Watch this video for the best way to rig your kite. Fastest, simplest and foolproof system, walk your lines once!

Love it! Great method for laying out the lines.

Great way to do it..

Just have to remember to take off and land the same way (or you might be in for a surprise when you tug the safety line to bring down the leading edge landing on the opposing side).

Great way to rig lines, IMO best way for beginners is downwind as you can see up your lines before you attempt to launch.
Used the flag out on either side for years when I used an Ozone bar, great for safe landings when kiting alone.
Is this shot at Middle Rock/Lake Cathie beach?
Looks familiar

Nice one steve
if I may be critical
next clip I'd like to see a glimpse of a bikini
preferably not on you
cheers

What are the thoughts on tying the inside and outside lines in pairs, then running them out. Does this cause twisting? I have been doing it for years with no problems, and still seems to be the quickest and stops the ends getting tangled up.

Also does it really matter which side you put the safety line, isn't this overthinking it a bit? I don't plan on landing kite using the safety, but if needed the kite lands on its leading edge one way or the other.

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Peahi said..
What are the thoughts on tying the inside and outside lines in pairs, then running them out. Does this cause twisting? I have been doing it for years with no problems, and still seems to be the quickest and stops the ends getting tangled up.

Also does it really matter which side you put the safety line, isn't this overthinking it a bit? I don't plan on landing kite using the safety, but if needed the kite lands on its leading edge one way or the other.

On my low V bars, no dramas. I do not release safety in moderate wind, I lower the kite, de-power and give the top front line a yank. Pulls it straight down onto the leading edge.

Recently got a duotone rebel with a high V bar and that option is gone. Steve's recommendation on using the safety line when attached on front top is a great idea.

I use the safety release all the time when no other kiters are around in strong winds. Only takes me an extra 30 seconds to clean up lines with no risk.

As above. This method doesn't work properly for the North/Duotone click bar as the auto spin to untwist feature relies on it being set up without twists in the first place.

Nice video though.

nice video.

Nice vid. Been doing this method for years and it's never failed me. As someone who has a wave riding setup with a sliding ring I have to release to safety when unhooking myself from the kite and it makes self landing even in strong winds a piece of cake. In strong winds the kite won't always sit nicely and have the nose come down, but at least if you are walking a bit up wind the kite will roll over and not try and relaunch and you can walk up your line to retrieve the kite. Nice job on the clip Steve and that beach sure looks nice :)

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bigtone667 said..
Great way to do it..

Just have to remember to take off and land the same way (or you might be in for a surprise when you tug the safety line to bring down the leading edge landing on the opposing side).

You can take off from either side of the wind window, the key point, which will be explained in this weeks video, is to rig for your landing direction.

At the beach in the video we downwider about 6klms, we do not always finish together, and I'm often last because I milk every break and sandbar along the way. So I need a simple foolproof way to self land. The beach is called 7 mile and its in Lennox Head, we are allowed to drive on it so we take a 4WD with 4-5 crew and park it up the beach then go get it afterwards (or do another and retrieve with a 3rd), sometimes a cooperative partner will drive the vehicle back while we kite.

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Peahi said..
What are the thoughts on tying the inside and outside lines in pairs, then running them out. Does this cause twisting? I have been doing it for years with no problems, and still seems to be the quickest and stops the ends getting tangled up.

Also does it really matter which side you put the safety line, isn't this overthinking it a bit? I don't plan on landing kite using the safety, but if needed the kite lands on its leading edge one way or the other.

Sounds complicated and very unnecessary? By connecting your front lines first, you only have the rear lines to connect, once you walk them out as shown in the video, and you only walk once. The rear lines are easy to separate from the fronts when you get close to the kite because the fronts are connected and you are behind the kite and protected from much of the wind.

Watch the video again, I think you missed the point about why I connect which front line to which side of the kite. If your lines are not numbered like Ozone lines and kite bridles, then just mark your front flagging line with a black permanent ink pen.

The other point about using the safety to self-land is that its use becomes completely normal and familiar so that when you need to use it in an emergency, there is ZERO hesitation, you have trained yourself to know exactly where it is and to have the confidence to know exactly what it will do.