Cheers all, Good point about the brakes Penny! I was probably heaving the anchors on whilst launching. Not clever Your comments inspired me to go scouting around for a pic, and I came across a US site (http://www.windpowersports.com/kites/pkd/buster.html) which includes an instruction manual pdf. Why my kite didn't have one, I can't imagine. The only bit of paper I had with it said little more than, "if you fly the kite downwind of you, it will work better." If you're still interested, there's a few pics of the buster 3.0 here: http://www.virtualkitestore.com/buster_mini_review.htm Thanks for