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If your kite flys high up into the sky - shorten the distance your bar sides away. .........Your kite needs to be tuned with no chance of making a negative angle of attack, if you get my drift.
This is the tip i would endorse.
If the bar can only slide to a certain point at which the kite sits correctly (on a 5 line set-up) then it will sit on the beach and not fly up.
(if i only walk up to the kite holding the 5th line it flys around upside down looking like a bloody great albatross.)
From there, i hold all 5 lines at that length and walk up the lines hand over hand. The kite stays there. too easy.
dunno how it'd go in 50 knots but i have practiced this method in lower winds without incident.
securing the fifth line in high wind would be an advantage, but i don't know that i would use a board covered in sand, (the lack of sand at my beaches dosn't help either.)
my 2c
.. hmm maybe I should just attach it to that?
