Awesome! For some reason i can do great jumps and landings with low effort and on other days i just can't seem to do the landing right and fall out of the air real hard while pulling the bar. Any ideas? Maybe it's the conditions (gusty wind or so).
As with most of the videos I've seen on this topic, great advice, but near impossible for a beginner to remember and actively apply. I'm taking lessons (4 to date) and my instructor says the same things, more or less, but I still have problems applying it all in practice. Haven't yet managed to get up on the board and head in the right direction! Having said that, the bit about stretching one leg to change/control direction of the board before start, could be the tip I needed - I'll try tomorrow. The one thing a learner can't control is the weather, regardless of the fact that you say it's easier to learn without waves. I'm on vacation, I came to a particular coastal area, the weather IS what the weather is! These past few days, we've had force 4 winds gusting to force 6/7 (up to 64km per hour), breaking waves and anything but constant wind. As I see it, my options are 1. stop and try again next year, or 2. go with what I've got and try to learn in less than optimal conditions. I'll be 70 next year and I still don't have enough sense to give up! So I'll live with a few crashes and the occasional Superman stunt, plus the kite-surf school is making money out of me.
Hey Sam, do you still have the Dart? I just bought 2 of them (4m and 5m) for dirt cheap and looking forward to learning how to use them! (On land first, in a field, lol)
Thank You. Your information on the the standing up skill is exactly what I'm needing in this troubled progression and some of the tips I never tried. I would guess that %75 of my fatigue is spent just in the stand up effort. I come from 12 years of kite foiling and there's nothing similar to this in my history
cool video and what an awesome roadtrip!! Just wondering, how do you know it is deep eough for the foil and there arent no underwater obstacles like rock on an unknown spot?
Learned the first tip the hard way 😂. Started with a 4.5m and it was very frustrating. Then bought a 5.5m and everything changed. I’m 70kg and I use the 5.5m even in 25 mph winds, is a bit tiring but I prefer being overpowered rather to being underpowered. I’m using a 98L board (5”4), is not the best to learn but in my second session I was able to get ahold of it. After 6 sessions I was riding my brother’s 75L board. It all depends on your abilities but a bigger board is easier for sure.
Only just came across this guys and loved watching, living the dream. great video, so pleased you took the drone. I would love to be able to do this in my boat
This used to be my No 1 channel but ever since you brought the "Orka" you seemed to have stopped kitesurfing. Have you become a modern day Captain Quint and taken up sharking for a living off the shores of Hayling?
Hi all, I am new ti this channel and to the wing sup as well. I want to know how difficult it would be to navigate the inflatable SUP without a big daggerboard in the middle of the board? I just bought a SUP without a middle fin and I don't want to convert it due to warranty. Woulld it be rough to sail on it with a wing?
You keep saying the board should be perpendicular to the kite. Shouldn't it rather be parallel to the kite and perpendicular to the direction of the wind?
Thanks for the video. I want to buy gear, 85 kgs living near a small lake with not so much wind often. What should I buy?? 125 liter with a 8 meter and a 5 meter or so?
