First, manage to stabilize your Kite Surfing Kite while your feet are in the foot straps. Make sure that the kite is in the neutral zone or at the top of the wind window. Even if the kite moves slightly to one side, you will lose stability and you will not be able to get your feet in the straps.
Pull the Kite Surfing Board towards you and take hold of the board with your foot on the rear strap while you insert your front foot in the front strap. Then insert your back foot in the rear strap. Twist your feet to tighten your grip on the board. Place your feet in the straps at an angle or by curling your toes to increase your grip. Now slowly pilot your Kite Surfing Kite from one side to the other, keeping your Kite Surfing Board in front of you. You will have to move your weight around to keep stability.
Kite traction
In the next section, you will learn how fast you need to pilot the kite in order to generate enough traction to be pulled onto your board.
Pilot the kite from one side to the other and move your weight in the opposite direction to which the kite is moving. Keep repeating this exercise until you are pulled onto your board. If you need more traction, pilot faster so that the kite will move lower through the windwindow. Don’t worry about stands at this stage. This exercise is meant to introduce you to the amount of power needed to pull you onto the board.
Waterstart
Now that you’ve been introduced to the power of the Kite Surfing Kite and the amount of traction you need to be pulled onto the Kite Surfing Board, you are ready to try a waterstart.
First, concentrate on your body position and the kite movement that will pull you onto your board. Don’t worry about riding yet. For a waterstart, the kite needs to be piloted straight through the power zone. In order to accomplish this, set the kite slightly behind you. Pilot the kite from one side to the other fast. The faster you pilot, the more the kite will move through the powerzone, thus generating more power. As the kite moves down in the powerzone, it generates more and more traction and will eventually pull you onto your board. Be sure to pilot the kite back up again before it hits the water. Pilot it slowly so that it will move to the side of the wind window and lose its traction.
When starting out, position the kite slightly behind you. Should the kite be straight above, you would not be able to pilot the kite through the powerzone sufficiently. As the kite moves more in front of you, it will catch more wind and at one point, you will be pulled onto your board. Stop the kite from moving downwards and pilot it to the side of the wind window. At the edge of the wind window, the kite will not generate any traction so you will fall back into the water.
The kite moves through the powerzone and returns on the edge of the wind window. The starting position is right to the top of the windwindow, moves through the powerzone, and returns on the edge of the wind window.
Now let us go to the best body positioning for the waterstart. Your legs should be bent, your front leg less bent than your back leg.
Crouch down and make your shoulders close to the bar so that you will be easily pulled onto the Kite Surfing Board. Anticipate the pull the kite will generate by moving your weight onto your back leg. As soon as your board is completely out of the water, move your weight slightly back to your front foot. Your front leg should be less bent than your back leg. In this way, you will waterstart slightly downwind that is precisely what you want. Your board needs to speed up before you will be able to turn the board and set the preferred course.
Stay in the powerzone
After waterstarting, you need to keep the kite in the powerzone so that you will not fall back in the water right after. Pilot the kite as you would while waterstarting but when the kite gets close to the water, pilot the kite aggressively back up again. The kite has to stay in the powerzone, in front of you, and should not fly to the edge of the windwindow. The lower the wind conditions, the faster you have to pilot.
At this point, the kite stays in the powerzone all the time. Therefore, after it has been piloted down, it should be piloted straight back up keeping it in the powerzone.
Make sure that you keep the kite in one side off the window and it does not fly it into the other half.
For beginners like you, it is safer to practice waterstarting with a small kite. This is also the reason why you need to pilot the kite up and down as much. When using a bigger kite, you can keep the kite more in one place.
Start first edge later
Maneuver your board when you have some speed. When the wind conditions are lower, you need longer time to go downwind to pick up speed.The kiteboard is maneuvered downwind until the board has enough speed. Then for you to maneuver it upwind, apply heel side pressure.
Tips and Tricks
A common mistake made by kite surfers is that the Kite Surfing Kite is not piloted through the powerzone. In the powerzone, it does not generate enough traction to pull you onto the Kite Surfing Board. The kite moves on the edge of the wind window.The movement of the kite will look like this. The kite stays in the neutral zone of the wind window. Pilot the kite faster to get more traction. If you do try to stand up, things can get funky.
If you are still not pulled onto your board even if you are already piloting fast, change to a bigger kite or a bigger board.
As the wind will be different every time you practice, adapt your piloting to the strength of the wind. Start piloting slowly. You can only start piloting more aggressively if the kite does not generate enough traction.
Don’t waterstart until you are totally stable or else you will not succeed. Set the kite at the top, find stability and try again.
If you don’t bend your back leg more than your front leg, your Kite Surfing Board will not get any grip on the water.
Point your board downwind by stretching out your front leg and pulling in your back leg.
If you steer your board too soon upwind, the board will not have enough grip. Point your board downwind for a longer while.
Don’t practice waterstarting with onshore winds. You can start with onshore winds if you are already an experienced rider.
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