Can anyone give me some tips on where i should be putting the kite after i take off when trying to do transitions? I have no problems getting height but i seem to fall pretty quickly and slap the board on the water. Not sure i'm ready to kite loop.
I think i might be too slow or too quick in dipping the kite in the direction i want to go.
Thanks.

Thanks lex,
after thinking about for a bit it think i am just doing everything a bit too slow when i'm in the air.
Cheers.

if your doing the pendulum thing and under flying the kite , your going landing with a plonk, speeding up the kite wont necessarily help either.. in fact with poor take off it may make your landing worse because your going to stay longer in the air with more height and hence pendulum more , looping as you come in to land effectively helps to bring the kite forward of your position so you don't pendulum in the landing.

also work on edging and pop as you send the kite , carve aggressively upwind just as you send the kite up, you should be able to transition real slow/lazy with sending the kite and land smoothly, so speeding everything up with the kite isn't such a factor in my humble opinion as your edge in board take off.

Pretty much, if you find that fter the transition you dive the kite but still don't have enough power to keep going then a downloop will help greatly. You can also start doing them earlier and earlier until you are essentially doing a kiteloop.

Enjoi
Matt