Tired of your usual three tricks?
“Most riders get stuck doing the same three or four tricks, not because they cannot learn more, but because choosing what to try next takes more mental energy than the trick itself. Tricktryer is a filter based random trick generator built for exactly that moment. Set your board, discipline and how spicy you want it, draw a trick, and go. Do not like the card, draw again.”
Every session eventually turns into the same rerun. Backroll, maybe a rolltack if it decides to cooperate, and if I am feeling brave, an attempt at a frontroll that is currently winning more often than I am. It is not that I forgot how to try new things. It is that standing in the water with a full head of options is somehow more exhausting than the trick itself.
Some days a trick just does not want to happen, no matter how many times you throw yourself at it. Other days it clicks out of nowhere. And some days you do not need a plan at all, you just need a nudge, a reason to try something you would not have picked on your own. That is the actual gap TrickTryer is built for. Not a training plan, not a checklist, just a way to hand the decision to something else for once.
Why do you keep doing the same three tricks?
Because the tricks you already know are the safe option, and safe options do not require a decision. Learning a new trick means picking one out of dozens, admitting you might look ridiculous trying it, and accepting that today might just be a write off. Most riders will choose the comfortable backroll over that mental tax nine times out of ten, not because they lack ambition, but because nobody enjoys standing on the beach doing an inventory of their own fear.
This is the same wall covered in stuck in a kitesurfing plateau, except this version is smaller and sneakier. It is not a full plateau, it is just decision fatigue wearing a plateau costume.
What is TrickTryer and how does it work?
The TrickTryer is a filter based tool that hands you one random trick to go try, instead of leaving you to pick from an endless mental list. Three filters, then a draw.
Board: any board, twintip or directional.
Discipline: all disciplines, beginner, freeride, big air, strapless, unhooked or wave.
Risk level: any risk, chill, spicy or send it.
There is also an insta worthy only toggle, for the days you need content as much as you need a challenge.
Set your filters and TrickTryer draws you a trick, out of well over a hundred and eighty depending on how wide you leave them. No ranking, no progression path, no promise that it is the logical next step. Just a card, drawn for you, so you can stop thinking and start walking to the water.
And if the trick it draws does not sit right with you, draw again. There is no limit. You are not committing to whatever comes up first, you are just giving yourself a starting point instead of standing there scrolling through your own head.
When should you actually use it?
Three moments, honestly.
A trick genuinely is not working. Some days you throw yourself at the same move for an hour and the water clearly has other plans. That is a good moment to let TrickTryer hand you something else entirely rather than turning a bad session worse by force.
Nothing is wrong, you are just bored. Same three tricks, same order, same result. You do not need therapy for that, you need a new draw.
You are hanging out with friends at the spot, and this is the one nobody admits, the who jumps highest game has run its course for the hundredth time. Fill in TrickTryer, whoever gets the trick has to try it, and suddenly an ordinary session has a plot again.
What if it gives you a trick you are scared of?
Then it is probably working. A random trick generator is not going to hand you something you already feel completely safe doing, that would defeat the purpose. If a draw makes your stomach drop a little, that reaction is worth paying attention to rather than avoiding.
That said, scared and reckless are not the same thing. If a trick is genuinely outside what your current skill or the day's conditions can support, that is exactly what the redraw is for, dial the risk level down to chill instead of forcing a send it draw on a day that is not made for it.
Is it okay to just use it for fun with friends?
Yes, and honestly that might be the best use case. Not every session needs to be about progression. Sometimes the goal is just to make an afternoon at the spot more interesting than another round of guessing who can jump highest. Fill it in together, whoever gets the trick has to actually attempt it, and let the tool pick the chaos for you.
If it happens to draw you toward your first heliloop attempt, that is a bonus, not the requirement. Read up on what you are actually getting into first though, understand downloops kiteloops and heliloops or, if it draws something that can genuinely go wrong fast, survive the scary deathloop are worth a read before you commit.
Ready to draw your first trick?
I did not build Tricktryer because I had a system figured out. I built it because I kept getting asked the same question, what should I try next, and I never had a satisfying answer beyond a shrug and whatever I happened to be doing that week. So now there is a shrug you can generate yourself. Set your filters, draw your trick, go find out if today is the day it clicks.
xox Berito
Quick answers
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TrickTryer is a free tool on Berito that draws a random kitesurfing trick to try, based on filters for board, discipline and risk level, so you do not have to decide what to attempt next yourself.
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Yes, beginner is one of the discipline filters, so the trick it draws can match exactly where you are rather than pulling from advanced moves only.
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No, TrickTryer only tells you which trick to try, not how to execute it. For the actual technique, an instructor or lesson is the honest route, not a blog post.
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Yes, it works well as a group activity at the spot, everyone draws and whoever gets a trick has to attempt it.
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Draw again, there is no limit. Just be honest with yourself about whether you are redrawing because the trick is genuinely wrong for the day, or because you are dodging something that scared you.