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Trick: Slim Chance

kimandre — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:00:15 +0000

The Slim Chance is one of the fastest handelpass tricks I have ever learned while kiteboarding. It took a grand total of 2 days to get it down. The hole secret was to do them the oposite way of what I had previously done. Using my strong arm (right hand) to hold the bar and passing it to my weak arm (left arm).

A tiny guide
1. Ride alittle downwind and unhook (i still keep the kite pretty high on theese ones)
2. Take off by throwing yourself into an inverted frontroll
3. Try and bend your backleg as you start to get fully inverted
4. At the apex concentrate on having the bar close to your hips and push up with your backleg
5. Turn around and reach for the bar on the other side
6. Hold on like crazy on the bar if you go to high, cause it will try and snap out of your hand
7. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

Trick: Slim Dive

kimandre — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:38:13 +0000

How to crash with style.

My crash and burn

kimandre — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:35:16 +0000

You allways know it’s been a good day when your knees are soar and your entire body feels like it’s been in a wrestling match with someone twice your size. Then you know that you at least went for some new stuff and hopefully the next time, you wont get so beaten up.

What a freaking awesome sport!

Trick: Jump to blind

kimandre — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:01:36 +0000

One of my favoritte moves, just so much fun to do. This will be a perfect way to practice landing blind.

A tiny guide
1. Take off by sending the board upwind quite a bit and rotate your hips to land toeside
2. Hold the bar close to your hips
3. Now you have twisted the hips, untwist them by sending them and the board the oposite way
4. Let go with your fronthand and land blind
5. Take 60% of the landing with your backfoot
6. Pass the bar (if this is proven difficult cause the kite is to high, bend forward and stick your arse out to get the bar)

Trick: Railey

kimandre — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:00:43 +0000

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 and letting your body follow the kite
3. Extend fully and try to push the bar bellow you and the board above you
4. Spot your landing
5. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

Trick: Backmobe

kimandre — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:28:31 +0000

The 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 that might help you out.
The most important part is just not to overthink it to much when you start getting into it, just
focus on the little things and be sure to get enought momentum.

Key points
1. Know that there is two versions of the backmobe, the high (kite high) and the low (kite low)
2. The high backmobe is more inverted as the low backmobe is more about momentum
3. A backmobe is basically a backroll to toeside overrotated
4. There is a million different ways to do this trick
5. The momentum of the trick all commes from your takeoff and your board
6. Send the board as far upwind as possible
7. Keep the bar as close to your hip as possible (even make a tiny pull as you takeoff)
8. If you find that you just can’t get the bar, try to hold on for alittle bit longer

A tiny guide
1. Take off by sending your board as far upwind as possible
2. As your board is still travelling upwards in the backroll pull the bar towards your backhip hard
3. Use your head, where your head will go, the body will follow
3. Let go of your fronthand as you initate the toeside rotation and reach around
4. Imagine that you should now fall into the bar behind your back
5. Grab the bar with your fronthand
6. Spot your landing
7. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

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Trick: Backroll

kimandre — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:20:44 +0000

The 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 and backmobes.

A tiny guide
1. Take off by sending your board as far upwind as possible
2. Look over your front shoulder
3. Focus on trying to send the board upwards as you turn your head over your front shoulder
4. Spot your landing
5. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

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Trick: Front with nose grab

kimandre — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:52:53 +0000

Frontroll 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 your body and try to reach down to get the grab before your back is towards the water
3. Hold the grab for as long as you can and turn your head to finish the rotation
6. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

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Trick: Front with Indy grab

kimandre — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:48:02 +0000

Frontroll 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 possible (try to imagine doing a backflip in the middle of your front rotation).
3. Pull your legs up and grab the toeside edge of the board between your legs
4. Use the momentum from your legs to pull you around
6. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

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Trick: Back 2 blind with airpass

kimandre — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:23:59 +0000

The back 2 blind with airpass is an easy and nice trick to learn. It’s basicly a backroll with a backside handelpass landing toeside (if you land heelside it’s called a KGB).

A tiny guide
1. Take off like a normal backroll
2. Try and get as inverted as possible
3. Pull the bar hard towards your front hip
4. At the apex of the jump, iniate the backside handelpass rotation by looking over your back shoulder hard as you let go with your back hand
5. Grab the bar behind your back with your back hand, and try to balance yourself as you come down to land
6. Bend your knees to absorve the landing

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The more inverted your are, the easier it is to pass the bar. If you find that you simply cannot get the bar, try to invert yourself more and pull the bar harder towards your front hip. If the board has fallen to far down towards the water is almost impossible to get the bar if your kite is a bit too high. So the higher the kite, the more inverted you need to be.