SparkieRob

The glide I can get on my SUL is worth the price of admission. Gliding 100 meters over to people who are saying "what's that?" when your on your 30 footers really leaves them gobsmacked!!!

The planter box area for shrubs and trees in a carpark are great for using a stake to set up.

I've been doing a fair bit of urban/street kiting on my Revs recently and I thought I might be able to share some tips. Feel free to chime in with what works for you. Pick your area. Clean air isn't important, in fact it adds an element of excitement. Cars and people MUST be considered, law suits can eat up future kite purchases. Consider street lights if going out at night. Obstacles like trees, shrubs can be detrimental but signs, bike racks and playground equipment are a plus! It never hurts to have a look around before you pull any gear out. Pick your equipment. Buildings can both cause a wind shadow and a wind funnel. Distances of free space will affect your line length. Pick your time. Watch out for midnight watering schedules. Or even early morning deliveries. Most importantly is to be safe about it.

Who needs Magic Sticks when I've got...... .... Magic Fence!!

Nice job on the website. Those marbles sure look good on my retina display!

Kite size too, B2 to 1.5 to Rev1.

Line size would come into it too. I can pull a kite around in much higher winds on my 30's than I can any other length. That and I'm pretty bad at guesstimating the actual speed. I've done it on a Std when it was upper Mid. Closest I can say without a anemometer. Challenge accepted though.

I'm pretty sure that's in one of the tutorials.

Must be magic ? In the big scheme if things, it takes me less than a second to swap handle orientation. So long as tops are tops and bottoms are bottoms. I equalise lines on a semi regular basis. Just my method. I respect the ways of everyone else. Do what works for you.

Whump: The act of cupping air with a sail.

I don't designate Left or Right on any of my handles or line sets.

I love the fact that from Std to XTRA you could have a set of 7 kites!

There is 4 in a set. Std. A little under Mid. A bit in between Mid and Vtd. And a little over Vtd. There is a thread in the Rev forum about them. I didn't like the look at first, they are growing on me though.

What I found to help make newly cut lines even is to use a measured distance with two stakes. Existing loops both over one end, line run up and around a stake then back. The distance between the stakes is half the finished length. Then with the cut ends, take them around the stake and use a texta (sharpie) and make both lines IN THE SAME SPOT close to the end of the open line. Put a little tension on when doing this. Then all you need to do is line them when knotting.

Couple of small bean bags, hand sized, filled with something weighty.

I've been mucking around on my indoor, and I can reliably get it to stall and float at the apex of an up and over. Instead of pulling down for drive, I push up just before it hits the apex. Beautiful floats. Time it right and is hits a point of no movement at all. Not even a little. You can wait for it to float down under its own gravity or a quick tug and your away again!

Going that close, you could experiment by putting some pigtails on the top and bottom of your verts and attach to that, indoor style!

Do it Do it.

With everything kiting, practice makes perfect. And, you will nail it with no-one watching.

Nice.

Thanks! Those are mine. I Designed them and had them machined. It costs me about $16.50 a set (2) at the moment. We are working on lowering the fabrication cost to try to get that to the $12 range. I only use them on the bottom since I've never snagged the top, and it's cheaper that way . At the risk of sounding forward, got a photo?

The wind seems pretty slow at times, until you're trying to outrun it to keep some pressure on the sail. Or you try with any vented sail! My first 360 try was on 80' strings and I wasn't prepared for how mushy the feel was so I RAN that sucker round!

A reverse 360 is bloody awesome to do, you just want to keep it going. It's fairly easy to do, just looks tricky. Initiate an inverted side slide, apply brake to tailing wing, as the wing comes up progressively pull top wing in. Feather brakes on both wings as you go round. I've tried to put a little drive into the bottom (leading) wing as I put brake into the trailing wing but couldn't get that to work.

Get some practice in and walking them is dead easy!

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