Kitesurfing Technique

Kitesurfing Technique - Pop Nose Grab Hooked-In
Kitesurfing Technique - Pop Nose Grab Hooked-In
Pop Nose Grab Hooked-In

The nose grab is an absolute classic popped trick. It’s guaranteed to get you buzzing and makes for a proper money shot in your holiday snaps. We’re keeping things sensible and looking at the hooked in variant. This type of low altitude move is all about adding some style and as well as working deliciously in flat water, it’s just...

Kitesurfing Technique - Blind Slide Downloop Transition to Toeside
Kitesurfing Technique - Blind Slide Downloop Transition to Toeside
Blind Slide Downloop Transition to Toeside

Here’s a perfect transition for those of you who have a fondness of kiting in reverse! Riding blind opens the door to a whole new world of tricks and this one is a fun way to change direction without leaving the water, whilst quite possibly leaving your peers in a state of confusion. Your aim is to reverse in blind,...

Kitesurfing Technique - Jump Transition to Toeside
Kitesurfing Technique - Jump Transition to Toeside
Jump Transition to Toeside

Variations and add-ons lie at the very heart of kite moves. Combining moves you have stuffed firmly in your box of tricks is a brilliant way to keep moving forward and stoke your mojo. Landing a jump transition to toeside is a perfect example of this kiting chop shop and a cracking progression from last issue’s jump transition. The principles...

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Kitesurfing Technique - Front Loop Hand Wash Transition
Kitesurfing Technique - Front Loop Hand Wash Transition
Front Loop Hand Wash Transition

Yes another hand wash. These moves are always popular crowd pleasers and on clinics everyone one wants to get involved in some water tickling. This is the front roll or front loop variant and it has its roots firmly placed in the more traditional popped front loop nose grab transition from yesteryear as featured in Issue 31! There is quite...

Kitesurfing Technique - Pop to Blind with Ole
Kitesurfing Technique - Pop to Blind with Ole
Pop to Blind with Ole

The Pop to Blind with an Ole has been such a popular move, celebrated on our clinics for nigh on 15 years. Last month, we had some new takers from a much younger generation, and so the Ole lives on. It’s a really satisfying move that feels just oh so amazingly good. It’s simple yet sublime and opens the door...

Kitesurfing Technique - Hand Drag Back Roll
Kitesurfing Technique - Hand Drag Back Roll
Hand Drag Back Roll

Kite tricks are much like cakes, once you’ve got the foundation you can add to and embellish it in any number of ways, combine it with another skill and the keep the ever growing endless game of learning alive. Here is one such combination, the Hand Drag Back Roll, a bit of a twist on the Hand Drag from a...

Kitesurfing Technique - Front to Blind
Kitesurfing Technique - Front to Blind
Front to Blind

Front to Blind Our front loop love bubble just would not be complete without adding the sublime blind landing and a cheeky surface pass out. Tricks to blind look phenomenal, feel sensational, and once you get the hang of landing blind, they’ll all start collecting in your box of tricks. Having just taken you through the unhooked front, this is...

Kitesurfing Technique - F16
Kitesurfing Technique - F16
F16

True or False? The F16 is aptly named as a result of the horrendous G forces the body must endure whilst attempting it. Well to be honest it is surprising a certain Mr Bertrand Fleury, or his peers such as Tobias and Vari took so long to calm their insane, ahead of the game, riding styles in favour of the...

Kitesurfing Technique - Popping off a Wave / Chop
Kitesurfing Technique - Popping off a Wave / Chop
Popping off a Wave / Chop

Popping off a wave, wavelet or steep bit of chop as in Video 1, in many locations, is an inevitable and often unavoidable consequence of meeting one of the oceans naturally formed stunt ramps, as you speed out from the beach. When you know what you’re doing these obstacles become joyous kickers, but when you don’t know how to handle...