I’m beginning to collect kite videos and written tutorials that answer common questions:
Beginner Questions:
- Types of Kites
- Types of Boards
- Waist vs. Seat Harness?
- Wetsuit vs. Drysuit
- Reddit’s Kiteboarding Beginner’s FAQ – this has some great information and great practice exercises for those wanting to fly training kites.
- A good overview on bar pressure.
- An Overview of Kite Lines
- Generic Supplier of Kite Lines – Q-PowerLine
- How do I remove knots in my kite lines?
- Board leash or no board leash?
- Who Has Right of Way?
- Waxing a Directional Surfboard for Kiting
Beginner Techniques:
- Two-Line Xeon Naish Trainer Kite
- Basic Concepts – 1
- Basic Concepts – 2
- Intro to Four-Line Kiting = 2 Meter Ocean Rodeo Rise
- Assisted Launch
- Self Rescue – 1
- Self Rescue – 2
- Self Rescue – 3
- Difficult Self Rescue onto Rock Breakwater
- Almost Perfect Deep Water Self Rescue – but, tell me what step was left out
- Body Dragging -1
- Boddy Draggin – 2
- Body Dragging with Board
- Relaunch Kite from Water
- Body Dragging Upwind
- Find/Return to a Lost Board
- Power Stroke
- Launch and Ride Downwind
- Stop Turn – 1
- Faster Stop Turn – 2
- J Turn – 1
- J Turn – 2
- Ride Upwind
- Land a kite by yourself
- Kiteboarding and Kitesurfing Right-of-Way Rules
Solid Intermediate:
(you can stay upwind, smooth transitions, and small landed pops)
- Solo Self Launch from an Anchor Point
- Solo Drift Launch from Boat or Water Near Shore
- Solo Reverse Launch
- Solo Hot Launch
- Riding Toe Side
- Self Landing Techniques
Snow Kiting:
Advanced Techniques:
- Wave Riding
- Solid Explaination of How to Jump High and Safely Land
- Lewis Crathern’s 10 Essentials to Jumping Higher
- How to Kite Loop
- How to Kite Loop 1
- How to Kite Loop 2
- Un-Hooked Tips from Ben Wilson
- Getting Out Over the Whitewater Waves
- Surviving a Wipe Out in Waves
- YouTube List of Ben Wilson Instructional Videos
- Ben Wilson Guide on directional kite surfboards
Other Interesting Videos:
