Heyyo !
I am afraid of heights but I am addicted to big air and jumping as high as I can. I know, weird...
My question is, what does it take to go past my 10m plateau and then, loop ? Big air addicts out there, show me the truth ..
Chris
I'm big and can hold down power. Edge, pull hard. Like that .. trust me, I was surprised as well.
The looping is for added effect, say, like the cherry on top ..
Thank for this, it's great stuff. A couple of comments from me.Icantdecideonakite wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:50 pmIm not really a big air guy. Im big in to my wakestyle.
But speaking to allot of big air guys they say the key is board control.
Right now your high wind max is not limited by the depower in your kite but your ability to hold the power and drive the kite towards the edge of the wind window with your board. Don't worry though i'm in the same boat.
From here you need to be rigging bigger kites in stronger wind and develop your high power board control. But please be safe.
Another technique i've used to coach people to jump higher is to rig a kite size so that you can only just hold your upwind ground(underpowered). Then go out and practise sending the kite super hard and redirecting hard(downloop landing).
This method of practise is fantastic. You have to really dial in your technique to get height and you can also experiment with sending your kite back as aggressively as you want and you wont get spanked. It'll also improve your balance suspended under a kite as you'll have to counter against the erratic kite movements.
Ive used this method with people and as soon as i put them back on to a powered size kite they make massive improvements on where they were before.
Let us know how you get on and if you do jump 20m please film it. Good luck!
Hey thanks for this watched the trailer. Yeah it makes sense a lot of sense, will look into to it for sure.nothing2seehere wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 12:03 pmHave you watched Anton's video - Learning to Fly part 2? I really rate it. Worth the money.
He explains how to bridge that gap from just pulling and sending to getting much bigger air. There are a bunch of exercises in there as well. He shows 10m+ jumps on flat water in moderate wind (20-25 knots ) to demonstrate the technique works.
Essentially his technique is to push the kite to the edge of the window just before sending it and then redirect as it luffs back into the power as this luff will have less pull so you can keep your edge with more power in the kite.
I'm not good enough to explain it any better than this and as they say a tutorial video is worth a thousand words