Tech Tips from Cabrinha – Cabrinha Kiteboarding 2009 Season

Nice to see that Manufacters are offering customers more than just a paper manual to help to setup their equipment. For so many kitesurfers, they use there kitesurfing kit exact as it comes out of the bag, and even then they can get confused as to how to set things up and tune it correctly. And getting your kit setup correct is a key part of being a better kitesurfer and feeling more confident on the water. Definitely lots of room for manufactures to offer their customers more support and online video is the obvious route.

Good job from Cabrinha and hopefully they’ll continue to add more videos for other kites and boards.

Here’s their video for fitting and adjusting their new straps – something which may seem obvious to some but proves tricky for many people new the sport.

(We had to remove the embedded video as it keep playing automatically and annoying us all! Click here to see it)

A few months back, I noticed that the main UK kiteboarder forum had added a couple of new sub-forums for people looking specifically for help with technique and tricks at all levels. It started slow but there are now some good posts popping up on everything from What do the different connections at the kite tips do? to Flat 3′s / 313′s.

So if you’re struggling with something specific (and your Progression DVD isn’t solving the problem then its a great place to ask a question and get a decend response, and return the favour and help someone else out with some advise of your own!

General Technique Forum

Newbies Forum

Any other good forums out there that are specifically good helping with instruction? Let us know in the comments…