Ancient Greeks celebrated sports such as gymnastics, wrestling, and running around wildly with an open flame. Honor athletic history near the safety of water with today’s Groupon to Kiteboarding Sarasota. Choose between the following options:

• For $49, you get a 60-minute beginner-kiteboarding lesson on land (a $100 value).
• For $199, you get a four-hour beginner-kiteboarding lesson on land and water (a $400 value).<p>

Kiteboarding Sarasota’s certified instructors impart extreme water-sport basics during beginner lessons, which prepare clients to glide across water while strapped to a kite. During one-hour lessons, adventurers learn techniques on land they can later take to the water, such as flying a kite, using harnesses, selecting a launch site, and building a sandcastle. Alternatively, four-hour lessons lift beginners to new heights of kiteboarding comprehension, combining land learning with water launches, safety releases, and a practice session—complete with boat transportation and support—riding in the calm and shallow Sarasota Bay. Each lesson is tailored to clients’ strengths, weaknesses, and fears that the Loch Ness monster has relocated to coastal Florida. Kiteboarding Sarasota stocks all necessary gear except sunscreen.