Julie Simsar lives in Paris before she moves to usa for 3 years where she chooses a ski specialty for her studies. Julie chains up sports (windsurf, water ski…). Some years latter, Julie moves to Puerto Rico where she trains a lot and practices kitesurf as a favourite sport !
After getting a Bachelor of sciences in USA, Julie decides to go to Dominican Republican with Antoine Joubert (her boy friend !) to practice windsurf as much as she can. This is when both of them discover kite and stop windsurf. After 5 intensive months of kite, Julie goes back to the states and enters competition : Velocity Games, Texas, to get read of material, at least!!!
Sponsored by Globeriderkites in 2003, Julie participates to US competitions and to PKRA in Dominican Republican.
It is in January 2004 that the couple moves to Puerto Rico, in San Juan. « More it went, more sponsors where blooming at thje same rate as my technical skills ! I decided then to go further in competition ! »
In September 2004, Flexifoil becomes her partner.
Julie’s projects : « be 1st on PKRA ! »
Julie’s style : « I like the men style…where you charge but with elegance so i like doing it too ! Girls can do it as well as gays but they need more time for they are not as strong asn because they are a little more fearful too ! »
Sponsors: Flexifoil, Kronic kite boards, Da kine.
Le Kite loop Handle pass by Julie Simsar !
Julie Simsar is French, living in Puerto Rico. Met on PKRA, she is one of the rare girls to have tried Kite loop handle pass, at least for competition (Cabarete 2005).
Before getting to kiteloop handle pass.
« Before getting involved with this figure you must perform F16 (unhooked back loop kite loop). And chain up a F16 and a handle pass surface at landing, that may provide you with an idea of the move but won’t really help you in Kite loop handle pass. Being able to chain a Flat 360 handle pass on a small wave will help you to chain up the handle pass behind kite loop. »
Le kite loop (F16) handle pass.
« Start by maintaining the kite high. To launch kite loop, you get unhooked from harness, you place your hands as on a rod (back hand is closed to the bar centre, the front hand comes to place under on the rear back of the bar, as if you were holding a rod). Then, the kite will turn much faster.
The faster you make your kite loop the more you’ll get time to chain handle pass as kite does not pull so much, at the end of kite loop.
You must not be afraid of getting high since with height you’ll have more time too. You must keep going on the impulse when you have done your back loop and kite loop. In this rotation impulse, you turn upon yourself with no hesitation for handle pass handle pass, as kite is high again. Bar is always as close as possible from the body to anticipate handle pass. You watch the landing zone with your knees in flexion and land in down wind.
The 5th lines prevents painful crashes. Ideally, you may try with a 11 or 12 meters since those sizes are prompt and stable at the mean time, they let understand what is happening during the jump. »
By Julie Simsar
