A couple nasty little spills. I would think he would be getting more float from a PL Twister 5.5m in 15-20k wind? Is he just not stearing his kite
properly in the window?
so a paraglider using a 22m for normal jumping off a mountain is too big? sorry this is one of those "I should keep my mouth shut" moments.BreakingWind - 12-6-2016 at 10:41 PM
I kinda sense an insult to my question?bigkid - 12-6-2016 at 10:52 PM
just a pet peeve of mine to the get some air from a little kite. its a kite not a parachute. its not designed to get air, just the opposite.
would 30 feet of air with a 2.9m be better? I think the 30 foot fall on your right shoulder as your chest rips in half and collapse your left lung
would be the highlight of the day. just reminiscing.......Bladerunner - 13-6-2016 at 04:09 PM
There is no such thing as float under a 5m kite.
You are correct that he is going about it all wrong. The only way to avoid dropping like that is to redirect the kite and keep it moving fast. Or a
running pendulum jump with redirect. Skills that very few of us have. ssayre - 13-6-2016 at 04:21 PM
Don't worry Jeff can get grumpy but always has our best interest at heart.
Here is one of our own. pongnut. Keep in mind he is very skilled and it's still taking a calculated high risk. But it gives you an idea of what a
jump should look like.
riffclown - 13-6-2016 at 06:37 PM
First WELCOME to PKF. FWIW, there's no insult to the question.. It's more along the lines of, jumping is not the smart place to start and minimum
kite size is at least 5M. The main concern here is we want everyone to enjoy the power kiting safely. We get individuals that join to
ask about jumping because it looks cool. They invariably put up videos to someone getting hurt by DOING IT WRONG or worse getting trashed even though
they did it right which only can serve to hurt power kiting in general.
Don't get me wrong, there's absolutely nothing wrong with gaining the expert level of ability needed to jump with some margin of safety BUT, as a new
member to the PKF community, please take a few minutes and consider the overall impact to power kiting.. We want the beaches and the parks to stay
open to our flying,, Showing some poor guy getting dragged around only gives those who want to restrict our sport extra ammunition to do so. It's not
personal. We do have a section of the forums dedicated to jumping and if that's your main interest, I'd like to direct you there where some of the
EXPERTS can pass on their wisdom.
By the same token, for most of us the wisdom in jumping is NOT jumping. The kite skills it takes to safely jump are exponentially far beyond the
skills it takes to get airborne in the first place.. One would need to learn everything about the loft of the kite, redirection to keep the kite from
dumping you and how to land without inspecting the inside of your femur. Most of us would prefer not to have the 10 seconds of fame on TrueTV. It
doesn't take a parachute to sky dive.. It does however require one to sky dive twice.Wind_dog - 13-6-2016 at 06:42 PM
I think I figured it out.
If you really want to jump with kites, I mean really jump, do it over water.
Much more forgiving on the landing.
