Once you're comfortable riding around in chop and are at the stage where you're starting to eye those little ramps up with more relish, a good trick to move on to is the pop to toe-side. It basically involves rotating the board through 180 degrees in the air and landing in a position ready to fang out a heel-side carve, and is much more fun and slick than the old slide turn you've been doing up to now. Here Emmanuel Rondon demonstrates an unhooked 180 to toe-side, but the principles are the same, hooked-in or unhooked.

• Once you get used to this move, you should aim to execute it with your kite at 45, but for now, keeping your kite high will give your more float and slow things down for you. • Choose your take-off spot and fix your eyes on it. • As you approach it bend your knees slightly and transfer more of your weight onto your back foot.

• With plenty of weight on your rear foot and the front of the board lifting up, extend your back leg as you hit the apex of the chop to pop the board out of the water.

• Emmanuel does a huge pop here as he has his kite high and really popped hard off the chop as if he was going for a railey. Don't worry about popping this hard to start with, simply edging the board gently up into the wind as you hit the apex of the chop and then pulling the board underneath your body will leave you with plenty of air and more control to initiate the 180.

• Emmanuel does a huge pop here as he has his kite high and really popped hard off the chop as if he was going for a railey. Don't worry about popping this hard to start with, simply edging the board gently up into the wind as you hit the apex of the chop and then pulling the board underneath your body will leave you with plenty of air and more control to initiate the 180.

• Here Emmanuel is starting to pull his legs underneath his body to initiate the 180. All body movements are easier if your body is compact.

• It's easier to take your leading hand off the bar at this point as it frees your upper body up and opens your shoulders, allowing the lower part of your body to rotate and get the board spun through the 180. Before you take your hand off though, make sure your back hand is centralised on the bar to stop any unwanted kite steering!

• Use the bar to help you balance as you rotate the board by pulling the bar into your new front hip. Keep looking forwards though - where your head goes, your body follows and you don't want to look down too much otherwise you'll end up leaning too far forwards.

• As you come into land drop your new back foot backwards to meet the landing and remember to bend your knees to absorb the impact but keep your weight centralised to maintain balance.

• Land heading towards the kite to keep things controlled.

• When you feel comfortable but before you lose too much speed, put weight on your toes to engage the rail. • Now you're cruising and ready to start kicking up buckets with your spray gun, the heel-side carve!