trick lines

[kitehighland]

any disadvantages to using trick lines? my thinking was that perhaps it made flick flacks more difficult.

[wot do I no]

loads, but basically if the kite came with one stick with it otherwise don't put one on a kite that wasn't designed for one.

[BigDavey]

Depends on the kite... In general you'll lose some stability with the kite in the turtle/backflip position and moves like lazy susans etc. can be made more difficult - Especially with a stright tip-spine-tip trick line. It does give a bit of additional leverage for flic-flacs which can make it easier to pull the kite from the pancake into a fade again. I'd found that if I allowed a kite with no trick line to over-rotate in the pancake and show more of the kite's back then flac-ing the kite back into a fade became a bit more difficult.

 

A number of kites use an incut M-shaped line - to allow the flying lines to sit deeper into the sail whilst still giving the advantage of easier unwrapping of tipwraps etc. that a trickline often gives.

 

Yet again there's a V-shaped line that goes from the lower LE fittings to the spine.

 

As has been said - if there's one there, keep it there. A number of kites use the trick line as an integral part of the frame - e.g. Stranger / Psycho / Gemini's - It's tensioned slightly pulling the wingtips in a few mm.

 

HTH

[cj-bungatrot]

 

As has been said - if there's one there, keep it there. A number of kites use the trick line as an integral part of the frame - e.g. Stranger / Psycho / Gemini's - It's tensioned slightly pulling the wingtips in a few mm.

 

HTH

better make a new one for the stranger then. Does it have to be a specific length or can i cut it to size?