Kiting progress on a wakeboard?

[jowall]

I'll be on vacation on a lake back East and don't think there's enough wind to take my kites.

I'm a beginner kiter who is now riding upwind and I hope to start learning some jumps, etc soon. Since I'll be on a wakeboard for a week, does anyone have suggestions of wake moves that will crossover to kiting when I get back? Sending it is obviously out and rolls seem like a good idea, but I haven't wakeboarded for years and don't pay much attention to the sport. I though someone might have some input.

-john

[Progression]

Tons of stuff you can learn on wakeboard that translates great to kiting:
1. Slide from heel side to toe side, both directions
2. Ollie from heel to toe side, both directions
3. Olie from Toe to heel, both directions
4. Jumps where you grab all parts of the board
5. Front rolls, both ways
6. Back rolls, both ways
7. Railey
8. S-Bends - railey w/forward roll
9. Tantrums - forward roll w/1 hand off the bar
10. All the above from toe side
11. Ride blind
12. Surface handle passes

Let us know how it goes.

Good wind + waves, Zeev.

[David (guest)]

How bizarre!

John's post reads like it was ripped right out of my head. I've been thinking about this for the last couple of days. _I'll_ be vacationing on a lake back East, and will be on a wakeboard. _I'm_ a beginner (kiteboarder) who hasn't paid much attention to wakeboards in the past (call me old-fashioned, but I have way more fun on trick skis!) And I was wondering what I could do on a wakeboard that would translate well to kiteboarding!

Gee, maybe John and I should compare notes after our respective vacations! See you on The Lake (maybe), John! :)

One thing I was wondering about doing on a wakeboard, which would be most helpful kiteboarding: can I, say, go out of the wake, let's say the right side, edging back, then, at the end of that ust mash down on the leading (right) foot and spin the board about 45 degrees to come back? Or would the fins catch and give me another face plant. My big issues with the wakeboard to date has been the faceplants when attempting tricks. One thing's for sure: I'm gonna take those super-high-wrap bindings my friend put on off, and ask for the original toe straps. I don't need to be that "intimate" with the board.

TIA

cheers,

David

[Guest]

Face plants happen is both sports, but I do not recommend it. :)

[bhsu24]

I have been wakebaording for several years and i have beeen kiting for almost two years now and i feel that i am progressing faster in both kiting and wakebaording each in its own has givin me more practice. when there is no wind i go out wakebaording and when there is wind i kite. The key is to just get out in the water either behind a kite or a boat and practice. there will be wipeouts thats just the name of the game thats what makes us better.

bryan

[jowall]

Thanks Zeev for the list of moves. Here's how things played out... This trip was to Lake Gaston on the VA/NC border. Clean warm water! The first step was to convince my uncle to slow the boat down. He wanted to run about 25-30 mph. 18-20 was much better.

I made it through your list down to #4. I also did #12 if that is a surface 360. In learning the sliding 360, I guess I rode toeside blind a few times before I learned to complete the rotation.

The first day was tough as there's a ton of muscles for wake boarding that you don't use kiting.

The other difference are the wipeouts. In kiting, my beginner experience has been all about kite control and staying up. It's easy to get going after a wake boarding fall, so there are many more falls. The falls seemed to compact the vertebrae in my neck.

I'll probably try to get some wake experience when the winds die down.

The best news is my wife got up for the first time on a board. Little does she know that now she's destined to take kiting lessons ;-)

-john

[jjm]

The best news is my wife got up for the first time on a board. Little does she know that now she's destined to take kiting lessons ;-)
-john

Let me know how that goes, my wife is on the same program but doesn't know it yet :) Trying to convince her to get in the Dirty brackish warm water of Bel Marin Keys might be a challange though. I'll make sure not to tell her about the sturgeon!