Kitesurfing Technique

Kitesurfing Technique - Beach Bounce Transition
Kitesurfing Technique - Beach Bounce Transition
Beach Bounce Transition

This is a beautifully fun move in its own right, and the first step to a stylish press. You’ve likely seen a picture or a clip of someone doing this, either on soft sand or far less sensibly on a solid object! It’s a great one to add to your armoury and if you choose the right time and spot...

Kitesurfing Technique - Two Foot Beach Start
Kitesurfing Technique - Two Foot Beach Start
Two Foot Beach Start

Some time back we took you through a beach start method where you anchor the board by putting one foot in the front strap to stop it misbehaving and running off whilst you fly the kite. As effective a method as that may be, the launch can often be preceded by a game of hop scotch as you pogo around...

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...

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Kitesurfing Technique - Double Front Board Off
Kitesurfing Technique - Double Front Board Off
Double Front Board Off

Heliarde is back with some big air shenanigans for you all. This time with a lofty double front roll with a rather casual board off. Nothing beats a biggy, except a biggy with some form of embellishment, and a board off double certainly does add more than a hint of spice. May we suggest that a decent double front is...

Kitesurfing Technique - Inverted Grabbed Double BLT
Kitesurfing Technique - Inverted Grabbed Double BLT
Inverted Grabbed Double BLT

This one harks back to the alumni of Space Monkeys and all those on the tour of that era. Changing direction was still cool, and razzing it up, whether bouncing off a beach like Martin in Los Roques, or adding multiple rotations and board offs to claim a pair of world titles as per Mr Shinn was definitely a sign...

Kitesurfing Technique - Getting Out, Over and Through the White Water on a Surfboard
Kitesurfing Technique - Getting Out, Over and Through the White Water on a Surfboard
Getting Out, Over and Through the White Water on a Surfboard

Enjoying the waves, especially if you are strapless, also entails the often tricky challenge of first getting out over the foamy stuff and steeper walls. Once you’re confident at this, you’ll be able to relax, which in turn will make it simpler, you’ll save a load of body dragging back to the beach to retrieve your board and you’ll have...

Kitesurfing Technique - Unhooked Kite Loop
Kitesurfing Technique - Unhooked Kite Loop
Unhooked Kite Loop

Learning a unhooked kite loop has all the advantages of it’s hooked in cousin, but far fewer of the disadvantages. Performed powered it looks great and feels amazing, and yet in the novice stages you always have the option of letting go and reducing velocity and the subsequent impact. And that’s not all, we’ll be looking at it with a...

Kitesurfing Technique - Unhooked Back Loop to Toeside
Kitesurfing Technique - Unhooked Back Loop to Toeside
Unhooked Back Loop to Toeside

This one will always feel good done well, and is of course the first step in many a budding freestyler’s repertoire to a plethora of pass moves. Technically it is just an unhooked version of the same move hooked in, so assuming that you can execute a popped back to toe side and already stomp unhooked raleys and understand kite...

Kitesurfing Technique - One Foot Jump
Kitesurfing Technique - One Foot Jump
One Foot Jump

We are sometimes prone to bang on about what attracts most people to kitesurfing. Airtime has always been very near the top of the list for most people, and even those who only dreamt of jumping generally end up realising their dream. On a recent trip to Venezuela it was hard not to notice a jolly nice chap who bore...