Hello there

i am in need of advice and would appreciate anything anyone can give, my problem arises when riding right foot forward, basically after 25 years of left foot forward surfing i just struggle to do it. I cannot work out what i am doing wrong. (Althugh my weight is all to cock on the board, ie right foot holds all the pressure)

On rides right foot forward i can absolutly honk out, hold my line, even head up wind on those rare occassions, turning is still a drama but i am getting better slowly.

Anyone got any suggestions

TOW it is i will definatly be in the water much more this season, hopefully. I seem to be learning all the time, especially the foot placement thing that has improved no end.

It's funny i am looking real cool on the outward journey but look like a real flounder on the way back in.

thanks for the tips.

I had been surfing for 25 years before I took up kiting a couple of years back, and you are right, that kiting on your wrong my wrong tack tack was a night mare. I could ride toe side heaps easier on a mutant than reverse on a twin tip. But, I wanted to do the twin tip thing bit, 3 days of getting smashed on the river trying to ride reverse, and I'm not kidding getting smashed, THEN ONE MOMENT riding reverse was a piece of piss.
Get smashed a lot on the river and you will get it. Like all things kiting, every thing new takes balls, but after you get the new move it seems really simple.
Keep trying, twin tips rule and flat water and in waves...