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but its convincing myself to actually go out and do them.

Yeah but what a buzz when you try something and find it's actually a piece of ....cake. Like 180 switch to toeside. When you're going along heelside and thinking right 'I'm gonna do it now' for the first time ! :D

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Yeah but what a buzz when you try something and find it's actually a piece of ....cake. Like 180 switch to toeside. When you're going along heelside and thinking right 'I'm gonna do it now' for the first time ! :D

Know what you mean Bob. Cheers for giving me the kick up the Ar5e to try it.

 

Need another session on't beach to play some more:D :D

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No worries Boggloid. Bushy, can you just clarify what a 180 slide to blind is for me please ?

When I do a 180 slide to toeside, I pivot around the front foot, pushing the back foot towards the kite ending up with the lines around my side that is facing in direction of travel.

 

Am I to understand that 180 slide to blind is the opposite ?

ie. pivot around back foot, pushing front foot towards kite and ending up with lines around the side facing back from direction of travel ?

 

Always had bother getting my head round that one. :D

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Well i want to nail my 720s (ie not luff the kite) then maybe 1080s would like to put grabs into my 360's..

one footers are also on the menu would like to but keep getting stabbed by the speader bar

blind just seems dangerous and i can relate to flyin scotsman's backward rolls

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Anyone know of a 'kite moves' dictionary for old fogies ?!? I've mastered the 'doddery' (going in a wiggly random pattern both ways across a field) and want a load of moves to practice.

 

Yo doodz !

if your pretty competent why not try the 'faschizzle'

http://www.foils.nl/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=545&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=[url=http://

 

more moves in this section to come, plus theres some more pics in the gallery.

 

get trying!:D

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i dont want to cause conflict but I have always thought of blind to be different to what you've got there Bushy.

 

My idea of blind is -

going left foot forward you rotate left foot towards the kite 180 degrees and ride with your feet facing away from the kite with the depower strap passing round the left hip and pulling from the right.

 

Basically it is like backwards teside.

 

Please correct me and share other views on blind.

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first spins now blind - half u lot claim u can do this and that and dont even friggin know ur left from ur right toe!!!

 

amazing how people dont bull**** on a beach when there about to hit the water -

 

still pmsl about the kids who claim they do full on kite loops on land -

 

sceptic muppet

 

p.s. im only ever sceptic about bull**** postings - i believe what i see

 

blindside is the opposite of toeside but ur riding backwards to the original direction looking away from your direction of travel

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isnt everyone happy today?

 

well descriptions aside, im gonna keep spinning forwards, backwards, landing with arms in front, behind, trailing or leading.

 

dont care what its called this week.

 

still waiting for the frontside/backsdie thing to be resolved, seeing as kiteworld cant even make its mind up.

 

there is more to be said on the blind issue, but now's not the time.

go out and have fun instead!

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