+1UKSurf wrote:What I do is park my kite and the edge of the window and hold it there with one hand, with the other hand and legs doggy paddle direcly towards the board. Seems to work alot better for me that just using the kite, give it a go and see.
are you kidding me? that sounds incredibly exhausting, no way am I gonna swim I just point at where I wanna go relax and moments later there's the boardrocktor wrote:+1UKSurf wrote:What I do is park my kite and the edge of the window and hold it there with one hand, with the other hand and legs doggy paddle direcly towards the board. Seems to work alot better for me that just using the kite, give it a go and see.
You recover your board so quickly that way though. Remember times when you body drag and miss your board by an inch?edt wrote:are you kidding me? that sounds incredibly exhausting, no way am I gonna swim I just point at where I wanna go relax and moments later there's the boardrocktor wrote:+1UKSurf wrote:What I do is park my kite and the edge of the window and hold it there with one hand, with the other hand and legs doggy paddle direcly towards the board. Seems to work alot better for me that just using the kite, give it a go and see.
swimming is for when you explode the kite
Agree 100% with edt on this oneedt wrote:are you kidding me? that sounds incredibly exhausting, no way am I gonna swim I just point at where I wanna go relax and moments later there's the boardrocktor wrote:+1UKSurf wrote:What I do is park my kite and the edge of the window and hold it there with one hand, with the other hand and legs doggy paddle direcly towards the board. Seems to work alot better for me that just using the kite, give it a go and see.
swimming is for when you explode the kite
still too lazy to swim, lol I'll just do another tack no problemo. go for it if you want, I swim enough already when I explode a kite, no way am I doing extra swimming just for a board I would be swimming all day.rocktor wrote:
You recover your board so quickly that way though. Remember times when you body drag and miss your board by an inch?
Maybe you need a bit more than 3 inches I dunno exactly how much but definitely you don't need waist deep water. It feels like 3 inchesPeter_Frank wrote: I definitely dont agree you can bodydrag "upwind" in 3 inches of water - as if you have sufficient power to plane without any "keel" effect, you can not really go upwind.
I know what you're talking about, but you don't want to walk in that garbage either it will put holes in your feet. Original poster was talking about practicing body dragging, of course he could walk it up if he had to.frankm1960 wrote:How come you can't walk up wind with the kite again ? I don't think you wanna body drag in shallows, you never know whats there you're scrapping up against... especially if the area was just dredged out
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