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I was wondering when the perfect moment is to pop off the water with sent jumps?
approach with speed, steer back the kite aggressively from 10 to 12 or even 1, hold the edge, then pop off the water. but when? where in the window is the kite? as in how far up over your head? if you pop off too early I guess you'd end up not going very high but rather a long way downwind? If too late the kite will overfly and result in a pendulum ass bomb?
I've been getting jumps over 5m, my pb is 8m (according to trace) but I'm rather inconsistent. half a season of jumping under my belt, I'm keen to get over 10m and the seabreeze is back :-)
Don't try and pop at the same time as you sending the kite to 12. In many cases you don't even need to send the kite at all. Just go downwind for a.few seconds to gain speed and then suddenly turn up wind. At that moment is when you send the kite hard to 12 and pop off the water. Think of trying to tension the lines as much as you can before the actual pop. Slack lines are your enemy when boosting. Landing, that's a different story.
I could write a bunch of crap, or just paste Darren's old boosting essay that will probably help you more:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/Newbies-Tips-Tricks/How-to-get-HUGE-AIR
If your punching 8m you have it sorted. Now find the conditions and you will punt 10+
Kiteflobro
Go back a step..
Learn how to load and pop powered, several times in a row with the kite at 45 degrees. Do not move the kite!
See how quickly you can pop the board for max height.
This will teach you board release timing without over or underloading.
Once you get that down, then start using the kite... you will feel the line tension coincide with the board release and understand what timing is.
Its why some kiters can jump quite high in bugger all wind with No ramps..
Wear a thick impact vest n helmet till you got it together..
You've got some great advice. I agree with SaveTheWhales in a way that most of the time board skills are to blame for a lack of boosting height.
I took me a while to understand this, but it's always better to sacrifice a bit of board speed if it leads to better board control and an aggressive pop before take-off. If your aim is to get 10m+ jumps then you really need very strong winds (at least 25 knots) and be used to riding overpowered with excellent board control.
Look closely at every big jump video, the last few frames before take off, how much the board is pointing UPWIND. This is the ''pop'' that will give you the extra vertical height you want. The majority of intermediate riders take off with little to NO pop, with the board not pointing any further upwind than your usual direction of travel.
You can measure the quality of your ''pop'' by how high you're able to jump using the advice from SaveTheWhales, i.e. not sending the kite AT ALL. Also the more water you're able to spray off your board, the more aggressive your edging is and the higher you will go.
I'm not gonna say this is perfect by any means, but this is what my stance looks like in the last second before take-off for a 10m-ish jump in 30 knots, flat water.
Timing is critical and difficult to achieve perfectly and consistently between each jump.
What really helps my students the most is video analysis. At some point you need to watch closely what you're doing, frame-by-frame. At your current level, it's about small details that can make a BIG difference. But until you can visualize and understand what those small details are you may just be repeating the same mistakes over again.
Christian
