I totally understand getting tangled, because everyone is getting close to the camera and getting ready to throw down. This was the nastiest tangle I've ever seen. Normally in a tangle it's still possible to control the kite. This one, the tangle was right at the bridle and there was complete loss o...

if you have a core just use the QR if it's above 20 knots or a tether if you have one set up. Don't be messing around and hurt yourself. you can always tell which self land videos are legit, because they will always mention you can use the QR. Too many kiters quite simply forget that it's an option....

If the original poster can't do it, I guess he's stuck riding it with the seized bolts, paying someone to do it for him, or selling it. I say go for it, try to get the bolts off. cut them, drill them, or hacksaw them down the middle so you can insert a screwdriver on the bolt to get some leverage an...

so easy to fix, get out your drill, drill out the bolt to the nut, buy all new hardware shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. If this were hard to do (having to worry about countersinking and counter drilling and maybe using heli-coil) I would think twice about it maybe leave them on, but this is just...

if you are tuning the kite by trial and error (like I do) and a less sophisticated understanding of the airfoil, build yourself a 10m control bar. At the end of the day after launching and landing the kite 100 times, you'll be thankful you are on short lines.

All the kite manufacturers source their materials from the same place. So you might have one batch of valves manufactured all at once that go out to a bunch of different manufacturers from certain models and certain years. Then when the valves fail 3 years later, like you said it's a disaster. After...

I love the soul it's a fantastic kite. I also love tube kites. There are different hassles with each kite. The foil kite gets leaky with old age and you have to adjust the bridles to get it to fly right. Tube kites the valves delaminate, and if you get pinholes, good luck ever fixing them. I don't m...

it's not the hose. It's the manufacturing process. I think I've replaced 24 valves so far with this problem. It's kind of random exactly where it cracks.

Ice101 make sure you try funalex's advice first. Advice from the internet is worth what you pay for it, but I know funalex is legit.

Nothing you can do but replace every valve if you want to save the kite. Some airush and ozone kites kites from certain years crumbled and failed after a few years of use due to quality control problems at the factory they were made at. The amount or type of plasticizer used in those batches weren't...