How to: Strapless Frontroll
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- The Strapless Frontroll for many people is on of the benchmark kitesurfing tricks, not only because it is a significant step up in difficulty, but because it is a gateway to so many other tricks and rotations. Getting confident with front rolls, and any rotation kiteboarding on a twin tip is step number one for sure. For myself, it took years of work and hundreds of attempts before I had it confidently figured out. I've seen different takes on it as well from different riders as well. Many with a bit of a flatter rotation while others like myself tend to roll a bit more off axis. I think with the flatter, more vertical rotation it allows you to progress easier into multiple rotations, while the more off axis roll style allows you to go bigger while holding a slower rotation. I'm not sure if one or the other is a better way to learn, for myself it certainly was not a choice when learning as I initially favored the more off axis rotation naturally, but regardless for me the front roll is one of my favorite tricks whether I'm kiting in flat water or in the waves.
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Holding my back hand in the bar during the pop helped me somehow to position my body at the takeoff. It also helped me trying to add a grab the nose of the board once I almost had completed the whole 360. Nice tutorial man, I would like to see more of advanced tricks!
Yes I agree, I forget if I mentioned it in the video or not but I usually go into the trick with my back hand only on the bar and swap to my front hand right as I take off. I actually also tried the grab as well but would try to do a tail grab, this helped me bring the tail up high toward my hand which would also help keep it on my feet. The nose grab I find makes it harder actually...not sure how much more advanced I will go since this is already a pretty hard one. Did a video on a 360 shuvit and front-360 shuvit though!
I watched this carefully and started working on it yesterday. I got the take off right, start spinning the board, do a full rotation and land on my feet in the right stance but the board is not under my feet anymore😆. I watched again and I think I lose the board when i'm back to the wind. I need to point my toes down more as you explain around 5:30.
This is what I love about your videos, if you pay attention to the details it's all there.
Thanks again
Great video and super good explanation of the front👌 It's 1 year since I saw this video and it has helped me a lot. Almost landed, I let you know again when I land it👊✌️ Thanks again for this fantastic video and support💪🤟❤️
Thank you! There are Very few videos for intermediate tricks with strapless! I have plateaued for a long time and I did not know what to first after learning straight airs. I am excited to try this out and to have any other trick to work for!
next goal ! thanks for the tips. I'll focus more on my legs while rotating next time I work on this trick. just need some wind...
Let me know how it goes!
I also try during 2 years before landing this trick!!! 0% landed since I had the click during a session. At this moment, I directly landed 50% of my frontloops ! some weeks later, I was counting how much where not landing only :-)
The click for me : start to jump like a normal back side air and (as you advise in your video) put my rear foot as high as possible. First part of the frontloop was the hardest part for me, as soon as I succeed in keeping the surf under my feet at the beginning, the second part was almost 'natural' (I'm doing kiteboad since 20 years so frontloop with a TT is easy for me).
During a long time , I was pushing my rear foot to hard and too horizontaly (like de pop to blind) so make me loosing the surfboard early in this trick. So my advice is to take your time with rotating the surfboard and make sure the wind is pushing on the surfboard before trying to spin it.
Sounds logical. Let give it a try!
what like hover an air with your super light surfboard .. then spin?
I worked on that back foot tip. I just try to lift it up while rotating. Even though I didn't lend a frontroll yet, I have the feeling it's getting better :D !!!
Your lesson was pretty effective to me. Thank you very much! please let me know what size your kite at this video.
Glad it helps! I think all of this was filmed on a 10m both in flat water and the couple clips in the waves as well
good tips, it is the trick i can do least consistently of any . . the conditions are off and i am doomed!
You can do it! Windier days help a lot.....
@@evannetsch thx, if you go high, do you delay the last half of the rotation so keep board pushing into the wind - maybe i am trying to spin too fast - i have landed super fast low ones but so inconsistent. the plan is to do the font roll late 360 shuv (i can do the 360 shuv) - can you and these consistently? thx for the encouragement
I think good advice is when it rotates you put your body as if you were sitting
True, I've never really thought about it like that, but can see that when you are mid way thought the rotation with your back into the wind.
Tks for your explanation. Let me know what board you used
Awesome video! Do you use the same harness for both airs and waveriding? If so, which do you use?
This is killing me! I keep losing the board right when I pop. I seem to rotate fine but without the board. Advice?
It's a hard one. I would say #1, lots of wind. #2 light board #3 practice some small backside 180's and just straight airs where you tweak the board a bit pushing the tail into the wind but still rotation. Keep most of the pressure of the board on your front foot and use your back foot to steer. This trick killed me as well for years!
@@evannetsch Thanks for the advice! Got the first two steps figured out (live in Hood River and ride the new 2022 North Comp). I have been trying the 180 but I tend to over rotate and go all the way around. I just lose the board almost right after take off. Which is so strange to me because I can backroll and do huge airs with the board glued to my feet. Was there any thing you focused on that helped it click? I found that with backrolls when I focused on bending my front knee it clicked. ideas?
hi evan
my problems are always two: the second half of the rotation and the position of the kite. Often I can't do the last 180 degrees maybe because I can't get high enough. But in any case, I almost always land the first 180. do you have any advice? Then the second problem is the kite: often at the end of the rotation I have no power in the kite which is often above the head or even, at the end of the rotation, it is even behind. And then I sink into the water and can't get away effectively. I probably can't handle bar pressure well with my front hand. But I still haven't figured out if it is necessary to maintain a minimum of pressure on the front hand or to leave the kite completely weakened. thanks for your advice.
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