The railey is one of the first unhooked moves you will attempt, and you will probably love the
feeling. You can allways spot your landing, and the feeling of getting extended while the kite
is pulling you forward is close to free flying.
A tiny guide
1. Ride alittle downwind and unhook
2. Take off by sending your board upwind [...]
Archive for the ‘2008 Australia’ Category
January 5, 2009
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Trick: Railey
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, Kiteboarding, My Tricks
December 29, 2008
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Our journey south
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, Kiteboarding, ReiserGuro had a perfect day in “Safety bay”, got up on the board both ways and started to get the hang off how to slow down and accelerate on the board. I had an epic session aswell, perfect flat water, first thing I did was a huge low backmobe, stomped it. Super proud off myself, [...]
December 15, 2008
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My new old friend
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, ReiserThe thing with kiteboarding is that after a while you start beating yourself up when you just can’t seem to land the new tricks you are working on. You start to over analyze it and go out for a session just with learning the new trick in mind. When you start doing this, it’s easy [...]
December 15, 2008
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Trick: Backmobe
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, Kiteboarding, My TricksThe backmobe is my nemesis in tricks, I have been working on it for so long that I can’t really recal
when I started trying to go for it. It’s one of thoose tricks that for me is almost impossible to get
consistantly. But there is a few key points I would like to share with you [...]
December 15, 2008
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Trick: Backroll
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, Kiteboarding, My Tricks, ReiserThe backroll is one of my favoritte moves, it’s easy to learn and a springboard to so many other
tricks. You can do the backroll is many different ways and the way you do them will determine the
style on all the other tricks that revolves around a backroll. Like the backroll 2 revert,
backroll 2 blind, KGB [...]
December 8, 2008
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My first kite related “injury”
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, ReiserAfter some session beeing fully overpowered on my 9m2, it has happend. After a failed backmobe attempt (god I hate this move!), I landed wrong and just couldn’t get my board around the final 40 degrees to land. I came down super hot and smacked my leg on the board, I have no idea how [...]
December 8, 2008
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Trick: Front with nose grab
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, Kiteboarding, My TricksFrontroll with a nose grab is an easy and kool move to do. It’s just like a frontroll, with small changes to get the grab on the board. The nose grab is a grab on the front tip of your board.
A tiny guide
1. Take off like a normal frontroll
2. Bend your forward knee up towards [...]
December 8, 2008
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Trick: Front with Indy grab
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, Kiteboarding, My TricksFrontroll with an indy grab is an easy and kool move to do. It’s just like a frontroll, with small changes to get the grab on the board. The Indy grab is a grab between your feet on your toeside edge.
A tiny guide
1. Take off like a normal frontroll
2. Try and get as inverted as [...]
December 3, 2008
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Our chilled days
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, ReiserAfter a maraton of nice days, we have gotten some gray weather with some showers. Not much wind, so we are just chilling drinking rum’n coke and watching films.
I have gotten a new obsession, grabs ….. soooo fun to try and grab every part of the board when you are doing front or back rolls. [...]
December 1, 2008
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Our epic days
By kimandre in 2008 Australia, ReiserThe last couple of days has just been incredible, lots of good kiteing, lots of wildlife, and Guro has started to bodydraging on her kite.
The new board is just fantastic, great pop, great control and great feel. I have finally gotten my tricks back, after 2 months of no kiteing … it takes about 2 [...]