toeside is where you ride with your heels facing the kite, or in just plain boarding turns (no wind power) it's where you turn to the side your toes
are pointing in.
toeside is generally regarded as being a harder stance to ride because you have to reach around your body and control the kite, plus it's just natural
to not want to fall on your face. Try just leaning forward then leaning back and see what feels more natural to fall on, your wrist and potentially
your face or your wrists and your butt.
however I find toeside very fun, the farther I lean over the better!
I learned landboarding by practicing toeside trying to go upwind first. Combining both hardest elements is tough, but if you master that, then when
it comes time to come back the other way, a downwind heelside (where you toes face the kite) run is your reward! And well worth it too.domdino - 16-4-2007 at 05:04 PM
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Originally posted by chadvicki
So what is toe side exactly?
Chad
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matthewlavin - 17-4-2007 at 10:49 AM
Dom- how was pismo? where did you stay? did you land board too? or just drink sat water, FYI pismo is considered one of the best begginer surf
breaks in cali. not to mention it has the widest beach too.
mdomdino - 17-4-2007 at 01:54 PM
Pismo was AMAZING!
it was too windy for landboarding - 25mph+ most of the time i was there - i just went up there for the day to check it out. Safety leash on my venom
snapped though which i was a bit pissed off about :megan: my kite blew off had to chase it into the dunes...
landboarding will be perfect there - when do you get back? i've got two weeks off work coming up kite kite kite kite!!! hopefully there isn't a landboarding ban there like some fella said to mej55 - 20-4-2007 at 10:54 AM
how do u get into toe side?code - 21-4-2007 at 02:09 PM
You have to powerslide the board into toeside or jump the board into toe side. You can start in toeside too...but that's probably not recommended as
it's not the easiest thing to do, nor is it the most efficient way of learning.
~Joej55 - 22-4-2007 at 05:01 PM
and is this done best at the end of your fun, i mean at the edge of the window whilst slowing down?
