Words of wisdom by Bas Koole (http://www.baskoole.com):

The Nose Slide is a trick that you don’t see that much on the water, that’s because you need pretty flat water for it. To perform the trick good, a really long slide with speed, you need to take off your fins. The trick comes from wakeboarding and we know it in the kiteboarding scene from Lou Wainman and Andre Phillip.

The Nose Press is not hard to do, the two things you need is speed and balance. Before you start practicing the trick make sure you feel comfortable with riding without fins, you will feel like your board is really slippery and you really need to ride on the rail of the board.

Make sure you have a lot of speed and a place with some flat water.

Set your kite at an angle of 45 degrees and start turning the board to toeside. Instead of sliding the board over the water you bring the tail of the board up in the air, by pulling your back feet up. At the same moment you push your nose into the water and put your weight on your front leg.

Now it is time to balance, to keep your board at an angle of 90 degrees in the water. So actually you are now riding on the rail of the nose of your board. You can keep this position for a long time, as long as you can keep your balance and pressure in the kite.

Before you lose too much speed you pop or slide back to a heelside position. Sometimes it is easier to let the board go into toeside, but most of the time this happens because you don’t have control enough to pop or slide back to heelside. Off course it depends on what you prefer to do, go to toeside or to heelside, it’s all up to you!