Sail Tensioners (Battens?) for Indoor Kites on Full Size Kites

[Conware717]

Hi All,

A bit of a random question here, but I recently watched John Barresi's tutorial on how to assemble an indoor kite (I don't have one, but I was just curious on if it would be any different than a regular kite) and I saw that that kite had sail tensioners which ran from the nose to the standoffs (battens?). I assume that these tensioners served the purpose of holding the sail tight for better light wind performance (obviously good for an indoor kite), which got me wondering: Wouldn't adding these sail tensioners to a full size kite built for tricking expand the lower wind limit of the kite? Or is there something I'm missing? Has anybody tried to add these components to a full size kite? If so, how did it affect the kite?

Thanks for your time.

[Paul LaMasters]

Jeff Howard's "wren"?

[makatakam]

  On 5/25/2020 at 6:13 PM, Conware717 said:

John Barresi's tutorial on how to assemble an indoor kite

Expand  

The Kaiju? White with blue tips?