How to kitesurf upwind: 3 tips to better upwind performance 

Awesome, Thanks John!

Hey. I can go upwind with the left leg( i ride snowboard with le left in front/can t do switch yet) but with the right leg i just can t do upwind. I cannot edge thoroughly and i get too much speed and get scared and...boom in the water🤪

Awesome thanks Nickesley!

Oh thanks Thomas!!! :) I appreciate that mate!

Awesome Felix! Let us know how it goes!

Thanks :)

That's a long way to walk dude. I guess by now you have it sorted.

Hey Peter, ha-ha, well you can always come back and revisit. i do that all the time with tricks i am learning :)

Thanks John! Glad it helped mate

Stoked to hear! Thanks heaps for the comment :) Let us know if there's any skills you'd like to see covered in a video & we'll work it into the schedule. Thanks again & we'll cya in the next one ~Flukes KItesurfing

Really great video! Thanks for doing what you do! Clear and practical. An excellent teacher 🙏

Awesome Sara! Lets us know how you progress :)

Thanks Raghu!

Good stuff Rob! let us know how it goes!

What equipment is appropriate to start...which belt which kite??????

​@@mannytuzman3461 First you get experience from kite lessons and later you will try different brands.

awesome! thanks for letting us know it worked for you :)

Yes Luke Rules, good camera work also, absorbing all his videos

Awesome well done! we're stoked to hear thanks for the comment :) ~Flukes Kitesurfing

Thanks Ron! And thanks for sharing how you picture it yourself, it sounds like you may have some boating experience? That would always help too! :)

Awesome thanks Jason!

Thanks Tomasz! Yeah, when you fly them enough its surprising how much feedback you get from the lines so you dont have to look :)

Awesome!

Cheers thanks for the comment :) happy to hear you enjoy the channel. Cya in the next one ~Flukes Kitesurfing

Great to hear! Have fun out there!

Thanks, we plan on getting a heap of new videos up soon :)

Glad it was helpful!

Nice one Brian, have fun down there :) We almost came to Baja too this season!

awesome!

Oh thanks Pawel! I appreciate it mate :)

Glad it was helpful :)

Glad it was helpful!

Perfect! Have fun out there

Glad it helped mate!

Perfect !thanks mate

Thanks Jarco!

Nice! Yeah i think a lot of people find that one helpful :)

Thanks Lucas, let us know how you go and what points helped you on the water :)

Glad you liked it Adriana :)

Great! Stoked to hear it helped you get upwind!

Perfect :)

Cheers Simon! appreciate the comment mate :) ~Flukes Kitesurfing

Awesome! Stoked it helped and thanks for letting me know

Awesome Dimi! Your riding upwind now?

YES !!! Due to your really useful and expecially detailed explanation !!! THX

Killer! glad to hear it mate :)

Cheers Lohan :) thanks for the comment mate ~Flukes Kitesurfing

Thanks DJ! Maybe one day we will do a physical school, for now we are just focused on the videos :)

haha glad you enjoyed! let us know how you :)

Hey Raluca, great thanks for the suggestion :)

Prefect! glad to hear it mate and thansk for letting us know

Thanks Andy!

for sure :)

Hey Wesley, for sure, great idea and thanks for the suggestion! Have you tried with a board yet?

Search for 'Kitesurfing Right of way' and you'll learn some good tips!

Also, good luck! : )

woohoo congrats on the upwind session! Thx for the comment :) ~Flukes Kitesurfing

What was the other one?

Awesome, thanks Dave! and haha, yes the Dominican was great. We are in Canada now and it has actually been an amazing season so far :) Just need to find a place we can film and get some more videos up!

My son spent a couple of years in Canada, snow boarding. He kited the lakes in Kelowna BC during the summer. Warm weather but the wind can get a bit tricky around the lakes. Canada is BIG so I'm sure you will find an amazing location to kite. Enjoy.

Nice! Yes, some of the lakes here are amazing for kiting in summer. Coincidentally the snow kiting video we made was around Kelowna :) Canada is an amazing country

hahaha! It does feel very real. Good luck and let me know how you progress!

Hey Yan, love to see the passion for understanding there mate! and yes, a good kiter might be able to achieve 30 degrees better than the perpendicular to true wind line, while an average kiter might simply be able to just keep up wind (to the same spot on the beach.) effectively making their tack zero degrees while a foil board can achieve above 30 degrees. So it depends greatly on technique and equipment. The diagram in the sand might seem confusing as it only shows the outward tack, and this beach is not perfectly crosswind, its cross onshore meaning that you lose a little down the beach on the way out and gain it on the way in. (This can be seen in the example at the end) so the apparent wind angle shifts to the other side and you can make ground on the way back not shown in the diagram. (dont want to many lines in the sand :) . Hope that all makes sense!

Thanks

Awesome thanks Ben!

Dovere Esserico nice! Yeah keep at it... it won’t take long

@@FlukesKitesurfing Thank you, sunday i will do a downwinder for the first time, hope i will get it!! 🤟

For sure!

Don't have you kite too low in the wind window, basically keep it higher to 12pm and don't pull too much on the bar.

Hey 2007, it sure is, but that is also part of the beauty of it... Once you get it... You stop looking at the kite, and you can really feel the wind through the bar feedback... Then it gives the great session of sailing and ripping along just using the power of the wind, and the edge of your board.. its awesome :)