Kitesurfing technique - Body draggingWritten by Jakob Jelling
This article will offer you several kitesurfing techniques that will help you advance in kitesurfing sport. Remember to practices everything enough times until you become completely comfortable with kitesurfing techniques.One of kitesurfing techniques that we would like to discuss in this article is body dragging. This is a more advanced technique and you should be familiar with basic techniques before proceeding to this one. You will need to practice following steps (down wind body drag technique). First of all, step in water and get underway with your kite. Try to use power of your kite to body drag yourself across water area. Practice 8 shape patterns and sine wave patterns on left and right sides, landing your kite and launching it. The upwind body dragging kitesurfing techniques are analogous to down wind body drag technique. The only difference is that you will need to position your kite at right or left side of wind screen and keep one of your hands beneath water.
| | Kitesurfing techniques - Launching & landingWritten by Jakob Jelling
There are many different kitesurfing techniques that are important to kitesurfing sport. This article will focus on some basic kitesurfing techniques that will help you improve you kitesurfing skills and will allow you to have more fun and enjoy your experience while kitesurfing. However, you will need to spend enough time practicing these techniques before you can say that you have mastered them.One of first kitesurfing techniques that you will need to learn are launching and landing techniques. Typically you will have to follow following steps to learn launching techniques. First of all, place kite on surface with foremost edge facing air stream. Then grip control pole, fasten security / safety strap. Bring in control pole and lower line in such a way that tip opens up. Now you can set kite free from surface. You can pull upper line to make kite go up.
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