Kitesurfing Tricks:
Inverts
Inverts are wakestyle tricks that are performed when the kiteboarder goes upside down while in the air. The first person to perform a unique trick in competition gets to name it – hence a strange variety of names.
313: Heelside Raley with a frontside handle-pass 360
313 5: Heelside Raley with a frontside handle-pass 540
90210: Toeside Raley with a frontside handle-pass 360
911: A shifty Raley
Ailey: an accidental raley or an air raley without landing.
Air Raley: Board is thrown out behind the rider and above the head in a “Superman” fashion
Batwing: Toeside Raley with an Indy grab
Batwing to Blind: Toeside Raley with a backside 180.
Bee Sting: A Vulcan where the rider grabs melan like a Hoochie Glide on the way down
Big Wurm: A toeside Front Roll with frontside 540. Handle is rotated above the head
Blender: A wrapped Heelside Backroll
Blind Judge: Heelside Raley with a backside 180
Blind Pete: A toeside back roll with backside 360
Crook: Whirlybird with a rewind 180 to fakie.
Crow Mobe: A toeside front roll with frontside 360.
Crow Mobe 540: A toeside front roll with frontside 540
Diesel: A toeside Front Roll with a frontside 360. Handle is rotated above the head
Discombobulator: A wrapped Heelside Backroll with a frontside 540
Double Back Roll: A heelside double Backroll
Dum Dum: A toeside front roll with backside 360.
Dum Dum 540: A toeside front roll with backside 540.
Elephant: A Scarecrow with a rewind 180 back to forward
Fat Chance: A switchstance heelside front flip with a frontside 360
More Kiteboarding Tricks
Flavor Flip: A toeside front flip with a backside 360
Front Flip: An end over end cartwheel style flip.
Front Flip to Fakie: Front flip with a frontside 180.
Fruit Loop: A toeside front flip with a backside 180
Half-Cab Roll: A switch Roll To Revert.
Half Cab Double Backroll: A Half Cab Roll into a Toeside Backroll
Half-Cab Double Back Roll Mobe: A Half-Cab Double back roll with an additional 180
Half-Cab Front Flip: Switchstance frontflip with a frontside 180.
Hasslehoff: A switch heelside front flip with a backside 180
Heelside Backroll: Board and rider perform what is most easily described as a “reverse cartwheel”. Imagine the board is riding all the way around the inside of a pipe.
Hoochie 313: Hoochie glide with a frontside 360.
Hoochie Glide: Heelside Raley with a Method grab
Hoochie Krypt: Hoochie glide with a frontside 180. AKA hooch to fakie.
Hoochie to Blind: Hoochie glide with a backside 180 landing wrapped or passing the handle
Indy Glide: A 911 with an Indy grab.
Iron Cross: A Wrapped Moby Dick
KGB: A heelside backroll with a handle-pass backside 360
KGB 540: A heelside backroll with a wrapped backside 540
Krypt: Raley with a frontside 180.
Mexican Roll: A Heelside Backroll where the rider throws his head and body down instead of to the side.
Mobius: A heelside Backroll with a frontside 360.
Mobius 540: A heelside Backroll with a frontside 540
Moby Dick: A tantrum with a backside 360
Oh Really: Toeside Raley with a Frontside 540.
OHH: Heelside Raley with a Stalefish grab. AKA Other Handed Hoochie Glide
Orbital: An over the line, inverted, backside 360
Orbital 540: An over the line, inverted, backside 540
Oriental: Heelside Raley with a Slob grab
Pete Rose: A toeside back roll with frontside 360. Typically done with a slob or method grab
Pete Rose 540: A toeside back roll with frontside 540
Remix: A wrapped front flip with a frontside 360. AKA wrapped Slim Chance
Roll to Revert: Backroll with a frontside 180.
Roll to Blind: A heelside backroll with a backside 180
S-Bend: Heelside raley with an overhead backside 360. Both hands over head
S-Bend to Blind: S-Bend with a backside 180
S-Bend 720: Heelside Raley with two overhead backside 360′s. Both hands overhead
Scarecrow: Front roll with a frontside 180
Skeezer: A switchstance toeside front roll with frontside 360. AKA for a switch Crow Mobe
Slim Chance: A heelside front flip with a frontside 360. AKA a Front Mobe.
Slim Chance 540: A heelside front flip with a frontside 540
Slowball: An extremely stalled out heelside Front Flip where the body is kept very straight
Slurpy: Rider approached the wake with both hands behind back and performs a toeside backroll with a backside 360
S-Mobe: An S-bend with a frontside handle-pass 360 on the way down.
Special K: A Toeside Backroll to blind approached with both hands behind the back.
Speedball: Heelside double Front Flip
Spiderman: A heelside tantrum with a backside 360. Handle rotated over the head with the backhand. Basically a whirlybird with the back hand on the handle –
Square Raley: A Raley done without the use of the wake. AKA Air Air Raley
Switch Front w/backside 360: A switchstance front flip with a backside 360
Tantrum: A heelside backflip – Invented by Eric Perez.
Tantrum to Fakie: Tantrum with a frontside 180.
Tantrum to Blind: A tantrum with an indy grab and a backside 180.
Temper Tantrum: A double Tantrum.
Toeside Backroll: A toeside backflip.
Toeside Roll To Blind (G-spot): A toeside back roll with a wrapped/handle-pass backside 180.
Toeside Roll To Revert: A toeside backflip with a frontside 180.
Toeside Front roll: Rider throws their head and body down in a somersault fashion.
Tootsie Roll: A toeside front roll with a backside 180.
Vulcan: An S-Bend with a frontside 180. AKA S-Bend to fakie .
Whirlybird: A tantrum with a backside 360. Handle rotated above the head.
Whirlybird 540: A Tantrum with a backside 540. Handle rotated above the head.
Whirlybird 720: A Tantrum with a backside 720. Handle rotated above the head.
WhirlyDick: A Whirlybird where the rider does a handle pass backside 360 after the first overhead spin.
Wrapped KGB: A heelside backroll with a wrapped backside 360.
Wrecking Ball: A wrapped tantrum with a backside 360. Sometimes referred to as a wrapped Whirlybird.
X-Mobe: A switch stance toeside backroll with a frontside 360. AKA switch Pete Rose.
AIR TRICKS:
Air tricks are moves done in the flats without the use of the wake. Most moves do not have a separate name to distinguish them from their off-the-wake equivalents. Some notable exceptions are:
Bel Air: Air Tantrum.
Bel Air to blind: Air Tantrum with a backside 180.
Eggroll: Air Scarecrow.
Tweetybird: Air Whirlybird
