LATEST BEST
10.5 m
Best recorded jump in the latest published Kite Session.
PROGRESSION · RECOVERY ARC
THE RIDING FEELS BACK TO NORMAL. THE WOO 4 SCORES DON’T.
Since returning from a serious kitesurfing accident, my riding feels like it’s back where it should be. But the WOO 4 results are still poor. So what’s changed — my performance, the way I’m riding, or the way WOO 4 is recording it?
QUICK ANSWER
What does the Beyond The Edge progression data show?
This is the long view of my big-air journey — the best jumps, the accident, the road back, the different WOO generations and where my riding sits today against the history behind it.
SESSION HISTORY
THE LONG ARC, NOT JUST THE COMEBACK.
There’s definitely something different in the way WOO has recorded height from V1 through to V4. Add a serious injury, getting older and the simple fact that the numbers aren’t where they used to be, and that’s really what this project is about — working out what’s changed in my riding, what WOO is actually picking up, and what I need to do differently to start going bigger again.
SESSION EXPLORERSESSION 685
WOO HEIGHT6.60 mHISTORICAL POSITION—
ALL SESSION-BESTS12.5 M+15 M+15.6 M ACCIDENT16.6 M WOO PB25-SESSION ROLLING MEDIAN
WOO HARDWARE TIMELINECALENDAR RELEASE DATES — CONTEXT ONLY
WOO 1.0JAN 2015WOO 2.0JUN 2016WOO 3.0APR 2018WOO 4.0AUG 2023
COACH-POWERED PROGRESSION
BEST, NORMAL AND EXPECTED.
The long historical record stays intact on RYOW. From here forward, BTE session intelligence supplies the published session evidence: what I actually achieved, what a normal jump looked like, and what Coach expected from the conditions and setup.
RYOW FALLBACK
The historic archive is preserved on RYOW; new published session evidence is supplied by BTE session intelligence.
SESSION NORMAL
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The typical jump level, not just the single best result.
COACH EXPECTED
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Coach prediction for the same conditions and equipment.
RECENT BIAS
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Average best-minus-predicted difference where both values exist.
RECENT TRAJECTORY
BEST VS NORMAL VS COACH.
BESTNORMALCOACH
HISTORICAL POSITION
WHERE THE LATEST RIDE SITS.
The latest recorded WOO ride is positioned against 638 recorded WOO sessions. Exploring an older session in the chart above no longer changes this view.
PROFILE MIDPOINT
8.6 m
50% of recorded session-bests are below this height.
TOP 25% STARTS
10.9 m
Only one in four sessions reaches this height or higher.
TOP 10% STARTS
12.7 m
Only one in ten sessions reaches this height or higher.
LATEST WOO RIDE
Session 685 · 10.5 m
17 Sep 2026 · 10.5 m latest recorded session-best. Live session data calculates its profile position automatically when available.
LATEST RIDE → 10–12m BAND
SESSION DISTRIBUTION
LATEST RIDE VS THE PROFILE.
RECORDED SEQUENCE
THE MILESTONES TELL THE STORY.
THE NUMBERS COME FIRST. THEN I WORK OUT WHAT THEY MEAN.
15.6 m accident session.
The factual WOO3 reference point before a long recovery period.
Long time away.
No kiting sessions during the first recuperation period.
16.5 m first session back.
WOO3 score showed post accident, my top-end had not simply vanished
Another period away.
A second interruption, followed by the introduction of WOO4.
Rebuilding the envelope.
The challenge is making 12.5 m+ repeatable on WOO4, getting back into the 16 m zone, then attacking 20 m.
INTERPRETATION
Learning a new Game!
I need to adapt my technique to record better height.
FACT
Top end appeared on return.
The 16.5 m first session back matters because it demonstrates preserved capability.
PROBLEM
Repeatability did not follow.
One exceptional result is not the same as a rebuilt performance envelope.
PROJECT
Make strong sessions normal again.
Build repeatability first, then push the ceiling.
As a capture device the WOO continues to be the standard for kiters. But the rules of the game are set, and I need to work out what they are to play.
RIDER COMPARISON · WOO 4 EVIDENCE
SAME HOME WATERS. DIFFERENT JUMP SIGNATURES
Grant Clayton and John Barber are both mates I regularly ride with, and both give me valuable WOO 4 comparison points against my own riding. Grant runs Kitesurf Scotland and is the current UK WOO Big Air Grand Master. John is an exceptionally accomplished big-air kiter, with the ability and consistency to make his WOO 4 data a serious benchmark in its own right.
Looking across the available jump data, the three of us show different signatures in Edge, Pop, Pop Velocity, approach speed and height. Those differences are useful because they help separate individual riding style from the mechanics that may actually be contributing to better recorded height.
The point is not to copy Grant or John. It is to understand what two highly capable riders are doing differently, compare that against my own WOO 4 signature, and work out which changes could help me convert more of the available power into height.
COMPARE MY WOO 4 DATA WITH GRANT → COMPARE MY WOO 4 DATA WITH JOHN →