Guys,
I have been kiting two years now and keen to start trying unhooked stuff.
I have a 11m North Neo which i love, but i find that when i unhook it gets yanked out of my hands and I struggle to hold it with the bar pressure. Is this normal for unhooked and do i just need to man up a bit and hold on longer, or is the neo not a great kite for unhooked stuff?
Cheers
Ollie

if you and your kite and board are travelling in the same direction at the same speed, how many kgs of pressure are on the lines?

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OllieTT said..
Guys,
I have been kiting two years now and keen to start trying unhooked stuff.
I have a 11m North Neo which i love, but i find that when i unhook it gets yanked out of my hands and I struggle to hold it with the bar pressure. Is this normal for unhooked and do i just need to man up a bit and hold on longer, or is the neo not a great kite for unhooked stuff?
Cheers
Ollie

Trim your kite so you ride with the bar all the way in, ride towards the kite unhook and hook back in get use to the movement, you can play with your edge a bit unhooked and feel how quickly you can build tension and power, understand it. Ride towards the kite to kill the power.

Then throw your most confidant hooked in trick, unhooked.

come off your edge momentarily unhook load and pop throw ya trick.

Just got to man up bro and trim you kite a little. You can unhook on any kite. My kite I learnt to unhook on was a rebel. And don't lunch your kite, keep it at 45.

Also do not wait too long, this is what most do wrong starting out. Bear off slightly, unhook, load & pop, trick, land downwind & hook back in, cruise upwind. I would estimate a simple railey would just take 4-5 seconds from the moment you unhook & hook back in.

The kite is fine. Only when you get to more advanced tricks line slack becomes critical which is typically better on C kites.

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Woott said...
Also do not wait too long, this is what most do wrong starting out. Bear off slightly, unhook, load & pop, trick, land downwind & hook back in, cruise upwind. I would estimate a simple railey would just take 4-5 seconds from the moment you unhook & hook back in.

The kite is fine. Only when you get to more advanced tricks line slack becomes critical which is typically better on C kites.

This it true, you see people all the time unhook, try and get more speed, then pop. But you have too much power and that makes it hard to hold an edge.

My bad habit is raising the kite and looping unhooked.

I sometimes land crazy **** and ride away like a pro.

But it's always unintentional.

Sometimes I crash - and get skull dragged like a noob on a 2003 Naish Boxer.