Kitesurfing upwind step-by-step
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2021
- Are you a beginner kitesurfer?! This tutorial video will help you to reach fast your kitesurfing upwind ability. I guide you step by step! The ultimate kitesurfing upwind tutorial is out, with the most important principle in kiting!
Kiteboarding upwind will be always easy from now on.
seriously: Watch it even if you already riding upwind. It will solidify the skill. Happy riding folks, let me know in the comment what you like and what next you are keen to watch!
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Some clips were used from other yt channels
thanks for them! here are the names
• Ted Ligety GS Slow Motion
Ted Ligety skies
• BEST SLIDE MOTOGP IN S...
BEST SLIDE MOTOGP IN SLOW MOTION
• Jason's First Wakeboar...
Jason's First Wakeboard Tantrum (Slow Motion)
BIg up for them for the great shots. - Спорт
great explanation .... after watching this video I understand what I did wrong. After an afternoon of practicing on the water, I managed to keep up with the upwind. thanks for this explanation
WOw @Barry you made my day! I am so glad to hear that! Enjoy! :))
Best video about kitesurfing I have ever seen. Congrats ❤🎉
It is so easy to make my day. Just a comment 💪
Zolty, this is literally the best thought out explanaiton for upwind i've ever seen: simple, effective, understandable, easily reproducable at home. Seriously this is the best lesson one can get unless going for proper in person lesson with an actual good instructor. I know my instructions are great and effective, but i'll steal some of these lines, as seriously it couldn't be explained better.
Well Done.
Mate, really really appreciate your words. 🤙🤙🤙Thanks! Funny that you and your spot is the base of all hehe. Thanks for the footage 😁 and the Sicily times! Hopefully spring we meet there 🤙
After the “Best ever waterstart“ video then this one , I’m finally there . Fantastic tuition . I’m laughing as the advice rings in my head as it happens . As with all videos keep coming back because progression means one step at a time . Thank you 🙏
Probably the best intro ever of a kitesurfing tutorial, keep up the good work👍
awww, you just want to make me feel good :P thank you!!
Loved the intro! It was amazing one of my favorite movies :-)
Great video, thanks for the recommendation Stoka!
Glad to help!
Cheers for the link Stoka - very informative
Thanks Stoka for the video. Top work. 👍
Glad to help!
Most important video for all my students to watch
this is the best video of going upwind i have ever seen. It's a master piece
Thanks the comment! Spread the word! Appreciated!
JUST REAL WONDERFUL and best EXPLANATION ever in this tutorials along utube.
Brod you are amazing.
You help me a lot.. Keep doing it
OMG. that means a lot to me! thanks for sharing! :)
Epic video for real, took the red pill, now let's see how far the rabbit hole goes!
Thank you man! Artistic introduction, awesome explanation, great tips and inspiring videos!
Subscribed 👍 🌟
perfect explanation. very conceptual
Excellent video with awesome practical suggestions! While keeping the kite steady sailing at 45 degrees, and dynamically controlling line tension with your tips, it's kiting with flow.🪁🏄♂👏
wow thanks for that response!
Red pill! You the man Zolty
very good explanation , i will try it next time, thank you very much
very well explained! After my last lesson, I'm finally at the point where I can apply the tips of this video (I got the poop stance). The exercise seems like a great idea to get the feeling. I'm going to do that all day on my next session and couple with transition attempts!
An absolute EPIC explanation, easy to understand and makes a lot of sense ( for people who understand physics ) if you're not good at understanding physics it the long painful way to learn 🤣🤣🤣
Brilliantly executed as always mate.
thank you stoka!
You are just one of the best!
You too kind 😜
such a great video, so in depth and fun to watch
Thanks so much!
Good job! 🤘
Very well explained genius
Wow, thats too much! :D
Awesome- thank you
You're welcome!
Excellent
Thank, this is very useful and great intro!
I am glad you liked it!
Zolti ....love your videos and explanations. I don't know how I missed this one :-) for so long.
Thank you , i appreciate your words! Any specific tutorial you would love to see as next?
Nagyon király!
Very very good theacher
excellent video
Thank you very much!
Top explication one of the best
Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Very entertaining
great intro 😂 and wonderful work ,Keep it up 🔥🔥
Thanks 🔥
omg so funny and good! cheers man
not an average comment from a windsurfer!!!
@@EpicGust lol
Just doing a course with Lisa right now and that was super helpful. Also the intro deserves an damn oscar! :D Keep it up ;)
Hahah thanks bro 😎
🚀 amazing video, thank you for those gems 💎
That‘s awesome! I mean nothing really new, but the way you present is is stunning! I like it soooooooo much!
Knowing there are copyright issues think if you have used one of the James Bond sound tracks…
Anyway, go ahead, teach us!
Thank you so much! I will do my best! have you seen the new kite crash monday series?
For quite awhile I was spending more time walking up the beach than on the water. One thing I realized is that I am traveling downwind the most when I crash and lose my board. As I am trying to get back to the board, both the board and myself are drifting downwind. I am doing better going upwind at mild wind speeds now, I'll have to try sheeting and moving the kite more when I start losing momentum because I'm angled so far upwind.
From that few line that you have written, I got the idea that your upwindbodydrag need some skill update. In lessons, if we doing good, at the bodydrag level - my students have to walk very little. With upwindbodydrag you should be able not lose ground!
This video 🔥💯🚀
...and this instructor 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥
Highly recommend coaching with Zolty! It works 😎👌
EPIC
:D thanks!
Here from film booths video!. Subbed!
Yo from THE Film Booth channel? Welcome here!
@@EpicGust yes! From that one! Have you seen the video? You appear on it, it has pretty good feedback for the channel! If you follow it you are gonna blow up! Content is great!
@@ignajara no i havent seen the video!! where can i find it??
@@EpicGust search for Film Booth's latest video!
@@EpicGust its titled "Warning signs your channel wont grow in 2023"
Soooòo good
Seems like you like this! Come to Brazil we shred together 💪
I still have free online coaching till end of 2021! Go and apply if you want to have a lesson with me for free!
Love it! hahahaha
:))
E😂😂😂😂epic intro
👍😄
are you the brand? 😅
yeah matrix reference is very much in touch with my millennial mid life crisis
When it comes to teaching, in my opinion, the most important is teach not what to do but how and why. The same i tried to do with this video. Scenarios changing but principles can be applied to any scenarios with success. LEt me know how it makes sense to you!?
big sense man! like the big hidden hint at minute 7:34 of how rocketeer upwind always and faster ;) (also without so much technique...)
great video. I am a beginner of kitesurfing. My trouble is to turn kite up to keep it at 45 degree angle after diving the kite first to waterstart. I pointed my board downwind, somehow the kite would not go up no mater how I turned it, it stayed at the edge of the wind window and then dropped into the water due to lack of wind power at the edge of the wind window. please advise.
HEy Seheltontian! Thanks for your question! For me it sounds like can be two cases. Maybe oyur kite control is not yet at the phase where you will nail waterstart easily. I would parcitce the move without the board for a 30 minutes before giving you the board. Can you make a powerdive like this stable? Can you make a double one - like 12-10-11-10 sequence. Can you make a triple? Can you make more power by steering harder ? can you go back to less power by steering slower? making sure you not hanging on the bar. Often we tend to pull right to send the kite back up but we dont realize we pull the left evenly strong. This is a sign of being a bit timid , so that bodydragging exercise just moving the kite will ease this feeling and you feel more confident - so the waterstart will be good too.
An other case can be that after standing up you following the kite with your board so much that this causes the tension disappear. Once you are up you need to edge slightly, and with that you create line tension so the kite listenes to you - and it will turn. Small tip - on the way up when the kite goes , if you lean back more and you let the bar out like 10 cm the kite will go up much quicker.
If all this is already in your pocket, and you are confident that you should be able to do all this - then your bar is out of trim and that causes the trouble- I have a video about line lengths where i explain how to do it and all.
Generally from your level to upwind you dont need more than 1, maybe two lessons. You find me on lake como in case you fance to have a session with us! Hope this helps in some ways mate! Cheers!
@@EpicGust Thank you very much for your advise. I wish I could go to Lake Como to take lesson with you. I am far far away. Based upon your advise, I think that I dived the kite too hard and too low, it was at the edge of the wind window where wind is the weakest, second, I pointed my board to downwind too much so that I lost the line tension. I need more practice to find that balance.
Ok so now i am sure you stand up with way too mich power. Use less agressive dive and roll up. Once up on the board bring the kite up and repeat the move while gradually leaning back more as the speed builds in. Watch my waterstart video - all in there that you need to do step by step!!! And let me know how it worked! You not yet want to ride upwind but focus on creating gentle tension by leaning back!! You will get it in no time!
@@EpicGust I was able to ride for about a hundred yard, stop, and turn around from time to time, but not consistently because of the problems I described above. Also I have more trouble going right than going left. Thanks again. I will report back to you when I make any progress using your advise.
bro that 1:42 clip, too painful to watch, must have been badly hurt....
otherwise good video, prefer not to see that again while relaxing about kitesurfing aha...
Sorry for that, pain is what we remember the most! It is a good teacher :P
Any advice that how stop over edging???
You lean back too much too early. Stay above the board more, don't rely on the kite that much. Using less power helps
@@EpicGust thank you a lot!! Always loose power for no reason and sometimes is because y put a lot of presion on my back foot and I don’t know how to deal with that
@@teamjesus1311 there is always a reason, we might just not yet seeing it. Sounds like you do the right thing, but
1. too late - when the power goes down already. You need to start edging AS the speed builds.
2. you are too slow - go downwind - like a snowboarder goes downhill. a certain speed is necessarry to make this work!
3. maybe you let the bar out? so basically follow the steps in the video and you will be good mate!
Thanks for all the advice 🫶🫶 you should do a video of upwind in light wind
Any plans to visit Spain anytime soon?
not in the near future, but you never know!where are you?
@@EpicGust I'm in western Andalusia (Huelva) but also kite in the Kitesurf Mecca 😉 (Tarifa and surroundings).
@@solange70 i envy you those places are amazing, even for non kiters who just want to enjoy the show! hopefully i will make there one day, right now i dnot see yet when!
@@EpicGust It sure is! We'll be waiting to welcome you here 🤩
Stoka