Glad you are enjoying. Just keep practicing you will eventually understand a bit more. There are many scenarios that could explain some sort of lift on way down. Most likely you went from no lift/falling (either kite too far back, or swinging under it) to a situation where kite had power (closer to 12 and a bit deeper in window) and therefore gliding down instead of falling like a stone haha.BCKiter123 wrote:Just getting into jumping and experienced something amazing yesterday. Coming down from the jump, there was a momentary and secondary lift that really slowed my descent, almost as if floating. Perhaps it was a gust or maybe I moved my kite in a certain way to cause this? I have no idea, I was just trying to avoid landing flat on my face lol. But if there's a technique to recreate this secondary lift to soften my landings, please do tell.... Thanks!
Yes this is happening to me often. I think when I mis-time sending of the kite and I lose my edge, I end up swinging under the kitejeromeL wrote: But at the beginning you often swing under kite and loose power (kite is upwind of you), it is important to move the kite left and right keeping it near 12 downwind of you.
Quick clarification. I can already do downloop transitions consistently, so is the 'jump downloop transition' exactly the same thing except with a jump? Terminology sometimes confuses me. So if I'm left foot forward, once I'm in the air I'll pull on my left hand to make the kite go from about 11o'clock to 6 to 1. This will send me 'somewhat' in the opposite direction ( as the kite is moving through the power zone and going to pull me 'mostly' downwind), so I just have to spot my landing and switch my feet, aim downwind, then edge upwind again after I land?jeromeL wrote:As you get more comfortable you need to learn landing loop. That will really teach you to understand where kite needs to be to create lift and get you comfortable diving it deep in window for proper landing. You can lookup steps to work on small jump downloop transition and work your way up from there once you can land small jump consistently.
Before you try make sure you can do a 6 feet jump with low speed going straight up and loosing almost no ground. I would probably avoid a 12m on high range at first, maybe try 10 on less medium power. Later you can do it on any kite size even 18m since timing of loop doesn't matter at all.BCKiter123 wrote:Thanks for your responses.
Quick clarification. I can already do downloop transitions consistently, so is the 'jump downloop transition' exactly the same thing except with a jump? Terminology sometimes confuses me. So if I'm left foot forward, once I'm in the air I'll pull on my left hand to make the kite go from about 11o'clock to 6 to 1. This will send me 'somewhat' in the opposite direction ( as the kite is moving through the power zone and going to pull me 'mostly' downwind), so I just have to spot my landing and switch my feet, aim downwind, then edge upwind again after I land?
I assume it's also possible to loop the kite on the other side (pull right hand), as I've seen in some videos, to complete a full loop instead of half loop. Just wondering which one you were referring to/suggesting for starting out.
Thanks again, I find that visualizing what I need to do beforehand helps!
I used to do those prior to learning proper sent jump, I would pop then send kite. (learned pop prior to sent kite jump)plummet wrote:Powered up In on/cross/on conditions with a head high kicker I quite like to rip at the kicker and smash off the lip while the kite is still climbing. So there's no lift from the kite initially. But the speed and kicker still give you a good 10 foot of height. Then time the kite send for when you hit the apex of your ramp jump (send a bit further back than usual), Bar in hard and whamo, Secondary lift. A very cool sensation. Then the kite is quite a way back, redirect hard as hell or downloop/heli loop landing. Usually you land fast as hell but super smooth sometimes slack lining the kite on landing.
Sweet..... Do you also edge upwind as you are climbing the kicker???plummet wrote:Powered up In on/cross/on conditions with a head high kicker I quite like to rip at the kicker and smash off the lip while the kite is still climbing. So there's no lift from the kite initially. But the speed and kicker still give you a good 10 foot of height. Then time the kite send for when you hit the apex of your ramp jump (send a bit further back than usual), Bar in hard and whamo, Secondary lift. A very cool sensation. Then the kite is quite a way back, redirect hard as hell or downloop/heli loop landing. Usually you land fast as hell but super smooth sometimes slack lining the kite on landing.
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