Kitesurfing Technique
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...
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,...
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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Sent Back Loop Nose Grab
Taking one of the first jumping moves that many of you learnt during your early steps in aerial kiting and adding a glorious nose grab so that it doesn’t look in the slightest stale. In fact may get many of your peers back on the back roll bandwagon. Obviously all grabs are great but a nose grab really stands out...
Indy Pop to Blind
If you’re keen on style there is no simpler way to ooze some steeze than add a grab. And as we have often said it’s a great way to freshen up and reignite your passion for a move that you already have in the bag - so it’ll not only look the puppy’s but also feel da bomb! Here we...
Foot Wash Transition
We’re sure that this move has a multitude of apt names, but seeing as it fits into the “support” bracket of tricks such as the BLT Handwash, Darkslide, FLT Handwash etc. we’ll keep the clean theme. This one is a lot of fun to learn and joyously not too full of consequence when it doesn’t go to plan. Of course...
Ole from Blind
Here’s one harking back to them good ol’ days of Shinn, Tobias et al, the Ole. Not seen a great deal now unless you watch those peddlers of surfboard tricks. Cracking name to boot this deft little matador's flick of the wrist can make any blind landing with the kite high look the absolute dog’s. That said just popping to...
One Handed Tabletop
It is often surprising that when the wind picks up and the only option is to literally go up with it, that many a kiter’s bag of tricks diminishes. For this reason expanding your air game is a must, so that when the wind calls, as it so often does when you’ve set your heart on unhooking or that cheeky...
Back Roll Grab from Toeside
A cheeky embellishment on a classic. Adding a tail grab to a sent back roll from toeside sums up the joys of kiting, so many possible variations to spice up any move. This is a great one to add to your armoury. You can bang it out in pretty much any conditions and it’ll keep your toeside foundations strong for...