Getting air and making a seamlessly smooth vertical jump is about precision kite and bar control working in harmony with load and pop from your back leg on the heel side edge of the board in the exact moment before you leave the water. When you start the move you will want your kite to be sitting at either the 2 O’clock or 10 O’clock position. For this module of GrayKite’s 101 Big Vertical Air, let’s say you have the kite at 2 O’clock in regards to your direction of travel The movement that will give you real vertical loft is a high arc of the kite from 12:30 to 11:30, back to 12:30 and then to 12 O’clock carried out with precision bar control. Before you start this movement you will want to send your kite from 2 O’clock to 12:30 with reasonable speed. Once you have sent the kite smoothly from 2 to 12.30 you need to make the movement that gives you loft. To repeat, that’s a very rapid and aggressive yet butter smooth 12:30 to 11:30 back to 12:30 arc, then send the kite directly to the 12 O’clock position at the apex of your jump. To get real lift, don’t forget to pull down with the bar just the millisecond before you leave the water. To keep control, always remember that %98.5 of the torque of the kite is in your harness not your arms. Likewise, remember to make the sequence a single movement. It’s an all in one motion with the Kite from 2 to 12:30, then 12:30 to 11:30, back to 12:30 and ultimately fixing the kite for a millisecond at the 12 O’clock position at the Apex of your jump. The 12:30 to 11:30 arc is where you will get your upwards pull
Getting air and making a seamlessly smooth vertical jump is about precision kite and bar control working in harmony with load and pop from your back leg on the heel side edge of the board in the exact moment before you leave the water. When you start the move you will want your kite to
