@FSU

you got everything but hand position, your kite is outta control while you got everything else dialed.

move your hands forward, back hand split on the CL, front hand in front to keep that kite stable


+++original poster take note, FSU's kite ends up much higher and even going the opposite direction but he still lands to blind. His upper body is folded at the waist allowing his arm to fold against his back letting him rotate farther around than you and not get pulled over

I think front hand to be splitted on CL instead of back one is correct. That`s the way to keep the kite stable when rotating instead of backlooping it as the previous video shows...

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yes you guys are right. a friend pointed out that the kite was downlooping due to front hand bar pressue. i have since been doing them with FH index finger over CL and been sticking them. logic would have it then that for landing to wrapped you need to have you BH in the middle to stop a kiteloop? i'm also findin that I send the kite during s-bends. perhaps need to do the same thing with the BH again.

on another side note, how do you do unhooked crail grabs? friend said the trick is to do raley and then push bar down hard towards hip so that it is close enough and you have time to grab the rail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZo2V-advQ

initiate like you would a front roll keeping the bar low, throwing out yer back leg and reaching with back hand stops rotation. once you let go youll get stretched out

I keep going with R2B, almost there, started to land many, but still far from 100% landing. What I've learned:

1. Learning to pass from your stronger arm (right) to weaker is much easier!
2. Pushing your front leg back when you pull the bar is very important.
3. I fount it much easier to learn in underpowered condition.
4. Tricky part [for me] is landing blind, that's why it's good idea to start with hooked-in powered pop to blind.

I'm still looking for advice, why I still miss the pass sometimes.

Keep the kite lower. You do a raley with your kite almost at zenith, much harder to do a pass then, as you won't get any slack in your lines and the kite will keep pulling your arms off.

Kite is pretty low, check successful attempt at 2:15. It looks like kite is in zenith, but you can see from slacked lines, that it ain't. Also you can see from fail at 2:45, looks like kite is in zenith, but it falls to water only 2 secs after! It takes 6-10 secs for it to fall from zenith.

Mighty fine landings.

Only thing we'd suggest to get the consistency up, would be to pull much harder on both arms before throwing the blind. This will keep the bar closer when you land, offering you more slack, stop the kite down looping and prepare you for the blind judge!

On all your sweet efforts you're up over the bar with bent arms, same as pulling hard. On the more wobbly ones you're turning to blind with straight arms, without the pull. Only important difference.

Here's a Quick Tip vid we did, may help:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... ature=plcp

All the best C&K

Mr Harris, thanks for tips, will try to pull much harder.
And one more "thanks" for QT videos, well done, already watched R2B many times

keep your kite lower. hold the bar with a stronger grip. Keep your hand in the center with the line splitting between your pointer and middle finger. Don't tweak your raily out as much until you dial in the landing without a problem.

Don't let the bar go!