Only been kiting one season but confidents is high any tips on starting to unhook and basic unhooked menovours?
The raley is the best trick to learn proper technique and how to set an edge for most other unhooked tricks, so I would probably start there. Get them dialed in well and then move on to back and front rolls.
My biggest tip is learn how to set a deep consistent edge and commit properly to the trick. Keep your hands in the centre of the bar, bear off the wind slightly to unhook, then set a progressive edge. Don't edge too hard straight away, you want to progressively dig your rail harder in the water. When you feel the kite wanting to rip you off the water throw your legs behind you and let it pull you out.
Obviously this takes some practice but the first part is the hardest, once you get started you want wont to stop.
The raley is the best trick to learn proper technique and how to set an edge for most other unhooked tricks, so I would probably start there. Get them dialed in well and then move on to back and front rolls.
My biggest tip is learn how to set a deep consistent edge and commit properly to the trick. Keep your hands in the centre of the bar, bear off the wind slightly to unhook, then set a progressive edge. Don't edge too hard straight away, you want to progressively dig your rail harder in the water. When you feel the kite wanting to rip you off the water throw your legs behind you and let it pull you out.
Obviously this takes some practice but the first part is the hardest, once you get started you want wont to stop.
Also remember to rig up your leash properly... I forgot I had mine on the 100% depower line so... when I let go of the kite had to chase the bar up pretty quickly to stop Mr. Tangles
Double check ur safety leash, throw a bit of depower of ur kite with some board speed and room down wind, unhook and edge for happy days
You should to be getting down a hooked in backroll first before progressing to unhooked.
First depower the kite and attach to suicide. Practice bearing off and unhooking and riding along then hooking back in a few times.
A raley needs speed and load hard on the edge with kite at 45. I recommend for your first unhooked move try the backroll. Moderate speed, kite high and scoop upwind (rather than load and pop) into the backroll. It's easier to follow the momentum and doesn't need as much commitment as a raley.
Also try front rolls then raley. These 3 moves are the basis for more advanced unhooked moves.
Hi mate, I am pretty much in the same boat as you. Tried to unhook a couple of times and do the raley, but didn't come out good. So what I did, I practiced some sort of raley hooked. Practiced that a couple of sessions and got to this:
Then got the backroll and now my next session will be trying to unhook again.
Yer I'm in that boat to iv got double backrolls hocked in fine and front rolls fine hooked in raileys or what u would call that basic transitions and some toe side air
Might try the unhooked back first thanks for all the help guys
Is a hooked in raley still called a gayley?
They just dont really work the same.
Cruising around unhooked for little periods also help learn about it. Getting the depower/trim right etc.
You can't do a proper raley hooked in. And in my opinion it will only hinder you learning to do a proper one. As you take off hooked in and extend into the gayley you will almost certainly sheet out, making it an entirely different feeling. Not to mention you will be loading from your harness not your arms.
A proper raley isn't that hard to try with your kite up high. Just man up and give it a shot, what's the worst that will happen? It's just water.
I am at about the same level as the original post. Can land the back roll hooked in every time but up hooked get scary. re the pop right foot forward left foot back I pop really well left forward right back it's like I need a disabled parking tick on my car. I really need reworking this...
Hi Jmart
Like Rowdy says the raley is where to start.
This is something I wrote last year in reply to a similar topic.
Maybe it will help if I regurgitate it again. Sorry to be boring if you already read it.
"Getting good pop is not just about the release, but the set up is equally important.
For the first few times start out on a kite that is not overpowered, but is just comfortable, towards the bottom of its wind range, but you dont want to have to work it.
Sail at the fastest point of sailing, just off the wind with the kite at 45 deg, (no higher or you cant edge so hard and it will feel dangly). Have both hands in the center of the bar next to the chicken loop.
Now beer off slightly more, to relieve the line tension and unhook. This also drops the kite further back into the window and gives you something to pull against. As soon as you've unhooked carve hard into wind and pull hard against the kite. As you do this the kite will also accelerate towards the edge of the window generating even more pull, push hard with both legs to spring off the water, letting you legs swing out behind you as you leave the water.
Look down at the water to spot your landing, and get your legs back under you to land going downwind towards the kite. The kite lines should be slack as you land, and you can hook back in again.
So what is important here is to get the kite to drift further into the window as you beer down wind to unhook and then pull hard against it to accelerate it back towards the edge again.
If it feels like you are dangling you are steering the kite up, try to pull more with your front hand to stop the kite moving. It should feel like you are weightless for a fraction of a second.
Once you have done this you are well on your way to unkooked unhooked kitesurfing."
Hope this helps
Juicerider