Side Slide

The side slide is another kind of stall and when done well it gives a really spectacular effect. The aim of the side slide is to stall the kite at one side of the window with the nose up and the wing tips parallel to the ground and for the kite to slide in this position sideways across the window...

Flying the kite across the window from left to right across the window, at the right hand side pull left to initiate a lef thand rotation, as the wing tips are heading for parallel with the ground push forwatd with the left hand th give slack to both lines (but not too much) the kite should start to slide left. You can control the slide, that is if a wing tip starts to drop you can raise it again by pulling lightly on the side that is dropping whilst the kite is in the stalled state the controls reverse.