jaxchick wrote:I learned how to ride in waves, too. It's super frustrating but totally doable. Don't know if you use a seat or a waist harness, but one thing that I did that I haven't seen mentioned yet was that I switched from a seat harness to a waist harness. I felt like the seat harness was too cumbersome and didn't allow me to lift my knees quick enough. When you're in the waves, timing is everything and I felt I needed to be as quick as possible and that made a real difference for me.
Cool, I'll put all those things into practice. haha I do have a waist harness thankfully. Not to brag but I do have pretty good kite control because it took me a while to get money together to buy a board. I spent most of the summer body dragging and learning to fly the kite one handed and without looking at it etc. I know a lake that I'm gonna practice on for a bit then chance the sea again. thanks again for all the adviceFlight Time wrote:jaxchick wrote:I learned how to ride in waves, too. It's super frustrating but totally doable. Don't know if you use a seat or a waist harness, but one thing that I did that I haven't seen mentioned yet was that I switched from a seat harness to a waist harness. I felt like the seat harness was too cumbersome and didn't allow me to lift my knees quick enough. When you're in the waves, timing is everything and I felt I needed to be as quick as possible and that made a real difference for me.
Yeah, I learned in waves too. The supposed "instructor" who gave me "lessons" left me hanging before I learned even how to body drag upwind on a trainer. Went and bought a 16m Cab SB new, and taught myself. Self launching, self landing... Youtube was a great help for technique. Once you get up on the board and can stay on it for stretches of 15 seconds or more, the rest of edging and staying upwind will take maybe one solid day of practice.
+1 on seat harnesses. Plus, they look like f-kin diapers.
Funniest thing about everyone having a good side and a bad side is that it's usually not the side you think. When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time on skateboards. It was my main transportation, I would skate ramps, street, miles at a time, for years. My left foot was always in front, which I suppose would be a port tack for us. In 2 days after getting up on a board kiteboarding, my favorite direction switched to right foot forward, or starboard tack, for general riding, and it remains that way 2 years later. It is by far my favorite side for jumping. For any tricks that involve rotation, however, its back to left foot forward.balugh wrote:Lots of what's been said above plus if you get an opportunity to do a little bit of wakeboarding (behind a boat or at a cable park) then do it as the board skills are very transferrable. However, do make sure that you practice starting both ways (i.e. to your left and right). Everyone has a better side...so work on the one that isn't as good.
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