Quad-line tricks and freestyle

Freestyle is often associated with dual-line kites, but quad-line kites also have their own tricks: axels, flic flacs, catches, throws, pancakes and more. This page is a QuadKites.org selection organized by trick, not a learning path ranked from easiest to hardest.

The resources do not all serve the same purpose: some explain the input, while others show a practice session, a demonstration or a slow-motion view. The vocabulary itself is less standardized than in dual-line flying.

Videos are in English or French. You can activate subtitles in the YouTube player if you need to: how to activate subtitles.

Thanks to all the authors of these tutorial and illustrative videos.

If you are still working on launches, stops or landings, start with the basics of flying. For written explanations and animations, see Jordi Morella’s advanced freestyle tricks.

Three videos present the trick from different perspectives; the final one lets you observe it in slow motion.

Tutorial — Jeremy Wharton

Tutorial — Aerialis Kites

Short presentation — Spence Watson

Slow motion — FrenchToastCo

These two short formats introduce the movement. Kitelife points viewers to its complete tutorial.

Tutorial preview — Kitelife

Short presentation — Spence Watson

These videos mainly show drills and practice sessions rather than a method broken down step by step.

Drills — John Barresi

Practice session — Crystal Wilder

Short sequence featuring John Barresi

The trick appears at 2:32 in Geoff Hutton’s video.

The Fly 4 Fun learning path includes a tutorial dedicated to the pancake.

Jordi Morella’s path also explains the fade and a catch from the ground. The Fly 4 Fun catalogue brings together many individual tricks and combinations.

This selection still needs more verified resources for:

• the 360;
• toss and catch;
• the float;
• the diving clam.

Explore resources by author: each retains its own vocabulary, exercises, and, when it has one, order of progression.