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I dont think kiters actually jump, its not really a jump when you're dangling up there, shouldnt even be called a jump. it should be called something else like a float, or a feather trick, or "a petal in the wind", or "false levitate", or "mini ballooning".
I see ya point tho waveslave, a move isnt as cool when everyone can do it.
Hold the jump a little longer and wait till you hit the apex of the jump (max height) before looking over your shoulder to spot your landing.
Could also be a case that you are not coming round far enough (through the wind) This would explain the steep entry and/or the ear bashing
ok try 4 next time, when i land one i'll let you know....don't hold yer breath.....
revhead - lmao at petal in the wind, BUT i've seen a few of the L plater teabags at pinaroo come down like a sack of spuds off a 10 storey 
anyway, in my short kiting career i've learnt that in order to know whether or not i'm a cool kiter i need to buy a watch. apparently appart from jumps not being cool, it is also not cool to have my kite in the air after 9 or before 3, and 12o'clock is the ultimate in uncoolness, so i'm only kiting late in the day from now on.
yer not original enough to make up there own names for trick either, there all skateboard grabs, then stolen by snowboarding, then wakeboarding and now claimed by kiteboarders..
I looove doing big floaty jumps!! When you stall and drift backwards the feeling is sooo coool.
Firetruck what anyone else thinks
Love doing backy's was landing em last season but no luck this season...must be age
Kiting "jumps" ,termed loosely ,look gay.Go paragliding if you want air with a kite you puss's.[}:)]
They both saw picture of windsurfer in Gold Coast Bulletin taken over new year period while on (wet, miserable) holidays there. "Wow, I didn't know windsurfers could jump so high" were their comments, or something to that effect. I didn't see the photo myself, I live in a no-news bubble on purpose.
Windsurfing Double forwards. Double kite loops 
LEACH Get off the beach and into the surf DOOD where the real action is.
Yes to the layman, the kite jumps on the inside canbe impressive,
So can the whole gybing AREA and wave riding flick out zone being taken up with 50meters of tampon string.
Stay down wind and do what you want
Big tucked up floaters are the go whilst (flying right over kite strings and kites, one handed with flick knife extended ,slashing the strings to watching the kite spin spin spin and explode as the bladder spills the hot air of the rider all over the ocean.
I was at the supermarket last night, it was blowing about twelve knots in the carpark and there were a couple of supermarket bags doing 'jumps' all over the place! I even saw one doing loops - proper end over end ones too...
They were doing a whole bunch of different rotations and spins that I'm sure have names, but not being a regular bag watcher I had problems telling one sort of spin from another.. I think it had something to do with the handles?
There were a bunch of other bags lined up against a fence, and one stuck up in a tree.
Applying kite-logic to the situation, I concluded that supermarket bags are cool, and that the ones I saw must have been 'jumping' for at least an hour to have that many tricks mastered!
555 you are now 007 ..... Great read
Must get some good waves over there ...........
If you want massive air..go paraglideing.If you want to spin around and hang off a string...tie one onto the hills hoist.If you want to wake board..go fkn wake boarding
..But for fks sake i wish they would stay outa the break
An hero Aussie boy named Robbie Maddison holds the world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle. On December 31st he jumped his CR500 motorcross bike a distance of 98 meters.
Robbie did not float, loft, boost or levitate his bike over that distance, he jumped it.
He drank a great big can of HTFU and used a combination of speed and a ramp to achieve one big jump
what do they call it when the kiter goes up in the air, and then tucks his legs in, the straightens them out again and again really fast? Have i just invented a new kite-move? How cool is the move when they belly slide along the beach, I love seeing that. Was kiting actually invented by the makers of old time chinese kung fu movies?
