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Nybörjarkompis needs help!
Tjenare, min kompis och jag ska börja kitesurfa, och nu är vi mer ut av vindsurfare. Men!
Vi vet att SLE och BOW kites is the safetyshit. Men han läste på ett amerikanskt forum där huvudinlägget såg ut så här:
In the wake of recent and past news of kite accidents, I thought it could be relevant to have some discussion about the safety of C-Kites vs. Bow/SLEs (or any version of a kite with bar-release de-power).I find that as the sport continues to grow, and more people are getting into it, the used kite market is becoming more and more saturated with all kinds of different kites for people new to the sport to choose from, and they can get confused about what to buy, often lured by the cheapest (but certainly not safest) option.
In the past 3 weeks, I have met 3 new kiters, who have purchased used C-kites as their first kites, because they could pick them up so cheaply. All three of these kiters had already taken lessons, and all three of them were surprised when I told them about the differences in safety between the C-kites they bought (for around $200 each) and newer de-power Bow/SLE kites – they had not been given any, or at least did not remember getting any, encouragement from their instructors to buy a safer, de-power Bow/SLE kite.
Therefore, I ask: Do we, as a kite-surfing community, think we have a responsibility to educate people, interested in the sport, and those just getting into it, about the vast improvement in safety of the newer model (post-2006) Bow/SLE over older style C-kites?
Och han fick ett svar:
You answered your own question by mis-informing everyone on this forum with your own opinion on the safety systems on current kites …. that Bow kites have safer safety systems than C-kites….. Mate if it does not have a 5th line, next time your down the beach and overpowered to the point where you think you may need to engage your actual ”Bow’s” safety system, ie the single flagging safety line that you probably don’t even have attached, Go ahead and do it for me while I engage my 5th line C-kites system and safely and walk/swim back to the beach while you battle the rolling, flipping monster on the end of your line that will not be able to re-launch without re-rigging…. Now tell me, which is safer the Bow line that goes into a death spiral ( so no-one bothers to hook the safety up) or the 5th line C-kite that has a higher wind range than the bow… and is always able to engage the safety to complete depower and relaunch in a matter of seconds if required…..The bow has a higher wind range you say…. well tell me why the pro bow riders allways use a smaller kite when they unhook compared to the c-kiters?
SO , hat’s off to your mates for buying 5th line c-kites, they must have their heads on straight and be thinking correctly and not captured by some mystical mis-informed FAD that you have become a victim of….. If you don’t believe me then tell everyong why the top 10 PKRA riders aren’t all on bows ?
By the way, I have been riding for 8 years, and try bow / SLE and c-kites regularly, the depower they offer hooked in is the same as any descent brand 5th line C-kite of the same year model but without the safety / comfort of the 5th line safety
.They have their pro’s and cons… but I chose a 5th line c-kite because I know that they actually offer better safety than a single flagging line bow.”
Och han fick ett svar som styrktes:
”I can echo this from a couple of weeks ago. 99% of the time my SLE’s are great but this time the wind picked up as I was just coming in to land AND it happened in a nanosecond. From nicely powered to being hauled up the beach wanting to ditch the ”monster”. Leash was attached to a mini-5th line style safety which is fine, as I say, 99% of the time. As I was way overpowered I decided to try and swap the leash over to the o’**** rear line. Just as I got the clip on, the kite whipped across the window and flung me through
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