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 - Foot Wash Transition
Kitesurfing Technique - Foot Wash Transition
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...

Kitesurfing Technique - Front Roll
Kitesurfing Technique - Front Roll
Front Roll

The front roll is a move that is revered and feared. The yang to the back roll’s yin. Can you afford to have one but not the other? If you answer no, you’ve come to the right place. Using your kite to jump, the sent front roll has the potential to be on your all-time favourites list; it feels so...

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...

Kitesurfing Technique - Front Loop
Kitesurfing Technique - Front Loop
Front Loop

Guaranteed to spice up ones armoury, the front loop is the base move for so many kiting tricks, that it be often regarded with awe and fear. Perhaps because it looks so smooth, and some how un-dangly, it seems to scare prospective freshers away, who then seem intent on focusing all their efforts on the back loop. Well fear ye...

Kitesurfing Technique - Double Grab - Tail to Nose
Kitesurfing Technique - Double Grab - Tail to Nose
Double Grab - Tail to Nose

Forever on the search for that little bit extra, something to challenge yourself and add a touch more zest to your airtime? Then here’s another stylish combo which should keep you busy for a while and looking good for even longer. Ten issues back we covered our first variant of the double grab, nose then tail, which one could argue...

Kitesurfing Technique - Inverted Back Roll
Kitesurfing Technique - Inverted Back Roll
Inverted Back Roll

Getting intentionally upside down during a manoeuvre adds a unique element, both visually and sensory. In this inverted sent back roll, the visual goodness is twofold. To those looking on from the outside, the invert adds a point of difference. Whilst to you, the pilot, no matter how many times you’ve rotated before, your world will look and feel completely...