My video fron the summer in WA 2011
Supported by Naish and fahlensurf.se

Sponsored by Naish, but riding Slingshot kites!!!!

the reason I gave up kite boarding, I didn't have any basketball singlets

A truly terrible video, so I may struggle to be constructive in my comments.

I completely agree with Sci's critique, except it could have been harsher, and I'll add to spacemonkey's pull-up comments:

EVERY trick, you have your arms significantly bent at the elbows. This is a fundamental flaw in your technique and your riding will lack power and style until you can change this because your arms are angled across, rather than in line with the force from your kite to your centre of gravity. If you extend your arms more you can handle greater pull as you pop into the moves.

Changing it will involve more than extending your elbows though. The whole setup and sequence of how you load and pop and initiate rotations will have to change. Look at some videos of some good riders, and invariably when they are leaving the water their arms are straight, often to the extent of touching the sides of their heads. This requires good mobility of the sterno-clavicular joints too.

If you want Naish's support, have a look at some archival footage of Robby in action. He may not do the twirly-spaz stuff but what he does do, he does with fluid style and power. He also knows a lot about video composition.

Edit: I'm not claiming I can do any of the stuff in this vid; I can't. What I am claiming is that aesthetically and biomechanically (and yes, I'm professionally qualified to comment on this) I'd rather see a lot more style and would happily sacrifice a half or whole rotation to get it. This vid is presented as a "pro" or aspiring pro vid rather than a happy punter simply sharing the stoke via go pro. It should be critiqued as such.

WFT? Its a guy doing a railey over and over, looks like its from the early 90's or some **.

If the guy in the first vid did 50 raileys in a row would you think he is awesome???? To me it looked like he doesn't have much variation in his moves, I got pretty bored of it

Nah I was talking about the first guy

To clarify: The first guy is about as boring and repetitive as your railey boyfriend. The end. Snore

yeh not sure what pipe some of u clowns smoke but extending ur arms does not in any way add style or power.
loading and releasing with bent arms gives you significantly more control and if you do it right significantly more style too.

that video was pure ****, lunch time back to the future crap over and over.
so was that raley at cable, he doesnt even go big or cut hard...

@spacemoney:
Yep he does send it quite a bit (not in every trick though), but I have seen far worse examples of dangling.
If he was an Aussie, he would probably get props here..

@eeze:
Shannon said it in some video, don't ask me which one though..
If you wanna find out more you could register at the Best forum and ask Shannon there, he often answers questions.

perhaps a counter-example will illustrate my point.

@Charl:
I'm not saying that was the best cable railey ever, but it shows that you can get some decent pop without sending a kite and the arms bent.
For railey fetishists, maybe this video is better..
In particular the one at 1:34:

KnutH said...

@spacemoney:
Yep he does send it quite a bit (not in every trick though), but I have seen far worse examples of dangling.
If he was an Aussie, he would probably get props here..

@eeze:
Shannon said it in some video, don't ask me which one though..
If you wanna find out more you could register at the Best forum and ask Shannon there, he often answers questions.

notice how this vid was shot in WA.. in aus.. and no he got no props here.

Charl, Petter Svensson sounds rather Skandinavian to me, and as far as I know Euros are not that popular at Safety Bay generally.. anyway, who cares.

Sorry about the precious pond water and the overall torture that I inflicted with the first railey video, I will consider that in the future!