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Blake from MACkite here! My apologies for the lack of updates over the past few months. I've been dealing with some injuries and recovering from a torn ACL meniscus. I've been traveling all over, and then I ripped my nose off after passing out from exhaustion and traveling too much, so I'm excited to get back to it! I'm in Sardinia, Italy, and I'm about to go for a Mistral heavy wind wing foil session with my friends Gregor from Holland and Chiara from Italy. I'm heading to the beach to meet up …

Hey, what's up guys? Blake from MACkiteboarding here, and today we're learning a super fun trick, which is the backroll. This is a game-changer once you can ride upwind and have your jumps down. This is the next step, where you're doing a sort of back flip. From there the possibilities are endless, so I'm really excited to teach you this. Step One: Kite Position The first step in a backroll is understanding the kite's position as you're going into it. There are many ways you can do a backrol …

What's up guys? This is Blake from MACkite here in Key West, Florida with Cole from MACkite. He just got in today and he's going to get out kiting. I can't with my torn ACL, so he's going to go do the kiting for me and we'll teach him some tricks! Cole Gets His Groove Back Cole: This morning, I was in Michigan and I had no idea I'd be kiting today, but here we are! Blake was nice enough to let me use his stuff, and now I'm getting a little session here in Key West. I don't know what else I cou …

Today we have a 28 trick list, from beginner to intermediate, so you can get an idea in your head of different things to go out and try in your next session, and just go have fun. Enjoy! Jumping Beach Start Straight Air Jump with Grab Heelside to Toeside Pop Toeside to Heelside Pop Butterslide Downloop Transition One-footed Start Sent Backroll Sent Backroll with Grab Powered Backroll Powered Backroll to Toeside with Grab Powered Frontroll Powered Frontroll with Grab Sent Frontroll Sent Fron …

What's up guys? Blake from MACkite here, and today I'm going tell you about my experiences in two recent hurricanes, Ian and Fiona, that came through the U.S and the Caribbean and up into Canada: riding in them, going through them, and the aftermath of what happened. My heart goes out to everyone that lost anything. I'm thinking of you all and hope you're hanging in there. Let us know if there's anything we can do to help. Riding in Hurricane Fiona So here's the story of two hurricanes, a gi …

This is Blake from MACkite here with 5 tips to help you ride upwind. Tip 1 - Twist Your Body Upwind Twist your shoulders and lean back over your back foot. This weights your back foot rather than both of your knees. This lets you get a stronger and harder edge. Twist and lean back, looking upwind. Twist with your shoulders and your hips, with your feet, and even point your toes upwind, and all of those little things together will make it so much easier for you. If you instead close your shou …

Blake from MACkite here. It's good to be back! I'm recovering from a torn ACL surgery, and just being able to walk is so incredible. So I figured... why not teach you one of the most important things in kiteboarding, which in my opinion is how to fall. Get Strong I have a lot of experience in falling; I've been injured a lot. Throughout the years of teaching myself how to kiteboard and do all of my own tricks, I have had to learn how to fall through trial and error. Now I've got it down to w …

Blake from MACkite here. I'm going for a session at the pier where I'm going to do some of my go-to kite foil tricks. Every time you go out, give these a try. They're super fun and I do them every time. Reverse self launch Shallow start pop-up Foot switch Toeside tack Straight air Backroll with grab Sit down Walk on water Seated carves Seated transition Seated one-foot drag Toeside frontroll transition Tack to toeside transition Tweaked grab Toeside pop High fives Speed runs Toeside one-foo …

Aaron: Hey guys, welcome back. We are live on the island with Blake. Blake, where are you at buddy? What are you up to today? Blake: It's been a busy day. I'm in the BVI right now on Moskito Island, which is one of Sir Richard Branson's islands. Behind me is Necker Island, where he lives. He just got in today, actually. It's incredible here; he's got quite a quite a thing going on. Aaron: So what have you been up to? I understand there's some confidential things that you can't disclo …

Blake from MACkite here on my way to Buffalo, which does not seem like the best idea. I had already planned it and had my whole trip booked, and then there's this catastrophic blizzard of the century that just hit. My heart goes out to everyone that had to go through that over there at Christmas break, and all the lives lost. So, so sad and tragic. I can't imagine having something like that happen over the holidays. I was going to go home to Key West, but I got this great opportunity to go w …

Hey, what's up guys? Blake from MACkite here, headed to Half Moon Bay in Antigua to go link up with Tiger Tyson, an amazing guy. He's a young 20-year-old Olympic athlete. He's training to go to the Worlds, and we're going to go kite together and have some fun at his house in his backyard at Half Moon Bay. I'm here at Half Moon Bay in Antigua with Tiger and his dad. They're out there right now. His dad's towing him behind him on a foil and having a good time, so I'm going to go out and follow …

This blog post provides an in-depth look at the five key steps necessary to learn how to water start when kiteboarding or kitesurfing. The first step is to get comfortable with the kite, learning how to launch and land it, as well as understanding its wind window. The second step involves compressing your body into a smaller package, which involves using the power of the kite to pull you through the water and upwind. Step three is getting onto the board, where you will need to carefully balan …

Hey, what's up guys? Blake from MACkite here, and today we're going to learn a really fun trick: a board-off beach landing. Step number one for this trick is to simply loosen your feet in the straps. You don't want your feet to be tight in the straps because you want to be able to take it off. If you come into the beach and you're jumping and your feet get stuck in the straps, you're going to land on the beach with your board on, which then causes more issues, and that's not …

The hooked-in raley is one of the gateway tricks toward all of your future load-and-pop style kiteboarding tricks. Learning this one will help you to develop a more aggressive, intermediate bag of tricks to your arsenal. Let’s get after it!   Weekly DEALS   Weekly VIDEOS   800.622.4655   Connect via EMAIL   Chat with Us LIVE …

Hey, what's up guys? Blake from MACkite here. I've been pretty busy traveling the past few months, taking a little break, but it's good to be back and making some tutorial videos. I've got a really fun trick for you today, the beach start, and I'm excited to go over it. This is a really fun trick because, instead of having to do your traditional "flying the kite, holding the board, walking into the water, putting it on your feet, and then sinking in", you can start right off the beach wi …