Learn How To Go UpWind With The Complete Kitesurfing Guide – Mark Shinn

After your first waterstart in kitesurf, you will start to enjoy the awesome felling of riding!
However, you are not a completely autonomous kitesurfer until you know how to ride upwind .  As all beginner, you will need to walk on the beach to come back where you started. This is what will call:

“The walk of Shame”

In this kitesurfing tutorial, Mark Shiin will give you awesome tips on how to go upwind in kitesurf:

• Park your kite in a stable position. Comfortably power up with a good size kite
• Go slow. By slowing down you will force the kite to go to the edge of wind window
• Trim your kite to further reduce your speed and bring your kite to the edge of the wind window
• Keep you kite low
• Good weight distribution (80% of the back leg, 20% of the front leg)
• Twist your hips (Left you hand of your bar)
• Aim for a point upwind of you

For progress rapidly, take Kitesurfing courses until you are able to go Up-Wind

Going Upwind is a crucial step to be an autonomous kitesurfer. It could be difficult to achieve it if you do not have a good position or you do not know what you are doing wrong.

And you? Do you know any tips to go upwind in kitesurfing ?