This has the effect of further increasing your acceleration while still airborne, so you fly a long way downwind. After take-off, the kite is steered in a looped movement in front of the rider. Kiteloops are jumps that are usually executed with smaller kites when the wind is very strong. This reduction in pressure is the so-called slack. One reason this is important is, so the rider can pass the bar behind their back. SLACKįor unhooked jumps, it is important the kite doesn’t keep pulling too strongly during the jump phase or as soon as the rider has taken off. Freestyle kites really catapult the rider out of the water as soon as you edge the board. Pop is the lift obtained without steering the kite upward.
For unhooked tricks the kite needs to have good pop and slack.
Unhooked jumps are usually done in wakestyle and are often combined with multiple rotations, e.g. Unhooked means you release the chicken loop from the harness before the jump, which is then executed without the help of the kite simply by edging the board. Freestyle kites are mostly used for unhooked jumps or hooked kiteloops.
