I just bought the 6m Samurai and I have a question about the brake adjust. What exactly does this do? Does it only affect launching and landing?
BTW, it's a kick ass stable flying kite!

Greetings!

Brake lines adjustment should ALL be done at the handles, not at the kite. Tweaking around with bridle knots to adjust angle of attack just makes no sense... why walk to the kite to adjust your lines?

What many of us do, (which, of course, makes it right, dammit! :frog: ), is attach a length of cord to the lower end of our handles. I use old parachute cord, any good line with enough tensile strength will do, but a thicker cord is more easily managed, as opposed to using a piece of flying line.

Then, tie stop-knots in this cord, as needed, to give you adjustment points for your brake lines. As your top lines stretch with use, you'll need, almost always, to let out more brake line. Brake lines should be adjusted out to the point where you can just manage to back the kite down onto the ground with full wrist flexure, thumbs pointed at the kite.

Flying with too much brake will interfere with upwind penetration, and also prevent you from flying to the zenith overhead to depower when parking or standing.

Different kites, especially extreme high-aspect ones, need to be flown with a slight application of brake, to keep them from overflying the window and luffing out.

Other kites, like the more forgiving Ozone Little Devil, like their brake lines way out, so they form a graceful curve behind the kite as it flies. Apply too much brake with these kites, and they pull like a truck, in an "always-on" power condition. Pull just a little brake, and they power up and pull harder during a run. I love this characteristic, of being able to "step on the gas" with a slight application of brake.

Anyway, that's my contribution... every kite's a little different, and certainly every pilot, too, so you must find your "sweet spot" as we all must do, grasshopper.

Thanks for the response Mike. I'm actually using the bar instead of the handles, so there's a center strap adjust for the brake lines. It doesn't seem to affect the flying because it's always slack. I guess it just changes the engagement point for landing the kite.