Stand up on the board

Your first flight will be the result of a succession of correctly executed steps. With practice, these will happen naturally. Our complete How To covers the 7 steps you need to acquire to launch your first flight and all the following ones.

Today we are focusing on the key points of step 5: stand up on the board.

• You can now orient yourself and navigate on your knees. But standing up is nice too.
• So place the board at the right angle to the wind: crosswind.
• Generate a little traction by pulling on the back hand to sheet in. It will help to lighten you to pass the front foot.
• Raise the front leg and put the front foot flat not far from the strap.
• Adjust its position by slipping it into the strap.
• Ok, everything is fine, stabilize the whole thing and stay on course. Looking into the distance can help.
• Now we will have to lever all the weight of the body to move the rear foot upright.
• Sheet in frankly to have a powerful lever and presto, stand up casually.
• The rear foot is placed just in front of the rear strap at 90 ° to the board.
• Here you are standing with full strength.