Snap Stall Being able to stall a kite is a fundamental basic that once mastered will enable you to set up properley for so many other tricks. The type of stall that i found most useful when i was learning to trick was the snap stall. The aim so the snap stall is to use fast, snappy hand movements to knock the wind out of your sail, this loss in pressure also coresponds with a loss of momentum, when executed correctly the snap stall will cause the kite to stop dead in mid air, heres how it is done... Flying the kite from left to right across the window, as the kite approaches the right hand side of the window, pull on the left line to start the nose of the kite turning upwards. Immediatly push forward with the right hand and return both hands to the neutral position, the entire movement needs to be very fast and precise taking literally a split second. It is easier to stall the kite at the edge of the window as the pressure on the sail is much lower than in the centre BUT in order to maintain the stall you must keep pressure off your flying lines, this will mean walking forwards, how fast will depend upon where in the window you stall and how strong the wind is at the time, on a day with a reasonable wind to hold a snap stall mid window would require you to run. To start do this trick a the edge of the window and as you master it gradually move it closer to the centre of the window until you can snap stall and maintain the stall there. This trick can (and should) be done on both sides of the window but to do it on the left obviously reverse the instructions above.