paulOz wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2017 12:23 am
I have heard many times, sheet out and hang off the kite.
When I sheet out, I'm pretty unlikely to be able to hang my corpulence from it.
(tube kites).
Comments?
Paul, when you sheet out a foil kite as it crosses over your head you actually get power out of it, so when people say "sheet out" that's really their way of saying "accelerate the kite in a low Angle of Attack mode as it passes over your head so that the apparent wind creates more lift."
Sheeting out actually isn't great advice with a tube kite, like Gunnar said, you basically only sheet out enough to prevent yourself from getting chucked off the board with too much power while turning into the tack at the beginning, but as soon as you stand up from that "sitting back" position to switch feet I'm pulling hard on the bar to get the kite to lift my ass up and power me up out of the tack.
So again, the advice to "sheet out" really means "put the kite in a low AoA mode to prepare it to power up when you go weightless in the harness to switch your feet on the exit as you dive it and ride away."
With a tube kite, it's less of a sheet out thing and more of a "get ready to power up just enough to do a low-to-the-water backroll transition" which is all a foiling tack really is.