I went bargain basement on my kite and got a used C style kite that is not even in production any longer. The first two times I was out I had a helper to flip the kite over and help with the relaunch. I was excited to do it myself however so the other day I went out to the frozen lake and went to town. After about 45 minutes of trying all sorts of different things to get the kite to launch finally a snowmobiler came by and helped me. It was embarrassing but at least I got to board for a while till I crashed again and then spent the last hour before darkness set in trying to figure out the relaunch.
I guess it's time for another lesson. Here is what I found on YouTube/ Vimeo:
This guy makes it look easy but I don't have a nice kite like that one:
This guy does a good job and launches in his boots then puts his board on. I might have to try that. It gives him the freedom to walk around moving his kite into the window (Again, having trim on your kite would be handy:
Pretty simple video- I tried pulling on the line to fold the kite in two but never actually got the kite to fold in half. Going to try this approach next time out:
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