Yesterday I took a miraculous medicine that eased the pain for what happened in Paris on Friday night. I went sailing. I woke up Saturday morning with a heavy veil of sadness that I could not drive out, but above all I felt threatened in my freedom. Alone, with my little lasers that possess 25 years, I have reinforced the wing, slid the boat into the water, hauled the sheet and left.

An hour and a half pushed by the wind, in contact with the water, with the sea in the face. I cheered, medicine output sailing I have done well, the heart, soul, mind, body. Why sailing means freedom, who is passionate knows.

Attempting the crowds that freedom from jihadist terrorist action that has caused hundreds of deaths and so much pain. The freedom that is now written in our DNA, cultivated for centuries by our Western society. Freedom means considering natural fun, dance, eat at the restaurant, watch a football game, listen to music, drink alcohol, have sex, to use the words you want to say what we want, to go to sea. Freedom is an enemy that jihadism can not even imagine to defeat. And enjoy the passion of sailing helps man to understand how valuable and good for freedom. A powerful medicine.

If you have ever wondering why unlike your friends you cannot jump higher, or make beautiful jumps with small or large rotations, the answer is probably you do not have a nice pop.

The pop is the take off of every trick of free-style and old-style hooked too.

The pop can be summed up as a coordinated movement precise and instantaneous act to send the kite in full power zone (remember the wind window change depending on your position and the strength of the wind) and to create a framework pre-tension on lines.

 

The ​​maneuvers that must be done are (keeping the kite at 45 °):

downwind for a while to increase speed, with a quick and sudden movement) and, before the board leaves the water push off with the back leg.

 

Many people arrive in our, as in other schools asking for advanced courses to jump better..

Usually the lesson in question does not focus on the on the pop and its coordination within the movements of the jump.

Remember the succession:

kite quickly to the zenith

pop

accompany the pull of the kite

once in the air

pull the bar

and as you begin the descent redirect the kite in the desired direction

spot your landing downwind

 

Some of these steps are almost contemporaries, also remember to be always “facing the kite”

the jump is a coordination of many elements, not particularly difficult to perform, but for a perfect execution is necessary that each element is not overlooked.

The pop can ‘influence up to 50% on the final result.

Powerful pop, performed at high speed ensure highest jumps.

Finally the board affects the result: the rocker (very roughly defined as the curvature) affects the handling while the “elastic” ones, the property to return quickly to its form after a pressure / torque gives you more intense jump off.

And you, who pop are you?

Michele

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The a.s.d. Stagnone Kitesurf is nestled in the beautiful setting of the natural reserve of the Stagnone Lagoon of Marsala (Tp), less than an hour’s drive from Palermo and a short walk from Birgi Airport.
We deal with advertise, initiate, and maintain the wonderful sport of Kitesurfing and in general all water sports like surfing, sup, windsurfing.
Kitesurfing is a sport specifically very young and on the rise of all ages and all walks of life. The fascination that causes the common beach observers is undeniable and goes along with addiction and that generates spending a day on a board surfing dragging by the wind. Contrary to what one might commonly believe, kitesurfing is a sport simple and very fast in learning, you are practically autonomous, with a course lasting about 6 hours.

Furthermore the gear (the kite to which you are bounded) does not require streight to be handled with, all the traction is discharged on the hearness (a belt buckled to waist) to which the arms serve only to manage the gear with bar system control as well as the wheel of a common bicycle.
That’s why even children starting for 9 years old , or very thin people can be successfully introduced to the sport. Furthermore, our strategic location on the lagoon makes this sport particularly safe and easy to learn: The lagoon has an average depth of 30-40 cm so you can walk back even several hundred meters away from the shore, the Lagoon is in communication with the open sea at only 2 points, there are no waves even the weather is windy or guesty.
This combination of shallow and calm water makes the lagoon the favorite destination for kiteboarders from all over Europe. It not infrequently happened that people or couples, bored by life in the city, have been found to spend a weekend in Marsala, approach to case in the world of kitesurfing with a course of a few hours are no longer out of this world. It’s not just a sport, it’s a world where you can shake every day new friendships, new links, strong new incentives, and why not new love stories: everyday Marsala and our school are the stage of arrival of new kiters from around the Summer in the world as well as in winter: the non-competitive nature of kiteboarding fact makes us all linked by strong common passion for the sport.
Fair winds to all

Stagnone Kitesurfing

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