Hi buck,

Assuming you have had lessons, your instructor is the best person to ask.

If you have not had lessons and don't have an instructor, then a short single lesson will help you a lot.

What you are asking can be one of up to a dozen things and without seeing you trying to ride, and knowing your board, the way your kite is rigged, the weather and wind conditions, how your posture/foot weighting is, etc we can't really offer any real help.

This is the sort of thing an instructor helping you can correct in about 10 minutes.

Good winds,

i had similar issue on low wind days when i started. Here is what keeps me up on the board when the wind drops... although i don't know if this would work for everyone or for every type of kite... but maybe you find it helpful

1 - gettin up you are doing a v-dive with the kite - so as TheChad said ensure you are not pointing your board towards the kite but perpendicular to the lines. When getting out of the water, your body will be pulled forward/sideways - in the direction of travel.

2 - once your kite is half way through v-dive, you will stear it back up - and the kite will be pulling your body upward somewhat, so at this point (or just before it), ensure you lean backward, and sometimes you might need to flex your legs as well to relief too much resistance on the board so that you don't sink right down - kind of distributting the weight rather than just pushing the board at one point and all your bodyweight down with your feet. So when the kite is going up, your posture should be like this (and often leaning even more backwards).

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Then lean forward a bit when you are dropping the kite down again, and so forth.

I fly a sb3 12 & 90 kegs , I demo,d a revolver and found it very easy to over sheet and it would back stall and didn,t feel to powerfull . i.m.o
I also had a lend of a 7 metre for my daughter to learn on and we found it hard to keep it powered up in light winds

Yeah Glen, one thing I haven't been through in detail is the subtleties of when to pull my red knob and when to pull my black one. I'm sure there's a lot to learn in managing my depower that will help this problem. Basically at the moment if its really windy I pull the red one a couple of times, and if its not I pull the black one a couple of times. I don't really know how to use the performance of the kite to tell me when I should be sheeting in/out.

That board trick sounds like it might be useful, and makes complete sense. Because my next goal is to start riding upwind, I may be edging too hard too soon. I'll have a play around with it this weekend.

Cheers for the help!!

I used to fly a Convert as well, are you using the lines in 2:1 or 1:1? I had the same problem until I changed the line setup, it shouldn't really make a difference but it did...if you aren't confident changing the setup take it to the shop you bought it, they should show you.

Having said that I had a 9m Convert and went to a 12m SB3 which fixed everything

Danos, I used to be 2:1 but changed to 1:1 with the help of my instructor. Seemed to make the kite a bit more responsive.

Junglist, this is also somehting I'm working on. At first I wasn't diving it far enough into the window, I was too gentle with the bar. Then I got that right by being quite aggressive with the bar, but then pulled it in too far and lost the sweet spot. I noticed on the weekend that diving the kite and then not pulling the bar in too far really helped with the launch. But then I struggled with the plane!

I'm enjoying the learning though!

Cheers guys