Kitesurfing Technique

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...

Kitesurfing Technique - Toeside Water start a Strapless Surfboard
Kitesurfing Technique - Toeside Water start a Strapless Surfboard
Toeside Water start a Strapless Surfboard

The toeside waterstart is a great weapon to have in your surfboard armoury. If you’re up and riding and can carve around to toeside but haven’t yet mastered the art of the foot change, this one is definitely for you. If you already have a toeside but can’t yet carve, this is also for you. Whether you’re riding strapless or...

Kitesurfing Technique - Front Roll Tail Grab
Kitesurfing Technique - Front Roll Tail Grab
Front Roll Tail Grab

Continuing the “you can’t have one without the other” theme, which we introduced along with the front roll on the hallowed pages of IKSURFMAG issue 107. You can’t have a grabbed back without at the very least being tempted by the grabbed front now, can you? We always like to start with a bit of good news, and today, the...

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Kitesurfing Technique - Darkslide Front
Kitesurfing Technique - Darkslide Front
Darkslide Front

It can be easy to take kiting for granted, a bad session when you don’t feel comfortable, perhaps the wind’s not quite right, you’re off you’re A Game, and in the end, the lawn gets a pretty good mowing. Sometimes it’s worth giving ourselves a nudge and remember just why kiting can have such a strong hold and just why...

Kitesurfing Technique - Board Swap Back Loop
Kitesurfing Technique - Board Swap Back Loop
Board Swap Back Loop

There are subtle ways to impress and more swanky ways to enjoy yourself. This, however, is a smooth hybrid in true Heliarde style. Someone loses their board, why not try it out! What better way to switch craft, than mid-flight during a sent back rotation. Who wouldn’t? Skills needed. Realistically a grabbed Back Loop Transition would be ideal as at...

Kitesurfing Technique - Pop Front Nose Grab to Toeside
Kitesurfing Technique - Pop Front Nose Grab to Toeside
Pop Front Nose Grab to Toeside

This is a fun to do and picture friendly grab, which will also lead you on to a host of other stylish chestnuts. We’re deliberately offering this up with a toe side landing, as it is simpler, and looking forward a tad more progressive. Grabbing the nose on a pop trick comes with the inherent “risk” of the kite lifting...

Kitesurfing Technique - Unhooked Popped Front Nose Grab to Toeside
Kitesurfing Technique - Unhooked Popped Front Nose Grab to Toeside
Unhooked Popped Front Nose Grab to Toeside

Final trick this issue brings us back to some fanciful unhooking with this nose grab popped front to toe side. This is a fun move, which leads on to further tricks, and that can reward you with a decent photo. You’ll be grabbing the nose of the board with your front hand, so it should be reachable! This grab goes...

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

Back in Issue 96, we introduced you to the pop to blind with a cheeky Ole. Justifiably, we're sure you'll now agree, claiming that it feels oh so amazingly good! Well, as we often do, we'll discourage you from resting on your laurels and follow it up with this variation: the toeside pop to blind with an equally cheeky Ole....

Kitesurfing Technique - Beach Start Back Roll Grab
Kitesurfing Technique - Beach Start Back Roll Grab
Beach Start Back Roll Grab

If you want to kick off your session completely mad dog, hair down, guns blazing, look at me, who’s the Daddy, then this far from subtle entry into the ocean is defo your tipple of choice. However, it is possible to underplay it as if nobody is watching, but that forced cough before lift-off, might just arouse suspicions. We’re spicing...