How to Control Your Kite When Landboarding

Video Transcript

"I’m Francisco Escudero here in Miami, Florida. If you want to learn more about kite land boarding, go to www.skybanditz.com. Now we’re continuing the segment on how to control your small trainer kite to get some power so we can go kite land boarding. This is the control bar right here. It has a red tab on it, and that would usually mean left. Right now I have it on right hand side, so that already tells me I’m going to flip over my bar because this is the way I want to have it. I want to have the red on the left and the green on the right. That’s what the industry standards with most kite boarding and kite flying equipment comes color coordinated like that. It’s basically just a movement kind of like inwards and outwards like this, like if you’re doing little punches. Sometimes people think that it’s like steering a car. Steering a car would be kind of like this way. This is not going to give you the proper steering. It’s going to be up here and it’s going to be in and out, arms very relaxed. Later on, you’re going to have some bar setups that are going to have the hook here to hook into here. "