How to Backroll Hand Drag | 3 Easy Steps / Kiteboarding SA Masterclass

Dive into the world of kiteboarding style with this tutorial on the inverted back roll with a hand drag. Follow three simple steps to elevate your skills, from mastering kite steering to perfecting the back roll technique and adding that stylish hand drag. Learn how to avoid common mistakes and enhance your style by going inverted.
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00:00 Intro
00:29 The essentials
00:45 Suspended flight
02:07 Add the backroll
03:03 Backroll hand drag
04:38 Add the inversion
Filming / cover picture: José Denis-Robichaud
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[@esurfrider7687]

Awesome tutorial! I’ve done the suspended flight a few times by accident, I’ll give it a go on my next session. Thanks Steven! 🤙🏼

[@stevenakkersdijk]

That's a great start! Best of luck!

[@roaldarts7641]

Great stuff, really helping with the progression

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Great to hear! Have fun out there!

[@miukymiu1104]

Thank you. I was always a bit afraid of loops, but after this video i was able to back roll followered by a down loop. and i will continue the steps as you taught til inverted. :D

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Awesome! I can totally imagine that the loop is daunting! When pulled late there is nothing to worry about though, have fun and best of luck!

[@robsonbrandao1463]

Keep the subtitles, please. It's helped me a lot.

[@stevenakkersdijk]

I’m glad to hear that. Will keep them on all my new videos.

[@Witold.c]

Btw thank you for this new film. I missed these steps in your previos tutorials on the backroll hand drag

[@stevenakkersdijk]

That was also my thought, the older one misses some key points. Happy to hear you're enjoying the video.

[@oguzgeben7551]

Nice video bro🤙

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Thanks 🔥

[@marcelbicmoura8038]

Always nice videos! Thanks! Gonna try as first trick of 2024 season in Brazil.

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Awesome! Enjoy the journey

[@b5watersports]

Easy and good explaing as always, thas for that... summer is coming

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Oh yes, get that progression mindset out of the closet, it's kite time 😉

[@supermeiki]

Super

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Thanks 🤙

[@leonvanbergen4077]

🎉🙏🏼 Thanx again!

[@stevenakkersdijk]

You are so welcome!

[@TchevroA]

Is there a dolphin in the water at 3:30 ?!😂

[@stevenakkersdijk]

Shark? 😜 It's super shallow over there and there was a lot of kelp floating around, so I'm 99% certain it's the stem from a piece of sea weed. Well spotted!

[@nathanturner8761]

How is the kite movement different from the dark side?

[@stevenakkersdijk]

It's not 😉 Exactly the same but you have to add a backroll

[@Witold.c]

I have a clickbar and its hard to pull a loop with 1 hand as it gets stuck halfway due to construction. This results sometines with much bigger and stronger loops than desired. Any tips?

[@stevenakkersdijk]

I've noticed that as well on the click bar, not only on slides, but also with loops which is not ideal. I don't know of a way to make this smoother, so you either have to pull the bar down first and then lock it in with the steering, or switch bars. 🙈