So I tried something new...I put 50 ft-300lb paracord lines on my 2m legend just for the hekk of it..these things are short heavy and draggy....BUT....in the high winds I was flying in(enough lift to pull me off the groud at zenith) , the kite responded just like my 5.5 in lower wind..it was too fun especially because I was flying in a parking lot with no wheel drag..ssssmmmoooooth and fast...but the kite wasn't jumping all over the place it really just did what it was told.... it was like a sail...I was getting lots of upwind travel..I felt like I could go in any direction ..way fun....does anybody in Nor Cal know of a great big parking lot with no gravel and no poles?

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Take a recon flight in Google Earth. The light poles will have shadows even if the pic was taken from straight above. Can't tell about the rocks though. How bad could gravels be?

gravel just means more friction he's run concrete and is adicted to the speed and ride (me too)