Body drag in Kitesurfing in mean you hold the kite in one direction in the wind window for create the power to pull you forward and this also a lesson in kitesurfing course.
Why Body Drag?
- Body drag help you get board back when you fall out of the board
- Help you get land when you lost a board or anythings happened that made you can not stand on board like injuried,light wind….
- Help you go to other place on the water while you don’t have board in your feet
- Help you bring the board outside breaking waves where flat water for you water start.
Some of rules when body drag
- You can body drag with one hand or two hands
- You can body drag downwind and up wind. the further you body drag down wind the more speed you get
- You can not body drag if your body perpendicular with the wind direction
- Your front arm, your body, your legs should be make strength line.
- Hold the kite higher in the wind windown
- if you body drag with the board just make the board straight line with your hand, your arm and your leg
How we teach you body drag?
The first we will teach about body drag techniques on the land and helping you practice familiarise with these technique after that we will take the kite and pull you out of the breaking waves when we get flat water then I will move the kite to you and support you practice to body drag on the water. do it by one hand and two hands downwind and upwind.
To Phan is Surf and Kite Instructor, Surfboard shaper. Owner this Blog and Founder UWBoards Brand
