Straight High Jump
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A basic jump when the kite lifts your board up from the water surface.
How do it
The first jump that you are gonna learn is the basic high jump with the kite. The main thing about the jump is to generate power with the kite so that it would lift you up.
1.
Get enough speed, kite at 11/1 o'clock.
2.
Aggressively steer the kite back.
3.
Make an impulse on the bar to return the kite to 12.
4.
Pop off the water and take off.
5.
Keep your body compact
6.
When you start to come down, straighten legs a bit, move kite forward.
7.
On the landing bend your knees to absorb the impact, point nose of the board downwind.