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Kitesurf trick

Backroll to Toeside

Beginner
  • Jump
  • Rotation

A backroll that you finish on your toe edge instead of heelside. It is a normal backroll with a toeside landing, using the landing you learned in the pop to toeside.

How to

  1. Bear away from an edge

    In flat water, edge with the kite at 11 or 1 o'clock and your weight on the tail, then bear away slightly so you keep line tension.

  2. Carve and pop

    Carve upwind and kick off your back leg before you pull the bar, without sending the kite.

  3. Roll slowly

    Rotate a calm, normal backroll with your head turning to look for the landing.

  4. Swing the hips through

    Near the end, let your hips and legs bring the board round to toeside while your upper body stays where it is.

  5. Dive and land toeside

    Dive the kite forward before you touch down, then land on the toe edge and ride away.

Common mistakes

  • Over-rotating the roll

    Rotate a normal backroll and let your hips make the toeside landing instead of spinning further.

  • Kite parked high

    Give the kite a healthy dive before landing so its forward pull takes you onto your toes.

  • Pulling before the kick

    Kick off your back leg first, then pull the bar.

Builds on

Track your progress on the Backroll to Toeside

Log every session on the Backroll to Toeside in TrickTrack, rate how it went, add photos and videos, and watch it climb:

  1. 1/5Learning & practicing
  2. 2/5Progressing
  3. 3/5Landed at least once
  4. 4/5Consistent landings
  5. 5/5Landed every time
  6. Mastered

Then mark it mastered when it's yours.

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