Herman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 9:04 pm
Sometimes I find it difficult to understand what is going on from a pov video, are you able to complete the kite loop in the front half of the window so that you don’t have to bear away to cope with the build up of line tension??
well spoted, I was not able to keep the kite in front of me ; I tried ... but not succeed ;
in this low wind (and 16m line length) the kite was needing the full window , and was finishing (too) far at the rear of the window ; 16m line length does not help I suppose, to keep the kite in front of the window ...
I tried first to jump higher and then launch the kite backward, like with LEI in more wind, but too low wind , so hard to reach more than 2.5 m high. And then kite at almost 0 speed at 2.5m high had so poor line tension and turned so slowly (and without lift ) that it did not turn enough before I touched the water ;
So in the end, launching the KL directly after having sent the kite backward to jump led to the most complete KL I could ;
1 more knot would have been better (not very much because then a KL is too impressive , dangerous in view of my level and risk of kite damage , while I am selling this So3 13m today)