A path from confident rider to certified instructor, run on a working school beach in a real season. Enquiry-based. We publish nothing we have not fixed.
Teaching is not riding well. It is watching somebody else make the mistake you stopped making years ago, in a language that is often not theirs.
You came for a season, you are still here, and going home to an office is the wrong ending. Teaching is how riders stay near water for a living.
You already work a northern summer and want a southern season that is not bar work. A recognised certification travels to every coast.
You ride well, you can explain things, and you are prepared for the unglamorous half: rigging, packing, watching, and repeating yourself in three languages.
Four stages. The duration of each depends on your riding level when you arrive and on the season, which is exactly why we do not publish a fixed number of weeks.
We watch you ride and give you an honest level. Nobody starts a teaching path they are not ready for. It wastes your season.
Assisting on real lessons: rigging, launching, landing, watching a class from the outside and learning what an instructor is actually tracking.
The formal course to the external standard: teaching methodology, risk assessment, rescue, assessment of students.
Assessment and certification through the governing body, then a card that is recognised at schools worldwide.
Each course has its own intake. An enquiry puts you on that list — it is interest, not a place. A place exists when a person confirms it to you.
The IKO Assistant Training Course: an online module, then five days on the beach with an IKO Assistant Trainer. From age 16, riding at IKO Level 4 (Advanced). Passing makes you an IKO Assistant.
Join this list →The IKO Instructor Training Course: five days with an IKO Examiner, leading to IKO Instructor Level 1. From age 18, as an IKO Assistant — instructors certified by another organisation can ask about entering directly. An intake is announced four to five weeks before a confirmed start, once the examiner is arranged.
Join this list →The ITC needs a valid first aid and CPR certificate. IKO accepts an in-person course with hands-on CPR and drowning rescue — not an online course — valid for two years. Ask whether ours fits your dates, or which certificate you can bring.
Join this list →Wingfoil instructor training runs under IWO, a separate organisation with its own requirements. It is not part of these IKO courses — ask on WhatsApp if that is what you are looking for.
These are the fees C2SKY last published. Each new intake has its fee reconfirmed in writing, with the dates, before anything is paid.
Both directions, in a range of wind strengths, without losing ground down the beach.
Alone, in deep water, without an audience.
Not stylish — reliable. You will demonstrate constantly.
Plus any second language, which matters more here than most places.
Needed for the ITC: an in-person course with hands-on CPR and drowning rescue, valid for two years. Online courses are not accepted by IKO.
IKO sets 16 for the Assistant course and 18 for the Instructor course.
The visa or work paperwork for teaching a season in Vietnam is answered per person.
Your riding level, the season you are aiming at and what you want out of it. You get a straight answer about whether it is realistic — including when it is not.