Kite Foil: Heel to Toe Tack (how to start tacking tutorial)

[@ericmnr]

The best video by far to learn.🔥

[@mpv9866]

Thanks for the many excellent lessons! Grateful you show both stances...but would really appreciate and benefit from more goofy-foot examples 🙏

[@MatDGVLL]

I made it thnks to your 360 tutorial 🤝 I found this transition a little bit easier with the complete kiteloop as the timing is longer and no needs to untuggle the lines.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Good to hear you've managed it Mathieu. I'm editing some more challenging tacks for you :-)

[@MatDGVLL]

@@kitesurfcollege I’m ready 😎

[@RG-sg6hx]

When do you pull the bar in? In the video it looks like you pull the bar in for lift at the same time you thrust your hips to the toeside rail? So the order of doing things is 1. kite over 12 oclock 2. depower 3. Carve upwind 4. Thrust hips over toesdie rail and at the same time pull the bar in. Is this correct?

[@RG-sg6hx]

I am at step 4 - foil to taxi tack, however as I carve around and dive the kite sometimes the front of the board is going under the water, is this because I don't have enough back foot pressure to keep the front of the board off the water when I carve?

[@ojyk]

Excellent advice. Thanks.

[@chksix6]

thank you

[@brainloading5543]

Yep

[@mjolnirasgard3129]

Would you say it’s easier to start with the 360 then tack to toeside? Or the other way around?

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hi. The heel to toe tack easier. The foiling 360 is effectively a heelside-to-toeside tack which blends seamlessly into a toeside to heelside downloop transition/jibe. So if you become confident with tacks and DL transitions then you should be able to move on to the 360 after.

[@Max2air]

Great video! Is this tack easier than "original" tack with stepping over?

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hi Max. When you say original tack I guess you mean a tack starting in heelside with a footswap mid tack so you exit still in heelside. That's a tack commonly used in kite foil racing (in order to keep a powerfup heelside stance as much as possible), I would even call that a race tack or tack footswap rather than just a tack. The tack in this tutorial is the simplest and most fundamental, it's much easier than a racing tack or toe to heel tack.

[@Max2air]

@@kitesurfcollege Thank you for your explanation. Now it's clear to me.

[@jurijblazin7835]

In what cases back strap is in use? During freeride? Currently I have only front straps on my board? Do you suggest to mount back strap as well?

[@christianzink7633]

I use it only for jumping. Maybe racing is another use case.

[@snowbell01]

Wonder if this could be considered easier than doing a jibe? I'm learning to foil, can comfortably foil but do stop to change directions but learning how to turn and go toeside to keep going, and have watched your jibe video, having a lot of issues keeping line tension and riding past the kite it seems, but at least the upwind tack would keep the line tension, a lot of kiting is timing, will give it a try too

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hello Jason, I'd say the kite foil tack is much more difficult than the jibe, and I often see kite foilers who can jibe but not tack. You could always be the exception of course. It shouldn't take you long to get over the issue of loosing line tension. Let us know how it goes.

[@Wksfr]

You might find on one side you are stronger at tacking and on the other side you are better a jibing. Which is what happened to me and as it’s natural to do what you already know you end up accentuating that difference. Now forcing myself to improve on my shit sides, years after doing my first foil turns..

[@andreaspoke8273]

Thank You. I try it about 20 times but always only shoot the board alone upwind and rotate after hanging alone on the kite. I see your front toes going up. I don’t have Straps. Are straps needed to learn this?

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hi Andreas, you definitely don't need straps for this tack, it makes almost no difference. Straps do help with the roll tack and a few other tricks. What do you think is stopping you, are you being lifting by the kite?

[@andreaspoke8273]

Kite-Surf-College Tutorials and Tricks I never see myself so it’s hard to describe. I not think I get lifted. I steer the kite back up to 12, lean back, turn upwind. Than I feel the kite behind me and I am not able to turn the board more. So board go alone and I turn around fully on the way falling down into the water. Always same no time to do something different. Maybe I must to wait for more wind and practice with other board first. Thank you for response.

[@tomasgulas]

@@andreaspoke8273 I also tried this many times and have the same problems. I gave up... I'll try again though

[@kitesurfcollege]

Don't give up, Tomas. Could you describe what happened in your attempts? If it's any consolation it took me hundreds of attempts to crack it, and thousands to improve and refine it.

[@tomasgulas]

@@kitesurfcollege it is mainly that I can't seem to get my kite in a position where I could move body around the lines. I seem to alway ride little upwind and therefore leaning back. When I tried this I was on old slow foil, not being able to get enough speed. I have new one so I'll try it. I have alway wanted to be able to ride toe sided, then tack to heel sided. So that is what I'll attempt. Problem is when I only have one or two time per week chance to go kiting, I want to enjoy rather than struggle. I will for sure try this when winging, since no lines are in the way.

[@hugokenyon2961]

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