Andy Gratwick

The Kiteboarding Manual (eBook, PDF)

The essential guide for beginners and improvers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Kiteboarding Manual is your complete practical guide to this fast-paced and addictive sport. It'll get you started with the kite and take you throughto flying it on the water, jumping, tricks and racing, as well as covering weather, wind and tide theory and helping you select the right kit. Sections cover:

The origins of kiteboarding and massive rise in popularity in recent years
How a kite flies and basic weather principles as well as background on tides and currents, waves, and wind vs tide
Getting started on land - LEIrigging, assembly, launching and flying, body-dragging
How to master your board skills -turns, stopping, rules of the road
Going upwind, riding toeside, turning and transition
Moving fast and riding waves; learning to tack and gybe
Details on all kiteboarding disciplines from speed kiting to kiting on land
How to improve your performance and enjoy incredible airtime!

Packed with step-by step photo sequences explaining the basic moves all the way through to more advanced tricks, and including information on competitions and becoming an instructor, this is a book no kiter will want to be without.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408192054
• Artikelnr.: 42371143

Autorenporträt

Andy Gratwick is Head of Training for British Kitesports Association and the first ISAF technical expert for kiteboarding in the world. He has written the training and exam syllabus for national kiteboarding authorities in the UK and Australia, as well as working with ISAF on the standards and rules for the 2024 Olympics. He is also an RYA Yachtmaster; trainer and examiner for kitesurfing, snow and land kiting; and BSUPA Head Coach for SUP in the UK. Easyriders, his kiteboarding and stand up paddle school, is based in Sandbanks, Poole.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1 - NEED TO KNOW
Chapter 1: The sport: A brief history
The early years
Kites on snow
The sport moves to water
Kiteboarding goes mainstream
Where it is now
Looking forwards
Chapter 2: Air
How a kite flies
Drag
Lift
Angle of attack
Steering
Where a kite flies (the wind window)
The 'static' wind window
The 'dynamic' wind window
Where wind comes from
Low-pressure systems
High-pressure systems
Clouds
Storms, hurricanes and cyclones
Sea and land breezes
Trade winds
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Airflow and local wind phenomena
Laminar flow
Turbulent flow
Chapter 3: Water
Tides and currents
Formulation
Spring and neap tides
Rips and currents
Effects of tides on kiteboarders
Water states: making waves
The seas, oceans, rivers and lakes
Time on the water
Part 2 - THE JOURNEY: BECOMING A KITEBOARDER
Chapter 4: Getting started
Start with yourself - health, safety and attitude
Common questions
Chapter 5: The kite
Basic powerkite-flying on land
LEI Rigging and assembly
Pre-flight checks
Launching an LEI kite
Landing an LEI kite
Body-dragging
Power: downwind figure-of-eight body-dragging
Direction: crosswind body-dragging
Retrieving the board: body-dragging with/back to
the board
Balance (stability and control): the balance-drag
Relaunching a kite
Hybrid 4-line kites
5-line kites: 5th-line relaunch
Chapter 6: The board
How the board works
Getting the board on
Standing up
The first runs
Stopping and basic turning
Stopping
Turning (the sitting gybe)
Avoiding accidents
Rules of the Road
Common-sense rules
Structured rules
Communications and signals
Launching
Abort launch/do not launch
Landing
Eject/release the safety
Help/distress
Go right /go left
Kite to 12 o'clock
Come to me
Chapter 7: Safety, breakages and self-rescues
Site and risk assessment
Equipment failure
Safety pack-down
Sailing in
Deep-water pack-up
Packing up in emergencies
Maintenance and repairs
Repairing a kite tube
Repairing a canopy tear
Repairing a board
Chapter 8: Advanced techniques
Self-launching and landing
Self-launching a hybrid and C-kite
Self-launching a bow kite
Self-landing
Dual launching and landing
The beach-start
Setting it up
The go
Coming in with style
Setting it up
The go
Kiting with boat support
Chapter 9: Points of sailing
Beam reach
Broad reach
Dead run
Close-hauled/close reach
Apparent wind
Chapter 10: Going upwind
The kite
The board
The rider
Riding toeside
Turning and transitions
Heel-to-toeside carve
Toe-to-heelside carve
Jump transition
The BLT
Handplant BLT
Front loop transition
Backloop-kiteloop transition
Chapter 11: Going fast, high and loose
The chop hop
Sending the kite
The take-off
Airtime
The landing
Looping yourself
Looping the kite
Gybing
Tacking
The bottom turn and waveriding
Chapter 12: Equipment
Manufacturing
Knowing what's right for you
Types of kite
Frame kites
Foil kites
LEI/tube kites
Aspect ratio
C-kites
Bow kites
Hybrid kites
Boards
Twin-tips
Directionals
Bars
Lines
Chicken loop
Trimline
Safety leash
4- and 5-line bars
Software
Wetsuits
Rash vests
Harnesses
Helmets
Buoyancy aids and impact jackets
Buying your own equipment
Transporting kit
Part 3: THE FUTURE
Chapter 13: Kiteboarding disciplines
Kiting on land
Kite buggying
Mountain boarding
Snowkiting
Speed kiting on land
Freestyle
Wakestyle
Waveriding
Racing
Border cross
Long-distance racing
Hydrofoiling
Speed kiting
Chapter 14: Competitions
Tour circuits
PKRA
KSP
KTE
KTA
The Triple-S Invitational
The IKA World Tour
Freestyle competitions
Waveriding competitions
Chapter 15: Governance
ISAF
IKA
BKSA
IKO
National structures
Chapter 16: Taking it to a new level
Becoming an instructor
Improving your performance, advanced coaching and
competing
The industry
The future is bright