HI ALL IM RATHER NEW TO THE SPORT ...GOT MY KITE ABOUT A WEEK AGO.... HAD THE HONOR OF FLYING IT THE WEEKEND... A BIT SCARY... FLEW IT AGAIN TODAY AND ITS NOW REALY GROWING ON ME... I HAVE THE TWISTER 2R 4.1 ...

DONT KNOW IF ITS A GOOD KITE OR A BAD MATRES HOPE SOME OF THE MORE EXPERIANCED PPL COULD INFORM ME ON THAT ?

THEN I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE KITE'S BEHAVIOR... WHEN I LAUNCH IT IT GOES UP TO ZENITH OVER MY HEAD AND DIES ....LITRELAY DROPS OUT OF THE SKY LIKE A BRICK... DOES IT REQUIRE TUNING?


PLZ HELP


THX TROY LEE FROM SOUF EFFRICA... WHERE THE LIONS ROAM FREE....:wee:

Welcome! You've found just the right place for your new addiction. Even better, there's a good handful of Twister fans/fliers here so you're gonna get all kinds of kite-specific tips here. I'll offer this - the control will become second nature to you over tim, just keep flying. When the kite is shooting up to the zenith (or anywhere along the edge of the window for that matter) just feed a little brake input evenly to both lines and it'll prevent it from overshooting. Essentially what happens here sis the kite uses its momentum to over fly, then exposing the top surface to the wind which slaps it down and generally makes messes of things.

kewl thanx i gues like every thing itcomes with practice....which comes with failure and pain be it physical(which i must say im feeling at the moment) or emotional (which i felt afte the kite droped to the ground like a rock) lol im starting off with the standerd procedure following the un-writen manual... step one set up kit step 2 try and launch kite....(urgh!!!) step 3 crash kite .... step 4 launch kite again(after detangling al the ropes....) step 5 get my arse draged across the socer field ..... o so much funn it should be ilegal!!!:tumble:

Welcome!

You've got Ced in S.A. too, he's on the arcusers.net if you want to get on the water ...!

welcome!!!! its a very addictive sport isnt it.. i have the same kite and it did the same thing to me what i did is i tie another knot about an inch behind the original knot on the handle line top (power line) ...hook up your line from the kite behind your new knot on ur handles and hang on lol it will fly wayyyyyy better at least mine did

oh make sure u do it on both handles in the same spot (equal)

Go to www.coastalwindsports.com and read what Angus has put together for tutorials. It will help you a lot.

www.kitesurfingschool.org as well .