Scudley - I think sails are a much thicker and more rigid material than the Chikara-whatever kites are made from. The sail on my Kitewing creases if you fold it ... I roll it up to store it and don't put stuff on it in the car. My Rebble must be pushing 5 or 6 years old, and it's still fine ...

I'm a wrapper myself. Almost exactly like Acampbell, but I leave the kite in the bag while I unwind and stake the handles. I wrap the lines in a figure 8 around where the kite killers are wrapped around the handles while holding the handles at the bottom. It doesn't matter what hand you hold the handles in as long as the lines unwind off the same end they wound on around. Off is off. The twisty loops encountered by kamikuza probably occurred by not letting those twists just wind up on the handles. If you grip the lines very tightly while you wind, you push the naturally occurring twists to the kite end of the lines where they build up. Just let those twists wind up and they will disappear when you unwind.

If I wound them up loose, I got even worse twists ... I'll try it out on the Rev

What I'm saying is to let the twists slip through your fingers but do indeed keep the lines tight wrapping around the handles. You can feel the twists slide up to your fingers and you can either let them slip through or keep pushing them to the end. If the lines are attached to the kite then the twists don't have anywhere to go but pile up at the end then the lines seem to have a mind of their own. The twists are harmless if you let them wind up onto the handles as you go.

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