most popular services:

Paul Franco:

Paul Franco
Born in Sao Paulo Brazil, resident in Maui since year 2000
Languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish

Paragliding

-Paragliding since early 90′s, ranked top 10 in Brazil from 1992 to 1996, ranked top 20 on the Paragliding World Cup 1993 & 1994

-Tandem Paragliding since 91 with a 100% clean safety record taking more than 5000 first timers in the air.

-Teaching Paragliding and Paramotoring since 1992 all around Brazil and United States totaling more than 150 certified students, again with 0 incidents.

-Paragliding Sponsors, Coca-Cola, Puma and Antartica. 2 years (1995 & 1996) travailing to the most popular places in Brazil in a major marketing campaign. Loged over 400 Paramotor hours.

-Worked for and managed several PG schools / PG retail business: – Sao Paulo Nomads of the Air 1991/1992 — Sao Paulo CEA 1993 — Andradas 1994 — Florida Aerolight USA 1997 — NY, New York Pargliding Center 1998/1999 — Hawaii, Proflyght 2000,2001 and 2002, still working as a PG instructor and Tandem pilot for Proflyght to current date (2009).

KiteBoarding

Emerged onto the kiteboarding scene in 2000 and since have been dedicated to the sport 7 days a week. Ranking top 10 in the world PKRA & PKWT events 2002 & 2003, also ranked top 10 on the Red Bull King of the Air 2003 . Became a certified professional instructor in 2000 training hundreds of beginners and several instructors in the last nine years, working for Action Sports Maui, Aqua Sports, KSM Kitebording School of Maui and New Wind OR.