comments?? take it easy on me, I'm just a rookie :P

pintofpale said...

Not Bad! Try sheeting out after you have dived your kite when water starting so your kite will fly back up and generate some constant pull rather than oversheet looking for the power which will stall the kite. Once you are up and planing you can lean back a bit..

Thanks for the advice :D
Would you mind telling me what is "sheeting out"?? English is my second language so I don't know some terms :P

Keep it in the sweet spot!

Before I go out on the board, I sometimes body drag for a bit and purposefully pull the bar all the way in to see if I can oversheet and stall the kite.

You will know that the kite is stalling because you wont feel much power from the kite and if you let the bar out a little, it will power up. Or it will simply fall backwards out of the sky and land on its trailing edge.

If I start to feel that the kite is oversheeting, I pull on a bit of depower and test it again.

Once it stops doing this, I can then pull the bar all the way in to get maximum power without stalling the kite.

The other thing I check for is if the kite can fly too far forwards out of the window and falling forwards out the sky "hindenburg".

That means my front lines are too short and I can either let out my depower to increase the front line length or if there is nothing more to gain from the depower rope, I land the kite and tighten up the back lines by moving them up a knot on the kite.

This will then allow me to let go of the bar without the kite sheeting out too much and falling forwards and out of the sky.

Its all about correctly rigging your lines and testing the rig setup prior to going out.

Then I get my board and have a blast!

Don't know if what I have said is correct, (and please let me know if not as I am still on the beginner side of intermediate) but that is what I do.

I also have noticed alot of people launching their kite while pointing away from the water. Through the Windsup Kite School, we were taught to have the kite launched towards the water as if it powers up, it will pull you towards the sea and not into the sand dunes, houses and people.

Not trying to have a go at anyone who does it differently as these people have been kiting alot longer than I but I think the logic behind launching and landing towards the water is sound and wanted to share a bit of advice I was given.

Hope that helps and sorry for the long post... its kind of quiet at work at the moment!

Luke.

Don't feel so bad GJOchoa, 11 years in and i still kite like that.

Not bad, this was the only better picture of the poo stance I could find:

high as a kite said...

Don't feel so bad GJOchoa, 11 years in and i still kite like that.

Hey I resemble that remark too!

thanks for the comments and advices