just keep practising and try to copy your prefered stance, nobody can jump as well on their non-prefered as they can on their prefered, its like being right handed and trying to write with your left, after practise it will be fine.

ewan kite said...

just keep practising and try to copy your prefered stance, nobody can jump as well on their non-prefered as they can on their prefered, its like being right handed and trying to write with your left, after practise it will be fine.

I must be a bit weird then,yes I know that probably comes as a bit of a shock to you all.
I can jump better on my non-prefered side,go upwind better on my non-prefered side,actually......everything seems easier on my non prefered side.

Tried to go surfing the other day on my non-prefered side and couldnt do it.

In the words of Miss Hanson "Please Explain"

I reckon this whole preferred side thing is to do with preferred feet and hands more so than directions of movement.

If you have more control and natural coordination in your right foot and you can back roll when your right foot is back, then that would make sense as your right foot is doing most of the work.

You may ride upwind better the other way (right foot forward) because upwind ability has a lot to do with keeping just the right amount of front (ie rightfoot) pressure to not bog the board down and maintain waterline.

does that makes sense?

I can back roll well on the way out to sea and front roll well on the way back in because both involve the same rotation, not because I am goofy or regular.

omega said...

lotofwind said...

I must be a bit weird then,yes I know that probably comes as a bit of a shock to you all.
I can jump better on my non-prefered side,go upwind better on my non-prefered side,actually......everything seems easier on my non prefered side.

Tried to go surfing the other day on my non-prefered side and couldnt do it.

In the words of Miss Hanson "Please Explain"

Im in the same boat lotofwind, jumping and upwind are better than my preferred side. I think it has something to do with always trying to associate kiting with some other board sport (snowboarding, skating, surfing etc) throughout the learning process. So on my non preferred side i end up learning the way it should be done, whereas on my preferred side i keep doing the nasty habits of other board sports.

just a theory

In Snowboarding your stronger leg should be leading as you are supposed to be putting as much weight as possible over the front edges of your board, and initiating your turns through edging. Unless of course you live in North America and have metres of awesome pow at your disposal.

In kiting your rear leg does most of the work so that is probably why the law of opposites is applicable.

lotofwind said...

ewan kite said...

just keep practising and try to copy your prefered stance, nobody can jump as well on their non-prefered as they can on their prefered, its like being right handed and trying to write with your left, after practise it will be fine.

I must be a bit weird then,yes I know that probably comes as a bit of a shock to you all.
I can jump better on my non-prefered side,go upwind better on my non-prefered side,actually......everything seems easier on my non prefered side.

Tried to go surfing the other day on my non-prefered side and couldnt do it.

In the words of Miss Hanson "Please Explain"

yep i have a preferred side for riding waves/surface tricks, which is not the side i prefer for the larger jumps. Mine comes from riding certain locations i think..

IMHO time on the water and try breaking the process down into small simple steps. Maybe you're not holding a very good edge on your unpreferred side?