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 - Riding Downwind
Kitesurfing Technique - Riding Downwind
Riding Downwind

There is no better place to start than the beginning, so what do we kiters mean by riding downwind? Simplest way to think of it is to imagine that you want to go from point A to point B. For theory’s sake, if you look at Pic 1 you can see that the kite school, Point A, is on a...

Kitesurfing Technique - Beach Bounce BLT
Kitesurfing Technique - Beach Bounce BLT
Beach Bounce BLT

For want of a better expression, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and this translates tokiting as there is more than one way to change direction. This in fact would be a British understatement at its most quintessential, for there are possibly too many types and variations of transitions to bother counting. Suffice to say here...

Kitesurfing Technique - NIS
Kitesurfing Technique - NIS
NIS

Even if you already have an inverted Slim Chance in the bag, adding the non-inverted variant to your repertoire will be both satisfying and worthwhile. It’s likely that many of you and in particular some of the “old timers”, went on to master the Slim as the next step after the long forgotten dangle pass. As a result you may...

Kitesurfing Technique - Indy Pop to Toeside
Kitesurfing Technique - Indy Pop to Toeside
Indy Pop to Toeside

This one shouldn’t take to long to master as it is really just a way of adding some extra style points to something you can already do, that is of course assuming that you can pop to toe side without a moments thought. Realistically though to make the grab, especially after the indulgences of Christmas, it’s more about polishing your...

Kitesurfing Technique - Shifty 5
Kitesurfing Technique - Shifty 5
Shifty 5

The constant, sometimes seemingly small progressions in kiting are often the most rewarding challenges. In freestyle the possibilities seem endless, moving from a blind landing with surface pass, to an air pass blind judge and then adding that extra bit for a blind judge three and then a five and then a seven – one can but dream or admire...

Kitesurfing Technique - Roll Tack
Kitesurfing Technique - Roll Tack
Roll Tack

Many moons ago we covered the Duck Tack. Although similar to this both visually and practically, there are a few differences to the Roll Tack which we’ve found have made this the choice when coaching guests on clinics and achieving a much higher rate of continued success. Whether this is down to boards, kites, them or us we can’t say,...