snapped my leash on suicide mode, watched my kite float over the café at south beach, bar wrapped around a utes roof rack and landed perfectly in bay 4 at the cafes car park, thanks to the young bloke in the landcruiser( kiter?) who grabbed it, sorry I was a bit sharp with you as I didn't want it to power up and wrap some lines around you, cheers cauncy

I ride sans death-leash.

Never had a runaway.

Go figure .

lol.

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cauncy said..
snapped my leash on suicide mode, watched my kite float over the café

I'm picturing you with your cheap-arse Chinese death-leash fixed on suicide mode. (Appropiate term)

As you pull the trigger, the piece-of-sh1t goes PING ...

and you watch the kite float over the cafe, in complete surprise, mouth agape.

lol.

Don't feel too foolish. You're not the first.

This is what happens when you rely on a flawed system of kite management that is second-rate and the INDUSTRY's shame.

Photos or it never happened

lol. ^^^

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waveslave said...
I ride sans death-leash.

Am I missing something here? What is "sans" death leash.
I'm surprised I need to ask. I know your stance on leashes slave.

"Sans" is french for "without"

Iv lost my kite a few time from it unclipping. And after a wile they bend out. What are everyones preferred leash. I ride airush but after a wile they go to ****. Any suggestions?

I was self launching in fairly strong gusty winds using a second safety leash attached to an old rusty dumptruck that was on the beach

It was an old kite I had not used for ages and the lines needed some adjusting

The kite fell from the sky and powered up just before it hit the ground

I thought I would be ok because I was securely attached to a dumptruck [it wasn't going anywhere]

I braced myself as the kite powered up

I was JOLTED in the air,then PING the safety leash snapped

I landed 15m down the beach and releashed the kite

NEVER use a safety leash to tie off to self launch in strong winds

I was surprised at how easy it snapped

Use a proper rated sling or rope that has a loop spliced in both ends with a rated D shakel or carabina

And attach it to something strong

Eg coconut tree,fence post,4WD,large timber boat,rusty dumptruck

Don,t attach it to a large log on the beach as my mate it once

His kite went cruising down the beach draggin the log attached to it as he was walking back to hook up

He had to run after it

And be sure you have pulled the depower strap

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cauncy said..
snapped my leash on suicide mode, watched my kite float over the café

I'm picturing you with your cheap-arse Chinese death-leash fixed on suicide mode. (Appropiate term)

As you pull the trigger, the piece-of-sh1t goes PING ...

and you watch the kite float over the cafe, in complete surprise, mouth agape.

lol.

Don't feel too foolish. You're not the first.

This is what happens when you rely on a flawed system of kite management that is second-rate and the INDUSTRY's shame.

You forgot the hands on the head stance, yeh pretty sure I did the rest, been kiting for a good while and it was a 1st for me

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gokid said...
I was self launching in fairly strong gusty winds using a second safety leash attached to an old rusty dumptruck that was on the beach

It was an old kite I had not used for ages and the lines needed some adjusting

The kite fell from the sky and powered up just before it hit the ground

I thought I would be ok because I was securely attached to a dumptruck [it wasn't going anywhere]

I braced myself as the kite powered up

I was JOLTED in the air,then PING the safety leash snapped

I landed 15m down the beach and releashed the kite

NEVER use a safety leash to tie off to self launch in strong winds

I was surprised at how easy it snapped

Use a proper rated sling or rope that has a loop spliced in both ends with a rated D shakel or carabina

And attach it to something strong

Eg coconut tree,fence post,4WD,large timber boat,rusty dumptruck

Don,t attach it to a large log on the beach as my mate it once

His kite went cruising down the beach draggin the log attached to it as he was walking back to hook up

He had to run after it

And be sure you have pulled the depower strap

Hey gokid, are you attaching from the dump truck to yourself ie back of harness and then Launching your kite? Or I am reading this wrong ! Just cause it sounds super dangerous

The dumptruck was attached to the chicken loop with the safety leash

I had two safety leashes

Was far from ideal wind and the bar and lines were the first time I had used them with this old kite

Was a bit sketchy

I think at the time I had lost my sling and D shackel

Left it on the beach after packing up so just used my spare safety leash instead

The piont of my story is don,t use a safety leash instead of a sling and D shackel






Set up the kite as normal with the bar and lines

Attach the sling with D shackel between a coconut tree and the chicken loop

Walk to the kite and stand it on it windtip,let go

Kite will just bounce a bit but won,t go anywhere,it may just go forward or backward a little till it sits at the edge of the wind window

Walk back to the bar and attach the kite to your harness and attach the safety leash as normal whist the kite is still attached to the coconut tree

Bring the kite into the air

Fly the kite for a bit whist still attached to the co**** tree and check that everything is good,eg no crossed over lines

Unhook the D shackel from your chicken loop

And go kiting

I have kited a lot in strong winds on isolated beaches with only 1 or 2 other kiting mates when a small kite is the only option and nobody wants to sit on the beach and only

a third world hospital to patch you up if things go wrong

Can launch your 2 mates as normal but you don,t want to be holding your kite with one hand trying to launch your mate in really strong wind,is dangerous and sitting your

kite on the beach and self launching as most kiters here on the Sunhine Coast do is OK in light to moderate wind but is not an option in strong winds

The first person to finnish kiting walks up the beach attaches the D shackel to his chicken loop,lowers the kite down till the wingtip is on the beach,unhooks the kite from

his harness and his own safety leash and walks to the kite,drops the kite

The only problem with this method is if you are kiting in cross offshore wind and the wind is so strong you can not walk up the beach to get to the sling and D

shackel as happened once

Bringing the kite to 12 o,clock and walking up the beach was not an option

Gokid,

curious...why do you launch that way rather than a standard self launch? the statement that 'self launching is not an option in strong winds' confuses me a little.

me too !!~!

i use the same method when on beaches with sharp shells. Slide self launch trashes kites if the "beach" is crap.

I should of written ,not a safe option

I self launch sitting the kite on the beach like most people

By strong winds I mean, leaving your kite on the beach is not an option

it will get blown away unless it has a big sandbag on it

and the big grains of sand are flying stinging your legs

you need to find a sheltered place just to pump up your kite

or when its supa gusty

Or when its a sketchy narrow beach with rocks downwind

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kemp90 said..
Iv lost my kite a few time from it unclipping. And after a wile they bend out. What are everyones preferred leash. I ride airush but after a wile they go to ****. Any suggestions?

Slingshot have solid clips

Like this!!

Stockton trees have never been the same since you left

Haha! Thats in kingscliff. I hadn't done it in years and I did it twice in two days. Looks like your having a blast, travelling the world!