Soleas wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:52 pm
Excess bar pressure? What, the Soul? Sorry, I'm not trying to be ironic i just have a different experience with the Soul. What size bar are you flying the Soul with? I have flown many many, many kites in my career and the Soul has the lightest bar pressure of all. I have not tried the Sonic. Even lighter sounds good but it's pretty light to me as it is. I fly the 10m Soul and I've flown the 12 and 15 several times. Even the 15m was very light.
Ok I come from inflatables and the Soul feels like nothing. Inflatables from back to the future. I'm not a big guy i'm a light weight but coming from the 2 line kite era and windsurfing probably has an effect on how I feel barpressure.
I had 12m Soul with 50cm Infinity bar.
And I say that the bar pressure was biiiitch. It was so hard it pinched nerves in my elbows during transitions, which was quite painful. It's a good thing that Soul is quite static kite and doesn't require much sining, but when it does, if wind drops, that's when it turns into a gym session, rather than kiting. Whenever I go off the water for a mid session break, what was tired the most were not my legs, abs or back, but the arms. And I definitely weren't able to control it with one arm on the bar. Folks have suggested that I should lengthen some lines in the bridles to reduce the bar pressure, but I didn't arse to do that. Yet that option could've been made tunable on V2 like it is on LEIs.
High bar pressure was one of the main reasons why I got rid of the Soul. Now I have a LEI kite and the bar pressure on it was feathery, which felt really weird, so I have set it up for higher bar pressure and it was still not as hard as it was on Soul.