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COHETE---CUSTOM SURFDOARD MAKER

Cohete name has become synonymous with quality Custom Surfboards, not only in our country and abroad. But few know who is behind the company. Opportunity to learn to interview John T. man behind Cohete.


How did your involvement with the construction planks?
My involvement with the construction of surfboards Hobbie.Tis first started as the foundation I got from some manufacturers who had met in England when I lived there for some years. Eventually, the Hobbie evolved after a few years begun to do epangelmatika.Genikotera and knowledge in the construction of surfboards is not something you learn but grown with time

Tell us a little about the Surf scene in Greece.
The surf scene in Greece magazines certainly growing, certainly sad, definitely wants a long time to mature and stand on their feet. The truth is that the sport is relatively new for us and consequently no culture to follow, but I think this comes with time so the reference level allos.Oso the riders believe it is very good upside if one consider and conditions that are equivalent to the external

Lately we find more and more surfboards in which the differences from a normal plank Surf?

There are key differences between them. By the same boards that make the surf and in theory do kitesurf. Certainly most used kitesurf performance is semi-k performance shortboards which the surf is not entirely valid because someone regardless of the level and quality of what the waveriding many different shapes.For example to see longboarders surfing half metro waves up to three and the other to see shortboarders surf wave of 1m up 4m.In kitesurf in the other we have established that the shortboard shape.The reason that this is the temperament of the game after needs regardless of what a wave and how the air you ride being quick and flexible .Consequently help shortboard shapes and planing and cutbacks.



What should you watch a Kite athletes who want to choose a Surfboard?

You will definitely need the option of having to do with the level in relation to Tosh that surfarei, a longer spot surfing, so how much air can get k to do with weight, height, if the back footer front footer, his personal preferences about how a plank likes to behave in water.

Do you have plans to bring up a specific surfboard for Kite?

I have specific shapes that work when I make kitesurf. The same shapes are constantly evolving to what it always help the team riders.Inside shots to get out kitesurf series consisting of four different shapes. Each and by extension all together will cover a wide gamma of different conditions as a reference the other waveriding k freestyle.For sure with the driver such as shape and will now become a maker and custom.

Perhaps some TwinTip board??

I think to be good at something should spend your whole creation with something thats pecific .Also should have a personal view which will come from your own experience checks and beliefs in relation to any sport. So I like shaper and team riders to help supplement the perception that I have in a plank ride.For to reach a desired outcome requires much work, effort and constant innovative thinking. I prefer therefore to evolve the ability to have the building surf boards

Advantages / Disadvantages Custom boards with this production.

Definitely a custom board is better than that one generation without absolute sure.Maybe get a board production'll match, which will be for your weight on your level compared to that ride in relation on how you want to behave in water. The reason for the production boards come in different dimensions exaple a shape made from 5'6 to 6'6 is just that. So therefore great importance is the choice of a new board and I think it is good to look as you can before your choise.A custom board would suit you just because they have built for you when it covers most of the required k I mentioned earlier

Can you tell us a good spot for  waveriding?
There are too many good spot for waveriding but will not reveal some..Google maps, forecast and goodwill.......!!!!


keep it real..

What I want to thank Nike 6.0 for support and gives me the opportunity to represent one of the core brands in dance surf.Finish, what I want to thank Creatures Of Leisure for support and that our cooperation in recent years.

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Destroy BP before it Destroys Us

What's most striking about the present BP oil catastrophe is not that it is an aberration but rather part of a dangerous pattern of mankind's propensity to destroy nature. To destroy life in a large region of an ocean isn't even new: The world already has over two hundred "dead zones" where fish can't live because the ocean water has no more oxygen left thanks to the runoff effects of man-made chemicals.

Not content with mere deforestation and the vast destruction of biodiversity on land, Man has now expanded to destroy the oceans through overfishing, ocean acidification from CO2 emissions, agricultural runoff, flushing pharmaceuticals down the drain and unleashing crude oil directly into the ocean waters. It almost seems as if mankind were somehow bent on destroying itself by first destroying everything else on the planet just to see what happens.

Human beings, by any honest accounting, are repeat offenders engaged in crimes against nature. This article, by the way, isn't some clever way to try to push us all toward a U.N.-controlled world government where every human action is regulated by environmental cops; it's merely an observation of what's really happening right now on our planet.

The criminal corporations

It is the corporations that are committing these crimes against nature: Big Pharma's mass poisoning of the waters, BP's oil catastrophe crime against the planet in the Gulf Coast, the manufacture of Depleted Uranium shells by wealthy "defense" contractors, factory farming by meat producers, the poisoning of our farms by Monsanto and its campaign to dominate nature with genetically modified seeds... you get the picture. If you really look hard at the issues, it's the corporations who are destroying our planet and thereby destroying future survivability for the rest of us.

It is the corporations, in essence, that are the criminals who are now destroying the very world around us, and if We the People continue to let these corporations engage in such actions, it won't be long before we wake up and find ourselves enslaved in a Corporatocracy that has stolen from us the very world in which we had hoped to raise our children.

What is abundantly clear now is that corporations will do anything to make money, from the cruel and inhumane factory farming of cows to dumping millions of gallons of toxic chemicals in the ocean to try to sink the dead sea animals in the Gulf. Corporations would set fire to the entire planet if that act could somehow boost profits by 50% next quarter.

The unbridled greed that drives these corporations is simply incompatible with sustainable life on our planet. Through their careless, greed-driven actions, corporations are threatening YOUR life and the lives of your children.

I say enough is enough.

An armed revolt against the corporations?

There is already some mainstream talk about arresting the CEO of British Petroleum for his crimes against nature. It will never happen, of course, because these corporations wield too much power over government entities. We've seen it time and time again: Corporations are almost never held accountable for their crimes.

It is becoming increasingly clear that any action to hold these corporations accountable for their actions must come from the People -- most likely in the form of a dedicated revolt, or perhaps even an armed "mass citizens' arrest" of the corporate criminals.

Imagine ten thousand armed, angry citizens from Texas, Louisiana and Florida converging on the BP headquarters in Houston, led by a local Sheriff, marching in and arresting all the top CEOs of British Petroleum. That's the kind of action that needs to start taking place if any justice is ever to be found in our modern world of corporate corruption and government collusion.

When it comes to corporate crimes, the justice system has utterly failed. The corporations that commit crimes are almost never held responsible. Consider the aftermath of the Goldman Sachs fiasco in 2008 - 2009, when Wall Street banksters ripped off the American people to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, and then got bailed out by the U.S. government with trillions of dollars in gift money. How is that justice?

Similarly, after drug giant Pfizer was found to have committed massive marketing fraud that violated federal law, the company was deemed "too big to fail" and was simply given a free pass by the government to stay in business, defrauding customers, states and nations. Pfizer set up a shell company to take the fall for its crimes, then went right back to business as usual. Read the story on CNN if you want to learn more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/0...

As CNN reports: Imagine being charged with a crime, but an imaginary friend takes the rap for you. That is essentially what happened when Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, was caught illegally marketing Bextra, a painkiller that was taken off the market in 2005 because of safety concerns. When the criminal case was announced last fall, federal officials touted their prosecution as a model for tough, effective enforcement. "It sends a clear message" to the pharmaceutical industry, said Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division. But beyond the fanfare, a CNN Special Investigation found another story, one that officials downplayed when they declared victory. It's a story about the power major pharmaceutical companies have even when they break the laws intended to protect patients..."

Whether it's Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Food or Big Agriculture, every large and powerful corporations gets away with murder because laws are never properly applied to them. BP is destroying an entire ocean -- and the livelihoods of millions of people -- and will probably get off with a large fine and a slap on the wrist. In two years, it will all be back to business as usual, polluting the oceans, destroying life and ignoring safety rules and regulations once again while the American people suffer.

More dangerous than terrorists

Corporations are a greater threat to our lives than terrorists. That much should be clear by now: When corporations poison our food supply with toxic chemical ingredients; when they poison our bodies with fraudulently-marketed pharmaceuticals; when they poison our oceans with careless oil drilling... they are threatening our lives and our livelihoods. They are destroying the only world we know, and they are proving themselves to be far more dangerous to our collective future than any terrorist organization.

The real terrorists, it turns out, have "Inc." after their name. And if we really want to go after the terrorists who present a clear and present danger to our health and lives, we must rise up against the corporate machine that now controls our media, our food, our sick-care system, our patents, our elected officials and our energy. We must gather our forces to make legally-justified citizens' arrests of those at the top who are responsible for these atrocities against nature and the People. We must unite out of a common desire for survival against the corporate criminals who are destroying our very futures as we speak.

We must seek the aid of the local Sheriffs, Constables and community law enforcement officials who would join us in making these arrests, and then we must march on the corporate headquarters of these criminal corporations, right through their front doors and into their corporate offices where arrests will be made at gunpoint.

And why gunpoint? Because corporations do not respect law, nor ethics, nor morality, nor compassion towards others. They only respect one thing: force. So we must reluctantly use force -- backed by the common sense of common law -- to make these corporations stop destroying our planet and our livelihoods. I'm not saying we march in there and shoot them; I'm saying we march in and arrest them and bring them to trial in local courts, with local jurors who can make local commonsense decisions about what to do with these criminal corporate executives.

The feds cannot be trusted on this. We must deal with these corporations on a local level, with the widespread support of the everyday people whose lives are being destroyed by these corporations.

The extinction of the human race

This is more than just holding corporations accountable for specific crimes such as poisoning the Gulf Coast; it's about our very survival. We're not merely talking about small, local damage to specific regions or industries here -- we are talking about the possibility of the extinction of the human race.

If the world's powerful corporations are allowed to continue operating as they have done, they will destroy our world and cause the collapse of human civilization. We cannot survive when suffocated under a cloud of chemical toxicity, financial fraud, genetically-modified seeds and widespread environmental destruction. Corporations are incapable of acting within the guidelines of long-term sustainable living. Their power and reach are now so great that they have the capacity to destroy modern civilization (which is quite fragile already).

Rising up against the corporations now means fighting for our very survival. What BP has made as clear as day is that we must now make a choice: We can choose to appease powerful corporations and exempt them from any real enforcement of rules, regulations or common sense; or we can take a stand against them, arrest their top executives, shut down their operations, revoke their corporate charters and set course in a new world without the destructive influence of endless greed backed by incessant profit-taking.

The worship of profit has become a scourge on human civilization. Unbridled greed is now our curse. "Economic activity", taken as a lone figure without the context in which it was generated, holds no measure of real value, and it should never been pursued for its own sake.

We must now shift our consciousness to a new era of the protection of life. We must value quality of life, not imaginary numbers in a bank account, and quality of life is a complex, interdependent equation that necessarily involves the sustaining of all the diverse ecosystems that now remain on our planet. For humans to live sustainably, happily and abundantly, we must stop destroying nature and start protecting it. We must be its steward, not its exploiter. And those corporations engaged in the mass destruction or poisoning of living ecosystems must be courageously arrested as criminals and prosecuted for their crimes against both the People and the planet.

There is no other way that we will survive the next century. Poisoning our planet on such a massive scale in an inexcusable act. We the People will either rise up against it, or we shall be destroyed by it.

I, for one, am willing to fight for our survival. Because I don't want human civilization to just be a sorry footnote in the history of life on planet Earth

TOP 10 Most beautiful beaches in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Fernando De Noronha, Brazil

Fernando De Noronha, is is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, around 220 miles offshore from the Brazilian coast.Probably the most beautiful beaches in the world where only a few people know about it. Fernando De Noronha is One of the Unesco World Heritage Site as “the most beautiful marine park in the World”.

2. Maldives

The best calm beach in the world. Beautiful, quiet, modern and secluded. The very rare combination found on the beaches in the world. Welcome to Maldives.

 3. Anguilla

Ranked first in the top 10 World Best beaches of 2005 by the Discovery Channel Travel and Adventure certainly not a nonsense. Anguilla has it all. Quiet, clean, modern, complete with little island life that really “Carribbean''
4. Boracay, Philippines

Boracay is an island in the Philippines that located about 200 miles south of Manila and 2 kms from the northwest tip of Panay island in the Visayas Region in Philippines. In 1990, It was elected by the BMW Tropical Beach Handbook as one of the best beaches in the world and again in 1996 by the British publication TV Quick as the world’s number one tropical beach.

5. Horseshoe Bay, Bermuda

Bermuda is one of the most expensive place for beach tour in the world. But that didn’t stop thousands of tourists come to visit this island every year. The friendly weather, friendly calm water and waves, crystal clear water, and the pink sand make Horseshoey Bay almost unparalleled with the rest beach of this planet. This is the best beach and island in Caribbean!

6. Kondoi, Coral beach Okinawa, Japan

Okinawa. the safest islands in the world. the door here is never locked. 3 of 10 the oldest human in the world live in these islands. Very relaxing atmosphere results from the atmosphere of a typical Japanese countryside combined with beautiful beaches. Magnificent! Just one thing need consideration, It’s expensive place.

7. Lanikai Beach, Hawaii

This beach is not so large, but this is a beach with the clearest water and cleanest blue in hawaii. Complete with view of two small islands called Mokuluas in the distance. Good Bye Waikiki

8. Mnemba Lodge, Tanzania

Most beautiful beaches in Africa continent, although not located in mainland of Africa. The trip to this beach is not easy, but if you have reached on this beach, everything seemed to be valuable with the relaxing white sand and very beautiful beach.

9. Tulum Beach, Mexico

One of the first resorts in Mexico. Perhaps hundreds years ago also had been used by the Mayan as a resort as well. Ever dream of swimming in the white sandy beach, calm and relax accompanied by a Background of mayan pyramid? Here your dream come true. You can also Escape into wonderful Villa La Estancia Puerto Vallarta resort and enjoy the vacation.

10. Whitehaven, Australia

7 Kilometers of cleanest white sand beach in one of the most isolated coast in the world would certainly be sufficient for our relaxing need. Isn’t It? Sunglasses is a necessity at this beach because the sand is truly white.


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ANTIOS LEUKADA....

After a special month stay in Lefkada, it is time to leave .. Promo by Advance kite and cabrinha board next stop is in Athens...!!
JUST GOOD TIMES HERE/////
Have fun mates..!!

The younger princess of kite!!

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thnx olga!!

BECAUSE EVERY GOOD DAY START WITH SICK VIBE...!

Wave riding!!

Getting off the beach Make sure you are in at least knee deep water so you don't rip your fins out when you get up on the board.

Head slightly downwind initially to generate speed.

Keep up a moderate amount of speed but control it so you don't get launched when you hit the first wave or whitewater.

To get over  whitewater bend your knees and suck up the wave and let your board ride up over the foam. Kite position is really important. Keep your kite at 45% or better still have your kite pulling down as you hit the foam. This will pull you down and help you stick to your board. A combination of these 2 skills will ensure you stay on the kiteboard with or without straps.

If the wind is light you will need to move your kite to generate enough speed to penetrate the waves.

Catching Waves From out the backThis technique is used when there is a decent swell and the wind is cross on or side shore.

Turn in front of a swell and get enough speed to stay on the moving wave.

As the waves steepens you will feel the power of the wave replacing the power of the kite.

Turn your kite down low in front of the wave and unhook as you begin to take the drop. Keep the kit low and make small adjustments as you ride along the face.

Initailly start out on the shoulder of the wave but as your confidence increases you will be able to take off closer to the pocket of the wave.

Whip at techniqueThis is great fun and basically involves doing a turn on the face of the wave to catch it.

It works in most wind directions.
1, Ride out with moderate speed

2 As you see a wave you want to ride bear away slightly downwind to get more speed.

3 Initiate the kite turn as the wave passes under the kite and spot you turn on the wave

4 Turn on the face off the wave maintaining speed and ensure your kite finishes low and in the direction that you are heading.

5 Unhooking is best done just after the turn when you start kitesurfing the wave.

Hot tip - If it is light wind unhook before the turn to generate more power and speed to catch the wave.

Bottom Turns

1 Head down the wave with feet in the sweet spot of your board. You will have unhooked just before this.

2 Keep your weight down over your heels and push hard on you back foot. The body position is like sitting back on a chair. Begin to look over your shoulder (leading) and this will create a nice smooth arcing turn.

 3 As you come up off the turn get your weight forward to carry on forward speed. If you don't you will stall and fall out the back of the wave.

 4 Look at the spot where you want go next .
hot tip - the amount of back foot pressure is directly related to how tight the turn is. A good bottom turn sets you up for the whole wave.


Top Turns

1 Look at the spot on the face where you want to turn

2 Plant your back foot and get your weight over your toes and initiate the turn. Looking back down the wave will help you complete the turn

Keep your weight forward to maintain speed, you can use your back hand for balance and support if you have let go of the bar.

4 As you head back down the wave flatten out the board to get ready for the next turn and keep your knees bent to absorb the drop. Hot tip Keep your kite down low and forward to help so you don'ride underneath it

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BEST TABOO....LETS ROCK'S

The Taboo introduces a new approach to building
the ultimate quiver of high performance kites.
Hooked or unhooked, on a wave or high above it,
racing ahead of the pack or simply riding on a whisper
of wind, each Taboo is uniquely engineered to optimize
performance for specific riding conditions..
This is the slogan of the new wonder weapon from best kite boarding the kite is due the next weeks to arrive in the shops and reflects a very interesting concept.
Since approximately 2000 manufactures adjust bar length or shape of the kite according to keeping the feel of the kite throughout the sizing the same Best is braking that habit now with reshaping drastically within the same kite range. So the 4. 5,5. 7. 8. 9 aims with a deep centre of effort and wide wingtips Unhooked surf enthusiasts and New school riders. This is reflected as well by the distribution of Dacron which is designed to be hit hard by the surf :D
The 10. 12. 14 approaches New school and big Kiteloop focused riders. Aggressive canopy shaping and a tip to tip profile is supposed to make more lift and creates a smoother feel through the kite loops.
The n15 and 17m one are light wind machines! A high aspect ratio and swept wingtips for relaunch make this kite a good light wind kite and a course racing wappon
we'll see if it delivers, but we are excited!!!


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The center in lefkada!!

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Milos Beach Resort is one of the 14 official JP/NP WINDSURF CENTERS of the Mediterranean and its the only one that disposes for rental the series JP Pro & Gold, masts X - COMBAT and booms X-6 Hybrid.

It is included in the official ADVANCE KITE TEST PRO CENTERS globally. Every year the equipment of the Club is renewed with the last year's models, while in August 2010, the models
of the year 2011 will also be available for rental.

Moreover there is variety in stock in F2, JP, STARBOARD, NEILPRYDE, TUSHINGHAM, GAASTRA, ARROWS, ADVANCE, CABRIHNA, NORTH, NAISH and SLINGSHOT.

You will also find wind & kite accessories as well as rich variety in beachwear.

All the students have a minimum 10% discount at the surf shop.

Dispose
Over 25 Pro Boards JP
Over 30 Pro Rings Neilpryde
Over 30 Boards JP
Over 35 Simple Rings Neilpryde

In August are available for rental and test all the new pro JP models and prototype Kites from the up coming year (2011).

                              LEFKADA ISLAND

The island of Lefkada
has two completely different morphological sides, west and east.

East side is all green, while the sea is almost always calm without waves or wind.
On this side, the biggest hotels of the island are situated as well as
the famous island of Onassis, Skorpios.
Nydri is the perfect place for wakeboarding, skiing etc.

The west side is exactly the opposite; wild beauty, open sea and four of the
most beautiful beaches of Europe: Ag. loannis, Kathisma, Egremni, Porto Katsiki.
Exotic locations and white beaches with pebbles from which the name of the
island of Lefkada was inspired (lefkes: white, ammoudies: beaches

And if you re tired from reading listen this....

STEP 15 - Jumping

There are three different steps you need to be acquainted with when jumping. These are Chop hop, Kite Piloting, and the combination of the two.

Chop hop

We divide jumping into 3 different sections: jumping only with your Kite Surfing Board, jumping by piloting your kite, and finally a combination of the two.
To perform a correct chop hop, you need to build up pressure, create some extra tension in the lines, and then use that extra tension, that extra power, to make a jump.

Create the tension by turning your Kite Surfing Board upwind. Push down the heel side of your back leg to turn your board upwind. As the kite will not be as fast as the board, extra tension is created in the lines, and pressure is built up. Release the pressure by stretching out your legs while turning the board downwind again.

Let’s take a closer look at the take off point. Turn your Kite Surfing Board into the wind by applying heel side pressure. Bend your knees a little more before turning upwind. As soon as your board points upwind and you feel the extra tension in the lines, stretch out your legs and release the rail by putting your board flatter on the water. Before landing, point the board more downwind. This enables a softer landing. Land the back of the board first and then the front. Absorb the landing with your knees.

Piloting the kite in this maneuver is not difficult. Set your kite at about half the height of the wind window and keep it there.


Kite Piloting

Using the power of the kite while jumping can result in phenomenal heights. First, let’s look at the movement of the kite.

The kite is set up higher in the wind window and then aggressively piloted backwards in order to keep it in the power zone. You will still be moving to one side of the wind window, but the kite is in the other half of the wind window so you will be lifted. While in the air, slowly pilot the kite back to the top. As soon as you land, pilot the kite back down to be able to ride away with speed.

From a top view, it will look like this. The kite is moved to the other side of the wind window. By piloting aggressively, the kite will stay in the power zone. Then, pilot the kite back to the top. The higher the jump is, the slower you will have to pilot the kite back. Once you have landed, pilot the kite through the power zone and ride away.

When jumping, quickly pilot the kite in the opposite direction in which you are riding. Once you are airborne, pilot the kite back to its original position. Use a lot of speed. The forward speed will be translated into upward lift as the kite is suddenly piloted to the other half of the wind window.

Start by doing very small jumps and with not too much speed. This section will discuss little jumps. When you start jumping higher, the kite movement will be a bit different.

Now let’s take a closer look closely at the kite movement. Position the kite a bit higher than half the height of the wind window, then pilot the kite aggressively to the back. As soon as you feel that you are being lifted, pilot the kite back to its original position.

The control bar must be pulled on one side to make the kite pilot to the back, as soon as you become lifted, or even a bit sooner, pull on the other side of the control bar to position your kite back in its original position.

Pull hard on the control bar with your backhand to pilot the kite to the back. Then, as soon as you are lifted, the kite is piloted back by pulling on the other side of the bar. Place your Kite Surfing Board downwind when landing. The kite will pull you downwind so you will have to land with your board pointing downwind.

Right after liftoff, pull your kite back into its normal position.

A kite needs time to be turned around, especially when it is a big kite. So when you want to pilot the kite to a certain position, start piloting in advance.


Combination

Once you are comfortable with the kite movement, you can combine the technique of the chop hop with the kite movement.

You will have to coordinate the edging and the position of the kite to get maximum height. Release your edge as soon as you feel the kite start to lift. Think about the time it will take you to pilot the kite overhead for it to create lift and also think about the time it will take you to edge the board so as to build up extra pressure. It takes time and practice to find this balance.

As with the chop hop, the board is turned slightly into the wind at take-off and then turned downwind with the landing. Look closely at the direction of the board during takeoff. Actually, you should move the board into the wind at take off.

When jumping higher, the kite movement will be a bit different compared from the previous section. When the jumps are small, the kite will have to be piloted back as soon as you take off. This is a simplified technique for jumping. The theory behind jumping is that after takeoff, you stop the kite from flying backwards by placing the bar parallel to the water. The higher you go, the longer the kite has to stay overhead before returning to its original position. As you can see, the kite is piloted slowly back overhead.

If you want to make higher jumps, you will have to pilot more aggressively. If you have enough speed and there is a strong wind, pilot the kite more aggressively by pulling the kite more in front of you where it will catch more wind. The result will be a higher and farther jump. Just before landing, the kite is piloted back to its original position.


Tips and Tricks

1. First, get comfortable with the kite movement only. Build up your speed and pilot faster when you are ready for it.

2. Let go of your Kite Surfing Board if you are in trouble and stay focused on keeping your kite overhead.

3. If your kite keeps crashing because you lose tension on the lines, let go with your backhand to force yourself to pilot the kite back.

4. If you don’t pilot the kite back to its original position, you will not be able to land correctly.

5. Again, if the kite is not piloted back to the original position before landing, the landing will not be soft.


Master the three different steps you need to know when jumping for you do with ease on water. Refer to the tips and tricks above to learn this tricky technique easier.

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STEP 14 -Toeside

Riding toeside is a fun way to ride. Likewise, it makes it possible to do some nice transitions. There are two ways to end up in a toeside position. You can slide or jump into this position.When sliding, it is important to switch your weight from your heelside to your toeside at exactly the right time.

Push out your back leg to initiate the slide. As soon as your board has slided 90 degrees, change your weight to your other leg and change the weight from your heelside to your toeside.

Usually, you let go of the bar with one hand. This is not necessary but makes your body position a lot more comfortable.

Once you’re in a toeside position, divide your weight over both your legs.

Changing into toeside while jumping follows the same principles as sliding; only it is performed while in the air.

Body position

Because you‘re in an awkward position, it will take you a while to ride comfortable this way. With practice, it will feel the same as when riding normally.

What’s important is to divide your weight evenly as you would do while riding normally. Again, your front leg is less bent than your back leg. As you can see, it is much more comfortable if you leg go with one hand.

The more speed you have, the higher you will jump

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