i am having trouble after water starting the kite seams to have no power and seams to stall when trying to fly a figure eight on the side i am traveling and tend to sink tryed sheeting in and out what the hell am idoing wrong any advice(flying airush 12m flow) cheers

Hi Darren,

Has this been happening in light-ish winds?

This will happen with the Waroo's in light winds if when you do the board start you are pulling right in on the bar. Does that sound similar to what you might be doing?

Basically, pulling in to much with the kite powered in light winds causes the back lines to get too tight and the kite to oversheet and it to stall. If the wind were stronger the kite would be far less susceptible to this and you would get away with it. To solve this depower the kite a bit to make it harder to get to the stalling point when pulling in on the bar. As you become more experienced you'll get a feel for all this and not pull in so much when doing the board start. To begin with you'll try to 'muscle' your way onto the board but try just bending your knees, roll your hips, point the board down wind on the rise and all this will help the kite out as much as possible in the light stuff.

If this is happening all the time, strong winds, light winds, the lot, check your back line lengths. Make them longer if you can (i.e if you have differing knots at the bridle side of the kite, add it to the furthest one away from the kite....not sure if the Airush kites have these or not) and try again.

Cheers,

James

hi James thanks for the info the winds were pretty light about 12 nots i think i am pulling on the bar as i get up so i should b keeping my outsteched so i can sheet in for more power if i need it when i am up and moving will give it a go cheers

I concur with James, I learnt the hard way as I used to pull the bar in all the time... very common beginner error!!
Also, the biggest mistake I was making was trying to go upwind before I had board (and apparent wind) speed.

Good luck with it Darren, as soon as you nail it once you'll have no probs in light winds!

rory

cheers hopping to get out and give it a go today wind permitting

If you trim it a bit more on the depower strap witch will bring the bar closer to you witch will HELp it stop doing that ! And when you riding the bar will be closer to you so you not looking like you sat on the LOO ! allows you to bring the bar closer to your back hip as well witch will help you fly up wind !

just need some bloody wind to try all this advice out more than lightly forgotten what i have learnt so far anyway its nearly been 4 weeks since i was out