I would contact the seller about that safety leash snapping! The kite is still pretty new. That said, it happened with my 3 line trainer after it was
older. I looked at it as another form of safety since it hit pretty hard when it snapped?
Folks are right about learning how to handle gusts with pilot control being the goal. While getting familiar with the kite static is extremely
important everything changes when you are in motion.
You have options when in motion. " Keep it low and GO ! " In motion with the kite set at the edge of the window you can truly feel the effect of
depower! FAR MORE than static. Teaching yourself to push the bar out not pull it in becomes a whole lot more important to absorb gusts with depower in
motion. If you have a decent sized location you can absorb a gust by running down wind.
With time you will get in tune with the wind and sense changes coming on.
If you get lofted with a small kite you are in big trouble. Better pilots than I am can create the extra lift needed by flying the kite fast or
looping to keep apparent Wind in the kite. Soon as a small kite slows down you will drop like a rock.
It's different with a larger depower. Flysurfer used to say in their manual that if you are lofted to relax and trust in their paraglide technology.
The couple of times I have been lofted I was under a 10.8m Reactor. When the kite was nicely overhead I used the extra second to prepare to separate
from the kite on landing. ( rather than ride off like a hero
)
Kites: 2.5m Profoil , Quadrifoil XL kitesurfer, NPW 5 Danger.
Flexifoil: 1.7m Sting, 4.9m Blade 3, 9m Blade 2.
Flysurfer : 19m Speed 2 SA, 7m Pulse
Peter Lynn :18m Phantom, 15m Synergy, 10m Synergy, 1200 Farc, 460 Sarc, 130 Tarc, 5m Peel, 4.2m , 6.4, 8.5 C-Quads, 3.5 LS2 single skin.
Rides: Flexi / P.L. Frankin'Buggy , Shaped + straight skiis, sand skis, Coyote blades. Core 95 ATB. RKB R2 ATB .
Ken (K2)
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