First get a stack of flexifoils or a 4 line foil kite and wait for some good wind !! The following techniques work for both types !! You need to feel the kite lifting a proportion of your weight when they are directly overhead – now don’t forget that getting it there can be “interesting”. If the kite is pulling this hard don’t launch it directly downwind or you will be in BIG trouble – better to launch at the edge of the wind and “slide” it up gently. The earlier Flexifoil videos show one technique where you dig a big hole in the beach and brace yourself against it, pull the kite to one side then allow them to accelerate up in a graceful arc. When the power is sufficient you are literally catapulted out of the hole. This can work without a hole of course but the jumps are not so big.
Another type of jumping is a swinging type jump – basically pull the kite gently towards one edge of the wind window, say to the right. Begin to pull the kite to the left so that it travels along and up in a large arc. At the SAME time begin to run to the right and a bit into wind. Try to keep the kite climbing. At some stage the pull of the kite will lift you, but don’t forget that you’ve been running and gaining speed in the opposite direction. You will swing from the kite in a large curved path. Since you have gained speed the landing can be awkward. Keep the kites overhead if at all possible. At this stage I usually hurt myself !! It is better to use a very stable kite for this which does not overfly for example the 4.9 Blade.
A variation on this is a “low gravity walk” or “moonwalk”. For this I match a kite to the wind which takes a good percentage of my weight when directly overhead ( I reckon about 80%) – my 3.3 Blade in about 20-25mph wind is good. Ease the kite say to the right (you can really use a 2 line technique with the Blade by simply pulling back on the right hand main line) . As the kite moves and accelerates you are gently lifted forwards and towards the right side. Ease the kite once again towards the centre of the wind window and allow yourself to land slowly. Quickly ease the kite to the left and you are lifted forwards and towards the left. Ease the kite back to the neutral position and land then repeat the process. Overall you end up going down the beach in a series of (hopefully) graceful leaps. The kite really doesn’t have to move too much if the pull is strong enough. I always use a non-captive harness such as the DB capstan harness which is ideally suited to smooth 2 line type flying of Blades.