Pancake The Pancake is a move that Ihave only found to have value on its own as an ariel trick in low wind. It is however one move that is fundamental to many freestyle tricks and combinations. The kite is flown from the top of the window down towards the ground. Pull BOTH arms back behind you, if done too quickly this will make your kite accelerate. Simultaneously throw both arms forward and step forward at the same time, the kite will flatten out, belly towards the ground, to maintain this stall, move forward. To come out of the pancake simply pull on a line and fly away. One of my favorite uses for the pancake is a trick called the Belly landing, fly straight down the centre of the window towards the ground, at the last moment excecute a pancake so that instead of drilling your kite nose first into the ground it comes to rest belly down, nose away in a pancake position, This looks really cool when done well, but does require split second timing , a real spar buster !