TANGLES IN MY LINES!!

[constantino7491]

last time i went to the beach i spent maybe about an hour untangling my lines and i see other people setting up their lines perfectly and getting out in 5 minutes ! i put my lines around my bar in the 8 figure and everything does anyone have any tips?

[mx5alan]

last time i went to the beach i spent maybe about an hour untangling my lines and i see other people setting up their lines perfectly and getting out in 5 minutes ! i put my lines around my bar in the 8 figure and everything does anyone have any tips?

Check out the Line-Crawler thread....

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or http://www.kitelobster.com

another helpful tip is to Larkhead the front & rear lines together on each side of the kite when you disconnect to wind your lines.

[BizB]

• Keep the lines tight between your fingers when you're wrapping them up.
• Try to keep them from crossing as you wind them up
• Walk toward the kite as you wind. that way the ends don't drag and get wrapped around each other.
• When I disconnect the kite, I larks-head the end of the steering line to the end of the power line so they stay together.
• When You unwind, make sure you're holding the bar the same way you were when you were winding the lines.
• Walk away from the kite as you unwind the lines, but don't drag the ends
• When you're walking your lines and you are getting close to the ends, don't lift the ends off the ground where the wind can tangle them

[gonewiththewind]

I say after you unwrap the lines, pull the bar a few feet to pull out any slack in the lines. Any slack is what becomes a pain when you are walking the lines out. Same thing after disconnecting the lines from the kite and getting read to wrap the lines around the bar. Take out the slack first by pulling the bar a few feet to stretch the lines out.

When walking the line out, try a combination of these two methods:

Walk them out with the two center lines running between your legs and then one through each hand. Your side lines should be running around the outside of your body and through your hands. That way if you drop one, there's still no way they could have crossed. Keep your arms spread wide to auto-detangle as you walk forward.

When the lines don't want to slide because they're twisting around eachother, place all of the lines in one hand, resting in sequence in the spaces between your fingers. That way you can use your other hand to work through the tangles while still keeping them separated.

Also, get multi-colored lines if you don't already have them. It's a sin that some manufacturers wrap their bars with four white lines.

[Beachbum1236]

try to untangle the outside lines first and then go back and do the inside lines. (separate the outside lines from the two inside lines, lay them away when you are done separating them, then go back to the bar and separate the inside ones)

and attaching your bar to something, or burying it in the sand so you can tug on it helps me.

[InMezzoAVoi]

• Keep the lines tight between your fingers when you're wrapping them up.
• Try to keep them from crossing as you wind them up
• Walk toward the kite as you wind. that way the ends don't drag and get wrapped around each other.
• When I disconnect the kite, I larks-head the end of the steering line to the end of the power line so they stay together.
• When You unwind, make sure you're holding the bar the same way you were when you were winding the lines.
• Walk away from the kite as you unwind the lines, but don't drag the ends
• When you're walking your lines and you are getting close to the ends, don't lift the ends off the ground where the wind can tangle them

Right!!.. and i add another important thing:
before unwinding the lines fix all 4/5 ends of the lines at the board or another fixed point near the kite .....stick the board on the sand and then begin to unwind the lines ...when they are unwinded, pull the bar and put tension on the lines..done!!...they will separate.Usually it works.

bye

IMAV

[bigmark100]

if you do have a birds nest, work on one line at a time....

[scklandl]

twist the lines as you wrap it onto the bar 180 degrees, this stops the lines front twisting over each other and makes them lay flat

you can also seperate left and right sides with a finger and this further reduces line tangles

when walking lines out fix CL to something so you have tension


ps line crawler works good

[cglazier]

And an obvious suggestion:
If you think you might have tangled lines, straighten them out on some nice grassy lawn on a no wind day .. don't show up at the beach and waste valuable kiting time dealing with this kind of thing.


CG

[laz]

wrap the lines when there still connected to the kite and then once you cant wind anymore disconnect them
also always keep tension on the lines
and wrap your bungy leash around the bar to make sure nothing can slip. if its still getting tangled maybe your lines are all bent and old and kinda have a curliness to themthen it might be time for new lines?

i once pulled my safety with a slingshot bar that had all white lines when i was learning since i couldnt relaunch( i was only like 200 feet from shore) and it took me 2 hours to untangle them. the ironic thing was the wind was onshore and woulda just blown me to the beach in a minute but i was a scared newbie lol