Toms Kiteboarding Tips

6 huge tips to help you get the most from your kiteboarding lessons and truly learn Kiteboarding faster 

SLOW DOWN. Yes that's it, just do it slowly! Bring your kite to 12, staying low with knees bent as if you were going to sit down, then before your bum (ass for those Americans!) would normally touch the water, you dive the kite in the new direction with weight on your new back foot. That's it! 

Troubleshooting: 

If you're sinking  - keep your bar in to keep the power, and dive your kite a little sooner. 

If you're being pulled off your board or into the air - slow down! 

If you're loosing speed after transitioning - go downwind a little first before edging back upwind. And dive the kite again if needed. 

Happy transitioning!!!!! 

Katie and Tom 

The first episode from Katie and Tom as Katoms Kiteboarding Tips! 

Todays episode is a podcast all about Kiteboarding in Turks and Caicos, specifically at the main spot of Long Bay as a beginner. 

We discuss why TCI (Turks and Caicos) is worth the money. What to expect from your lessons and how to get the best out of them, what to bring, where to stay, when to come and as much info as we can give to help anyone thinking of coming to get the best out of their trip. 

Board recovery

Board recovery is also known as upwind body dragging. It is absolutely essential in Kitesurfing to be able recover your board in deep water.

Riding toeside is so much fun. You will feel like you are surfing plus it's just so useful for spicing up so many other moves as well as making riding a surfboard so much easier.

Landing a regular jump to toeside or a backroll or frontroll to toeside completely changes the move and will help you to make those super smooth silky transitions you see more experienced/advanced riders doing.

Being able to land a trick to toeside can also help you to save yourself when you over or under rotate or even if you make a mistake with your kite position.

Not only does riding toeside feel a bit like surfing but its great for riding downwind too. This is extremely useful and arguably an essential skill for when you are on a downwinder (riding from point A to point B and getting a ride back to where you started instead of kiting back to where you started)

The best part of learning to ride toeside in my opinion is that when you are confident to ride toeside as well as perform carving transition from and into toeside then you will be able to ride waves..

Toeside really does feel amazing and you want to learn it immediately, as soon as you can ride upwind plus it will even help you to nail your first transitions like a total bad ass too.

Jumping when Kiteboarding is the essence of Kiteboarding. We all love it. Learn how to do it safely. Build up slowly. Practice in water above your knees, learn to pop first with loads of space downwind, bring your kite back to 12 as you leave the water, keep your bar in, dive your kite hard in front of you as you come in to land, bend your legs to adsorb the landing. Follow Toms Kiteboarding tips on facebook and instagram for daily easy to remember tips :)

Learn how to front roll. Its fun! It leads on to so many other cool moves and it feels amazing :)

 The Backroll is not as difficult as you think. Anyone and I mean anyone who can ride upwind can backroll.