Hello all,

This is my 2nd post regarding load and pop, after watching decades of videos and reading almost every forum post that is available concerning pure load and pop ( not a sent kite jump). I have been struggling for my last sessions to get load and pop applied, but after my last session which was yesterday, I think I am focusing on wrong aspects on what am I doing wrong so I wanted your opinion.

So my thought is, while going left foot forward which is my good side, I edge very well and hard at the point that I see my self in a completely higher upwind angle than the other kite surfers in front of me. For example I am travelling 45 degrees while they may be travelling 25 to 30 degrees upwind ( not sure if the degrees are correct, just want to stress the angle in which I edge).

Edging hard allows me to gain good speed while building apparent wind (if I understand this correctly).

So when I set myself to try to load and pop, I think the following problems occur which I theorized today:

1) I feel when I flatten my board to go downwind I feel that I kill my speed instead of gaining more. I know it has to be done for nearly a second but still something doesn't feel right.

2) What I believe is going wrong and I think doesn't help me is that, because already I am traveling in a high angle, the downwind and loading phase is killing my kite because there is no actual "space" to load effectively because already my board is in the upper angle range, which a higher angle than that, which comes with loading is slowing me down - stopping me. As soon as I try to edge suddenly and hard I feel that I choke the kite and my board looses contact with the water in a sense that it goes vertical and all goes wrong.


I do not know if I learn to edge more softly etc. but this hard angle comes naturally.

Sorry if all this doesn't make any sense. I tried to explain it in the best way I could.

Thank you in advance.

George