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Kitesurf trick

Stalefish Frontroll

Intermediate
  • Jump
  • Grab
  • Rotation

A frontroll where your back hand grabs the heelside edge between your feet behind your back leg. It adds a classic grab to your frontroll and is a natural follow-on from frontroll grabs.

How to

  1. Edge and pop

    Ride with speed, kite at 11 or 1 o'clock, and edge hard, then stamp off your back foot as you pull the bar in.

  2. Keep it slow

    Keep your shoulders level and your upper body back over the tail instead of throwing yourself forward, so the rotation stays slow and off axis.

  3. Front hand on the bar

    Hold the bar on the sweet spot with your front hand and steer the kite forward.

  4. Grab stalefish

    Bend your legs and reach your back hand behind your back leg to the heel edge, then extend your back leg for the tweak.

  5. Dive and land

    Release, dive the kite hard and land heading downwind.

Common mistakes

  • Can't reach the grab

    Stop throwing yourself forward and keep your upper body back over the tail.

  • Dropping too quickly

    Pull the bar in on take off and steer the kite forward so it keeps you floating.

  • Holding too long

    Hold the grab only briefly at first so you have time to dive the kite for landing.

Builds on

Track your progress on the Stalefish Frontroll

Log every session on the Stalefish Frontroll 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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