Season trips to the migration destinations are booked two to six months ahead, often as repeat bookings at the same school. Regional chases inside a season are decided in 24 to 96 hours on a forecast.

Check the same forecast model obsessively, rig on the same beach, watch each other's kites, share transport to a spot when the wind moves, and return to the same school or camp annually. Schools and camps in the spot towns, which are the real social institutions, forecast apps used communally, spot-town networks, and image-led social platforms.

The session, nuking, gusty versus steady, a downwinder, foiling, the lagoon, rigging, lines, self-rescue, the named local winds spoken about as characters, a kook. The seasonal migrations themselves, plus the competition tour stops and the spot-town camp calendars.

Like surfing, the competitions run on waiting periods rather than fixed days. May to September for the southern European wind season, and November to February for the southern-hemisphere season, which draws the northern winter migration.