Unhooked, Front Roll To Blind
Unhooking and adding a revert to blind can spice up any trick and make you look like you have more game, even a simple front roll becomes something special once you spice it up.
Riding left to right, front foot forward with the kite above 45 degrees, trim the strap to unhook the bar, unhook and ride a short distance to check you have trim spot on.
To make lide easier and to gain an extra rotation time for the landing to blind, send the kite up a little as you pop from the water. Tuck your chin to your right shoulder and look behind you over your right shoulder as you pop to start the rotation.
Half way through the rotation, you should start to spot the landing by looking over your left shoulder. As you come in to land instead of letting the board follow your body round, take your right hand off the bar and swing your arm down towards the water, this will give you enough counter swing to stop your body rotation and land blind.
As you land, bend your knees to take the landing, keep your weight firmly centered over your feet. If you feeling up tp it you can ride out the trick with surfaced handlepass.
Good luck with this cool trick!
Tips! Make sure that you trim correctly to unhook before trying the trick. when landing blind lean forwards and towards your back foot, to help keep the edge.
Front Roll To Toeside
Front Roll To Toeside (inverted handle pass)
Ok, so you are skilled enough to make a normal front roll with a blindfold over your eyes, then this trick hopefully will give you a new challenge! Just follow these steps:
- Start on your heelside edge, elbows in.
- Through your front roll, but with more forward pop as if you are going to rotate over it.
- Once inverted let go with your backhand and start your rotation.
- Pass the handle into your new lead hand.
- Land on your toeside edge.
- set your edge and ride away.
Tips from the coach.
You are adding a 180, so give your self more forward pop to not under rotate.
You’ll be landing with your back hand on the bar, so watch that the kite doesn’t fly back the other way.
Handle to your hips, before you rotate.
Good luck!
Kite Surfing Tricks
A kite surfer will never be satisfied by just surfing up and down the sea. As a beginner you will soon master the technique of going upwind in both directions and you’ll undoubtedly want to develop your skills to be able to make slide turns, ride toeside, be able to make a carving turn heelside to toeside turns without stopping and finally start to JUMP!
Once you are able to jump a whole new world is open for you! The number of tricks that one can perform in the air are almost unlimited, in fact it’s only you self that sets the limit. There are hundreds of tricks that already are “invented” but the oppurtunities to create your own tricks are vast!
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