Do you detach the lines from the kite/handles and wind the lines on the line winders or keep everything attached and just wind the lines up on the handles? It's a bit of a pain always attaching lines the next time I go out so I'm thinking of just keeping everything attached and ready to go. Wondering what everyone else does.

Cheers, Ari

http://youtu.be/1FFVFffvXrQ

Watch the end of the video. This is how I do it.

Most of leave everything attached and wrap on the handles to the kite. I fly fix bridle and start by holding the handles together, gather fron the brake lines to the top of the handles and start wrapping from there. This applies a little brake while wrapping in a figure 8 to the kite.

My method:

The Winder Method

My lines and handles don't leave the kite until the lines are replaced. I have plastic winder cards stacked in the garage like cordwood.

how I wind

While my method is fast, Soliver's approach is likely less dependent on who touches the lines. If someone unwinds my lines with different hands and motion, the likelihood of a tangle increases. Happens all the time at JIBE when well meaning folks "help me" by winding my lines for me when I have a lot of kites out.

...sign a few autographs then right to the batjet and back to the batcave....and i'm quick about it because i leave my junk all attached. lay it down, wind it up, roll it up and JET!

i wind mine each time. Not because I prefer it, but because that is how the kite is most like when you receive it new. I often show customers how to power kite and I want to show them the knots and everything so they are successful their first trip out.

I fly only depower kites and never disconnect my lines. I wind them onto the bar then roll bar up into folded kite like a burrito.

Nobody has mentioned it yet so I will. PARAPACK! :D

No one has mentioned a cold beer yet either :evil:

or this hardware choice.

I keep lines attached on everything.

fixed bridle

after flying session, insert handles into large wool sock, figure 8 twist wrap lines around sock.



last 3-5 feet of lines, just wrap around handles.


zero twists this way, for easy next kiting deployment.

I came across somewhere a method of stuffing handles in a sock and then winding figure 8s right on the handles. Sock holds handles together. Haven't had any issues at all since i started doing it and its easy.

I use This with nearly every kite..

http://www.powerkiteforum.com/viewthread.php?tid=26505#pid25...