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Backroll Transition

Beginner
  • Jump
  • Transition
  • Rotation

A backroll where you land riding the other way. It puts your backroll and your jump transition together and is a common step before rotations with more height.

How to

  1. Edge and slow down

    Edge upwind with the kite at 11 or 1 o'clock and ease the bar out so you go upwind with little pressure.

  2. Send short and sharp

    Send the kite quickly up to 12 o'clock and level the bar so it stops there.

  3. Carve and take off

    Carve upwind into the rotation, stamp off your back leg and then pull the bar for lift.

  4. Rotate and dive

    As you come round, turn your head to the landing and dive the kite with your new front hand towards the new direction.

  5. Land in the new direction

    Touch down tail first with the board pointing downwind in your new direction and edge away.

Common mistakes

  • Kite past 12 o'clock

    Keep the send short and level the bar before take off so the kite stops at 12.

  • No dive to finish

    Dive the kite towards the new direction as you come round so it pulls you out of the landing.

  • Landing across the wind

    Point the board downwind before you touch down.

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Track your progress on the Backroll Transition

Log every session on the Backroll Transition 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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