16 posts
So i finally had the balls to try one,
went around with the kite,
felt the surge
and then when it comes to land,
I loose all power and drop like a stone...on my balls..OUCH! lol!
was trying a backroll kiteloop...
qn is, so how do you land? after going around and then loosing the power surge and speed
WA
1450 posts
try to take the landing on the board, not your balls. Your pussied out.
softer landings come from smaller faster kites and more wind, penalty for failure increases hugely though. You want to be landing when the kite is going up. Watch the lenten vid, to get the idea, of course if u do ****up mid air its going to hurt like hell.
remember kiteloops are frikken random aswell. No 2 are the same, sometimes you do it and its perfect next time u do it the same and you get destroyed.
SA
2288 posts
Try pointing your board downwind and putting all your weight on your back foot. Also the slower you go through the loop the lower the kite will get and the more through the power zone it will go. If you dont crank it hard enough it will go to the power zone and luff and you will drop like a stone. For begginers crank it as hard as you can from the start.
WA
530 posts
to start with do a big boost and loop it on the way down to get a feel they are easy and not much penalty
points to remeber: the faster and the harder edge u come into it with will also determine how big u go... eg u come screaming in with a super hard edge u aer going to go huge! and to learn u will just have to try and land those " rock landing"
