How to get Weight Forward? Beginner Kitefoiling Tips

It can be easy to say to a new kitefoiler - "Get more weight forwards!" - but how do you actually do that? Many find they take their front hand off the bar to make this happen but it makes controlling the kite far hard, can put other parts of your body into the wrong position and result in other issues in the future.
So in this video I'm gonna show you 2 key techniques you can use that will have the same affect and allow you to get lots of weight forward. A vital skills you need for riding both off the foil and when up and foiling.
0:00 Intro
0:16 The correct stance
0:42 The bad stance
1:28 Shoulders towards the nose
2:03 Hip Forwards
2:54 Summary
3:20 Need more help?
If you want to know about about my No 1 Bad Habit for Kitefoiling - taking the front hand off the bar - check out the following video:
• Learning to Kitefoil -...
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[@GaetanoCrisci]

good advice! to all hydrofoil starters I suggest to take 1 or 2 hour lesson of wake foil towed by a dinghy or mastercraft, dividing the water start and first meters on the foil in 2 parts(before without thinking to the kite) will guarantee the progression, this hours are also very useful to find and set the best position of the mast on the board!

[@RfQuintella]

Your other video with the tip on the one hand in the harness/close to the body was a game changer for me when I was learning.

[@progressionsports]

Thanks. Just want to expand on it a little here with a couple of specific tips of how to avoid the one hand off issue.

[@elic18]

thank you so much

[@esnyder77]

Thanks

[@tomaszkaczmarski1346]

Hey for me best technique to control keeping weigt forward\backward is to stay in seating position keeping both legs bended

[@progressionsports]

Thanks Thomas and you are right, weight low is super important - in many ways the most important way to get out of trouble but what we've found is that just telling people to bend their legs and get low doesn't always work! For some people the natural position when they bending their legs and getting low results in weight staying centered or even going more onto the back foot. So its always good for people to think about bending legs, getting low AND pushing knees, hips and shoulders forward towards the nose of the board. The combination of the two gets most people into a good stable position.

[@9XBen]

Rob, really appreciate all your advice. I am doing well going on my natural stance (goofy) but when I try to go regular stance on my kitefoil I have not been able to get going. any tips?

[@progressionsports]

Hey Ben. Sorry I missed you comment - have you had a further success getting riding on your weaker stance?

[@9XBen]

@@progressionsports will not be able to kite for 2 - 3 months. Thanks for the reply!