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Athea

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Instructor sharing tricks, trips and stoke
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💃 @mysticboarding
👩🏼‍💼Teaching w/@escapeecoadventures
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2027 dates out. No joke spots are filling fast, this is our best progression tour and people are rebooking for next year already.

Dm for more info!

Looking forward to next year!!

#kitetour #kitesrilanka #kiteprogression #kiteinstructor #kitecamp by @athea_kites

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19 days ago

Here’s a fun way to direction change! Once you learn it I can guarantee you won’t go back to a regular transition😋

Common mistakes:
👹 Going in with too much speed in the direction of travel. If you do not hover on the spot, then you will be travelling one way while your kite dives the other way and, like a pendulum, you will sink upon landing. So, really focus on coming to a halt.

👹 Not diving the kite hard enough for the landing in the new direction. Most likely, this means you won’t ride out, but rather sink and then ride. Try diving the kite sooner or harder if this happening.

👹 Not pointing the foot downwind for landing. It should feel like a smooth landing. If you feel like your skidding in the new direction, look at the board.

Apart from these common mistakes it’s a very achievable move.

Always happy to hear other tips in the comments😁

#kiting #kiteboarding #kitesurfing #kitechick #kitesurf #jump #training #tutorial #kitetrick #kitetutorial #backroll #backrolltransition #kitetour #kitecore #ridecore taken in Sri Lanka by @athea_kites

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a year ago

A little unexpected lift at the end😝

This was such a fun afternoon. Light wind, not enough to kite, but we ventured to the dunes to give the up draft a go, and it provided!

Note: we are aware this is dangerous, ‘don’t try this at home…’🤫

#kiting #kiteboarding #kitesurfing #kitechick #jump #updraft #kite #dunes #sanddunes by @athea_kites

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One year into kiting I was sending boogies- learning through crashing mostly. Four years later I’m scared of sending it despite being a much better kiter.

Here’s why➡️

Yes I can land baby boogies 1-2m high but gaining height… everything falls apart.

I’d take at least one bad crash each session, but kept pushing, thinking one day I’ll get it. Then a (boogie unrelated) injury occurred and I had to be much more careful. No hard crashes allowed anymore.

So I stripped back the move ➡️ what was the fail point? The height.

Why pull the loop when I’d never even tried doing a high inverted front roll?!

I was so shocked, for someone who breaks everything down into smaller chunks, I had missed this?!

I did this until I was bored of it, gained time to ‘think’ and relax during the trick, and very soon after the loop became easy! Still scary but landing 90%

Precision always pays off in the long run💪

And always question “what is the weak link?” And “how can I break it down?”

Practicing on the stable 11m Core Pace
Wearing Mystic Haven wetsuit
#kitesurfing #kitetrick #kiteinstructor #ridecore #mysticboarding by @athea_kites

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Can’t believe how fast she go it!

Every bit of advice she took on board. Naturally, when one thing was applied another would give way, but each attempt was a correction to the last.
Within 6 minutes she put all the elements together and was landing front rolls consistently!

Good depiction of the most common mistakes:
👀not popping before take off (board sticks to the water)
👀pulling the back hand
👀not throwing and looking around the shoulder

And also an excellent display of the corrections!
✨ applying front hand pressure
✨pop and roll motion
✨aggressively throwing your body around the bar

Love this spot for teaching 📍Sri Lanka

Join our progression tour next year😋 comment ‘Sri Lanka’ and I’ll drop you a dm.

#kitesurfing #kitecoach #frontroll #ridecore mysticboarding by @athea_kites

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7 days ago

You will benefit from this more than you realise! I teach ALL my students this on downwinders (loop optional) - this is a fantastic way to become flowy and fluid with your riding and a great way to get more toe side practice in.

You’ll discover how to move the kite quickly across the wind window, when to go downwind with the board and when you need to go upwind for line tension. It’s FULL of fundamental skills, not to mention FUN!

Common mistakes:
✨If you feel yourself sinking in the toe side position, try pointing upwind more. Most likely you will going too far downwind following the kite and loosing line tension OR you have to work more on your toe side😋

And don’t forget to practice both side. It’ll be hard not to because your back leg will eventually get sore ;))

#Sturns #kitetutorial #kiteinstructor #ridecore #mysticboarding by @athea_kites

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10 days ago

Sound on🔊

If you haven’t done this before make it your top priority.

(With assumed knowledge that you know how to loop when stationary and understand the foundations of looping)

Becoming comfortable with looping while riding will open Pandora’s box of kite fluidity and creativity. I urge all of my students (up to looping ability) to give it a go.

This video is a new and improved version and is a prerequisite in a two part series - the next one - POV S-Turns!

TOP TIPS
✨Learn in lighter winds 12-18 knots.
✨Learn underpowered so the loop doesn’t yank you too much.
✨Commit to the loop, crank the bar hard, and wait for the leading edge to face up before letting the bar out.
✨Surrender to the downwind, don’t fight the power of the loop, just point the front foot downwind and go with it.
✨Looping with the kite starting at 45 degrees will be less powerful, so start there.
✨Maybe don’t ‘learn’ it on a downwinder but definitely learn to master it on one 😋

#kitetutorial #learnlooping #kiteinstructor #ridecore #mysticboarding by @athea_kites

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11 days ago

Have you seen a girl do this? I think I know why➡️

Let me tell you, progress was a process- read below to see how I got there.

Here’s my cheeky entry into @actionsportswa Giveaway to win a new Core 8m XRX in collaboration with @corekites @corekitesaustralia @corefoils

Single flips were mastered so I thought why not the double? Can’t be THAT hard🫢

Guess what! It takes A LOT of strength. I soon realised I had to build upper body strength at the gym to build muscle and avoid injuring my shoulder in the process.

So I spent weeks building strength, getting pretty jacked I must say, in order to keep practicing on land until mastery.

But guess what, that doesn’t mean it transfers to the water! No, of course not. I soon realised I now couldn’t use the power from my legs and body to help propel the board. So back to working out…

Between sessions, I had to intermittently take days off because my arm was so tired from trying over and over on the water.

After a couple weeks, I felt SO close but frustrated at why I could catch it 100% on land but could NOT on a kite.
And finally it happened, I landed it! Not once, but THREE times in one session. And just like that I had done it, like it was nothing…💅😶‍🌫️

NOT! Ahha

As a women I feel like I had to work extra hard to get this one💪

#kiting #coreactionsportswa #doubleflip by @athea_kites

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Why have I never seen this before?

This was our first time trying this type of transition turn

Getting creative with it😝 by @athea_kites

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15 days ago

Important tips below! ⬇️

This is an advanced trick with assumed knowledge on backrolls and looping.

If you want to learn these two, find my previous tutorials on looping, how to use looping in your riding and backrolls in my reposts.

But despite how intimidating this move looks, it’s fairly easy to learn! But make sure your downwind is clear….

Learning TIPS!!
⭐️ Try this underpowered. It’s possible with any kite size and sometimes bigger kites can feel easier (so long as it’s a low loop)

⭐️ Having a looping friendly kite (not 5 strut or if feels like it pulls like a truck- this video was done with a Core Pace Pro 2, any Pace will do)

⭐️Always start low to the water and build confidence in height

⭐️Loop later and gradually loop earlier

⭐️Try to replicate a backroll transition takeoff by carving hard and hovering

Common mistakes:
⚠️ Over rotating - under rotate because the loop finishes the rotation for you
⚠️ Large aggressive loops - loop HARD by pulling in with one hand and pushing out with the other.
⚠️ Crashing the kite - don’t bail on the loop, commit!

Variations:
🤩 Chuck a grab in there
🤩 Invert the backroll
🤩 Land with a backhand downloop

Happy kiting!

#kitesurf #kitetutorial #backrollkiteloop #ridecore #mysticboarding by @athea_kites

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20 days ago

This one felt good.

Having an injured neck has forced me to stick with height, boardoffs, and creativity rather than delving into big air and loops.

Funnily, part of my rehab is building arms and shoulders, so board spins (and flips) have been part of my off-water training for some weeks now. And it payed off.

Silver linings🤗

Also probably wouldn’t have been able to do it without the lift and float from the Core Pace Pro 2.

#kitesurfing #boardoff #boardspin #ridecore #mysticboarding by @athea_kites

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