cbabbman

Just give it up Kent... Sit for all your business...

Kent... this is a great idea.. CONGRATS! December 19, 10:25am

I totally agree that someone needs to do a video with Rush - Hemispheres as the background music!

The advice of always winding your own lines is very valid. I'm a lefty and always hold the winder in my left hand, both for winding and unwinding. I let a righty wind my lines once ans spent a good 1/2 hr untwisting my lines. As for lines ending up being different lengths at the end of a wind, I gave up on that and just accept it as part of life. I'm usually off by an inch or so at the end which I attribute to the lines crossing over each other on the winder. Also, when I finally connect my kite up, I ALWAYS set it up with the tips down and forward of the leading edge. This way, there is tension on the top of the kite which helps me unwind anything left over from the setup process. As mentioned above, it is NEVER as bad as it may initially seem and a few wists of the handles takes care of 99% of any problems I have. Also, I rarely ever have to walk back to the kite to stand it up again before flying which to me, is the ULTIMATE walk of shame. For me, I have 2 pet peeves though. I hate the crazy 8 winders as the lines constantly unwind irregularly and snag as I unwind. Sometimes I have to pull the line off by hand as I walk rather than just walking and allowing the line to fall off the winder. It doesn't add much more than seconds to my setup but is irritating. The laser pro winders on the other hand do not do this to me. Because of the larks heading of the top and bottom set, there are times when the lines fall through each other when I initially undo the bungee to connect to my handles. This is also a pain and for some reason, I have real trouble visualizing the untangling process as usually one side of my pair has 5 or 6 twists in them that has to be undone before winding the handles through each other to straighten it all out. Again, this only adds a min or so to my setup time so I just deal with it. In all, by adopting a consistent and unthinking process for setup and tear down, these problem are minimal and setup time only a few mins. For all my Ozone power kites, I simple parapack my lines and have never had a single issue with them... ever. Now once... and ONLY once, I wrapped my lines around my handles because I was in a hurry and it was a spectacular catastrophe as my lines were so unbelievably twisted that it took over an hour to untangle. Never again will I deviate from my ritual.

Thanks for all the photos...they confirm that I got it right. Right after I left my last message, I figured it all out and then spent the next couple of hours taking pics of it and all the rest of my kites... Here's The Deca

I larks head top and bottom to each other on each side both at the kite end and handle end. I then take each pair, stick a finger between them and start winding. When unwinding, I hold the winder in the same hand, unwind from the handles to the kite, take the pairs and stretch them out at arms length as mentioned above. Never had a problem in the year I've been flying by doing it that way.

thanks for the pics... I don't know why pictures are so deceiving on this thing... Let me ask the question this way. I have a Deca UL which is very similar to the deca 6 as far as I can tell. I have a logo and kite name on the sail. The permanent vertical spars are on the opposite side of the sail from the logo. I have a tangle of bridle that no matter which way I seem to put it, looks twisted... 1) Which side ends up being the front of the kite facing me as I fly? Logo side or vertical spar side? 2) Which side of the kite gets the spars that run to the wingtips? (silver tipped spars) Same side as the vertical spars or opposite side? 3) Does the curved long spar go on the back side of the kite? 4) When the kite is facing me, should the outside wingtips be pointed towards me or away from me? Maybe this will get me going in the right direction. I had this thing together once but I'd like to be sure I have it right this time.. Thanks!

mainly the assembly instructions. If anyone has a good shot of one put together, it would be helpful.

Does anyone have a Deca Synergy manual they could post? I recently acquired one and would like to have it as a reference.. Thanks!

I've used Cool Edit for about 7 years now... they were purchased by Adobe about 2 years ago and the program is now called Audition. Awesome program...

I do... I use them on everything, I like the control and I like only packing 1 set of handles..

I didn't go quite that far but I have started using my Blast handles to fly all my Revs... longer than the standard 1.5 handles and much longer than the speed series... I find that they give me much better control over all my Revs... and one consistant thing amongst all of them... Now, if there was only a way to get rid of all the knots at the handles as that's where I have all my problems...

I love my 2-4... especially when winds are marginal and I still want some decent pull.. I do have to say that living in Chicago with the crappy winds we get, I have become adept at flying something in the low winds... usually my 1.5 with the SUL rods in it... Of course, having a variey of Revs to fly helps out a lot....

I got my sonic vented a couple of weeks ago... I've had the winds to fly it in about 5 times now and I am loving it... in the heavier winds, it really doesn't have much pull but is a quick as hell and great fun.... For precision, I'm going to have to get a vented 1.5 Here it is below... thanks to Lolly for the custom sail... it looks awesome in the sky.. A vented Blast? That would defeat the purpose!

Bat kite.... black vinyl with black & white eyes... made bloodshot with a red crayon...lots of string... lots of it... the higher you put it up the better it was... to the point where you couldn't even see it any more..... When I go to the park that I used to fly at, I can't believe that we even tried let alone succeded... it's so small... When my 4 year old saw Mary Poppins, she had to fly one... of course, me being me, I had to get one too... a 2 line Premiere Vision.... within 10 seconds, I was done... Now it's a couple of deltas, 5 revolutions and 3 ozones.... and I'm not done yet...