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By this time you fully have you’re on the water transitions dialed in. You should be easily performing your transitions going both directions with complete control of your speed coming in and out of the transition. Once you feel that you’re at this stage in your transitions you can move to the next step, doing a transition while jumping. Once you progress one of the best places to throw down a trick or send it for a huge air is during your transition. Here I will describe the basic technique in your first aerial transition.
Step 1: In any transition it is key to have full board and kite control before initiating your maneuver. While holding a solid edge loaded with power and your kite riding at about 10 or 11 o’clock in a stable position full of power. When you’re ready to make the transition hold your edge while you send the kite quickly too neutral (the faster you send the kite, the more powerful your jump will be). You may be able to send the kite just past neutral but any further than 1 o’clock will make things more difficult for the next maneuver.
Step 2: As soon as your kite is reaching the neutral position you want to pop and release your edge, at this moment you will be rising off of the water with your kite directly over your head in the neutral position. Hold this position until the apex of your jump or until you loose the pull in your kite.
Step 3: Once you have lost power in your kite and have reached the apex of your jump you will instantly want to power your kite back down in the opposite direction that you sent the kite up. Going into the jump you pulled hard with your backhand to send the kite up. You will again be pulling with that same hand on your way down, bringing you back in the same direction in which you started.
Hints: Your first few attempts at this trick will most likely end up with you crashing hard on your butt into the water with no power in the kite. This is because you still have to perfect your timing on when you should start to bring the kite back in the opposite direction to initiate the transition and how aggressively this needs to be done. This can take a bit of time to perfect, but once you get that feeling of exactly when to power your kite you never loose it and will nail this trick every single time.
