Riding with better posture is the easiest way to ride better in all conditions. Bad posture (Pooman or poo hanger stance) is a dead giveaway of an inexperienced or learner rider and is usually easy to rectify. When riding, keep your upper body in the same plane as your legs. Keep your body straight and push your hips forward and lean out supporting your upper body with your abs. You will be surprised how your riding will improve.

Bad posture is generally a result of equipment which is not suited to the rider but as the rider is not experienced enough with equipment to realize there are options they put up with it not realising the problem even exists.

Firstly by keeping your waist harness low and not up around your ribs, you will have a better chance of getting the weight in your upper body further out from the centre of pull. This will give you better leverage when edging out gusts or strong wind. You can also use a seat harness to keep the centre of weight low to give you more leverage. The second biggest problem is riders riding overpowered because they believe bigger kites will make bigger jumps, this is not the case. Riding over-powered often ends up with trim straps fully trimmed in and the bar being wrenched all the way towards the end of the trim rope to cope with the power. This pulls your upper body in towards the bar and away from where it is needed ..... out as far as possible.

Riding an appropriately sized kite allows you to ride with the bar pulled in where you can then lean back and get your upper body weight out over the centre of pull. A trim loop (chicken loop) that is too large or too encumbered with quick releases means the bar is also too far away from your body. If you are not unhooking, you can attach a witchard shackle to your spreader hook and remove the quick release and trim (chicken) loop. If you add a stainless steel ring in place of the trim loop which you then connect to the witchard you can remove as much as 6 to 8 inches distance you need to lean in. A further gain in distance is in tightening the spreader bar tighter against your body. I have noticed on several occasions my spreader bar is 2 inches away from my harness.

You should be able to reach the detent stop at full depower without having to lean all the way in over your board. This is especially applicable to people riding "bow" style (SLE) kites which have extraordinarily long trim ropes.