I'm a natural-footer.
But I always ride frontside on bearaways.
Lefts or Rights.
It doesn't matter to me.
I like to face the wave.
But for the backside riders, here's a tip to improve your bottom turn and get vert.
See Kelly carving his bottom turn. ^^^
[Imagine he's gripping a kite-bar in his lefthand.]
See how he's reaching back with his righthand.
Really reaching.
Like he's swinging a ten-pin bowling ball back for a strike.
[and imagine he's wearing a harness]
A sliding tow-point on his imaginary harness might be handy too.
Personally, I'd hate a sliding tow-point.
lol.
Thanks for the tips WS, now if you can just teach KS to turn and face the wave more often (a la WS) perhaps he might get somewhere. 
how to be a better backside waverider? unhook, otherwise you're fighting against the kite the whole time
I dont get the whole unhooking thing, unless its a massive wave, because if you un hook the kite is fully powerd, and you cant do tight turns riding back up against the kite wanting to drag you down the line at totally wave wasting pace.
SugarQube - trust us. Try it.
Look at that photo of KS - if he was hooked in he wouldn't be able to be loading himself up for the bottom turn.
Tune your kite so that when you de-power - just before you unkook - it flies fast with little grunt.
That's how I learnt to do it - I now find unhooking so addictive that I prob do it when I shouldn't! But it feels great so i reckon it is worth a try.
1. Learn to un-hkook.
2. Learn to rig the right size kite.
3. Learn proper kite control and positioning.
4. Claim your pro because you can now do semi-ok turn.
5. ????
6. PROFIT!!!
Been waiting for a bite have we Wavey?. Homocentric is not in my dictionary, so you can eat caca on that one.
And yes, I'm calling you a homo as is what your post suggests, unless you are having a go at "KITE SURFERS" as opposed to kiters who like to mix it up a little, (like yourself, bi the sounds of it).
And the fact that you post pics of me in your response, well, not only is that scary, but the fact that you know what I look like terrifies me a little.
I'm touched Slavey, a word for me, that's so nice.
I can gather that you are the full, stalker type of guy. And that your apparent wife has no idea why you sneek out at 2AM, and has given up even bothering to care.
Probably just to check your messagse at the local beachside dunnies
I post these pics to inspire people, to try to bring back what kiting was to be all about.
Unlike yourself Slavey. The last time I saw you kite, you were running down the line (well bunny hopping really) with your kite at 12 and then followed it up being dragged into a construction site after trying to self land.
Mmmm, maybe your slide into consite wasn't an accident after all?. Maybe you just want'd a few beefy men to check you out to make sure you were ok
P:S dickhead, that foto's been up for about a week
Wow this post got tense all of a sudden.
Lets loosen up.
I am not ashamed of homocentricity - if it was biologically possible - i would like to have kids with KS!
Or better yet clone him and I will adopt it!
Very funny psychoanalyis of waveslaves first post LOL
I always though it was called backhand, when going left as a natural footer.
The whole backside description is just weird to me, but so is checking out what's written on the toilet walls at 2am. Prefer to do it during the day that way you can make sure you get the number put in your phone right. Lol lol.
was the original post imagining that some bald surfer dude was holding a kite bar and its ramifications?
To get back on the topic of wave riding I have to agree with a couple of comments made here about always facing the wave going right and left, leaning into your turns and especially un-hooking. Once you un-hook and let go of the bar with the back hand you can pivot your body a lot more and really project out of your bottom turn. It takes a bit of practice at first but once you get it right the drive and power of the turn is very addictive.
