Ride engine harness fit, rides up

[Kitedicted]

Hi,
I advanced from my first soft old waist harness and bought into the hype and got a 19 RE harness in a size small. I tighten it really hard and it feels great at first but it still rides up on me after a while. I suspect my body shape may not be perfect for the harness. Has anyone else had this issue? It doesn't rotate st all but it moves in the vertical plane. Unsure where to go from here harness wise

Regards
Sam

[or6]

When does it ride up? All the time? Or in certain conditions, like, during a body drag?

[Kitedicted]

I'm practising jumping so I tend to tack back and forth and do a couple of jumps and after a while I feel that it's sitting a bit too high. So maybe after riding for 30 minutes it's just sitting too high. I don't body drag much but yesterday I did and it too gor too high.

Basically everytime I go out with it I feel that it ends up too high

[jyka]

I had the same problem. Ride engine harness was hard to tighten up enough. I sold it and I'm happy with mystic warrior now, it will stay down all the time.

[Kitedicted]

I suspect it's becausw my hip bone is slightly wider than my waist, so the harness first grips my hip and waist and then slide up to my waist and lats. It's too tall of a harness to purely lock into my waist.

[matth]

Burn the POS and buy a seat or board short harness..lol... I rode a waist for a little while just so I could honestly say they suck...IMO...

[juandesooka]

I am normally a medium, but sized down to a small for RE. It stays snug in medium/light wind, but if powered up / over powered, it rides up like crazy. When I had my medium, it would actually get painful and hard to breath, pushing up into my rib cage. I have friends with same harness, insist they've never had an issue, so maybe it is body type as you say.

This is the first gen, seems like newer ones have more straps, maybe better at holding down.

My other harness is Ocean Rodeo ... it has leg tie-downs.

[Havre]

I'm not an expert on harnesses and fit as I have basically only ridden Mystic Majestic the last 4 years or so, but those won't ride up on me even if I don't tighten properly. Or it will occasionally "slip" up if it is really loose, but I don't blame the harness for that.

Sounds like an unfortunate fit to me.

[Red Pointer]

wear an impact vest, problem solved

[foam-n-fibre]

Don't underestimate how much how you fly the kite and how your stance affects if the harness rides up. I don't have wide shoulders or anything and in 20 years of kiting i don't think I've had a problem with any harness riding up which can't be solved while riding. If the harness does shift up a bit, lower the kite, lean your shoulders back and let the kite pull the harness back down.

Perhaps if you had a harness that fit perfectly and it allowed you to get away with technique that would make some harnesses ride up, you are now finding out the hard way what not to do. (I have no idea of your skill or technique, so perhaps this is not the case for you - there's no way to tell in this discussion).

Peter