1. For the red line in the picture (the 5 line), can I use a line similar to all the other (black) lines? If not, how thick should it be and how/where to connect it to the regular line? Why normal flying line for the red one is not enough? Greenamit - the thread is mixing two different systems; the...

I'm sorry, I've been looking for an hour now; can someone direct me to a picture showing how you can attach a stopper ball on a kiteline so that it's both locked and adjustable? It's for the 5th element stopper knot at the ring so it's on an unsleeved length of line. I've lined the inside of my stop...

oh yea "x-treme" aint the problem the people going xtreme without helmets and leaches with a bad attitude and no experience (someone like u) are the problem Check out the video on x-rated's site; I guess that explains the leashless kite Hamish drops and it goes flying away from the contest site whi...

Thanks Foiken 8) I guess my point is as much fun as I've heard Neil's trip are, I wouldn't go on this one because of his choice of pro. That is my choice, and probably others who followed the entire episode would agree. listen dick first hamish is a cool guy who got really worked up when a bunch of ...

The next X-rated trip to the DR will be from the 18th to the 25th of June, this will, and is defiantly going to be totally EXTREME. The guest pro rider will be the famous Hamish Macdonald. All those pro riders and you pick Hamish. Must be a Slingshot thing. How nice, I can not only go to the kitebo...

I always wear my whitewater kayaking helmet sailing, and it paid off last week by my NOT appearing on this forum under one of Rick's postings! Safety leash wrapped while waterstarting too close to the beach; when I saw the wrap, I thought 'that probably won't work if I need it, then the gust hit. Ha...

Phlow- One additional benefit of the 5th Element is that it makes dragging upwind to reach a lost board much easier. I wonder if they mean instead of body dragging back upwind, you also now have the option to leave the kite in the inverted/depowered position; leash attached to you, and swim back to ...

This is the post describing the rigging of the stopper ball distance. I have now recreated the F-one 2004 punchout bar like DrLightwind uses, and have combined the bar and fifth line setup to the North 5th Element system. Now that's what I'm talking about! Bar Pictures Spread your arms. That's a goo...

I'll have to make another and take some progress pictures as I do, but it's all basic fid and splice work. You pull the core of the rope out through the side of the braided line about 4-6" from one end of the line, take the outer jacket that's left and fid it back through the line where the core cam...

That's easy! I had the Cabrinha bar and I wanted to try this new system out with my already incorporated CLS copy for less $ . Love it. The bar I had selected, the non-swivel, was backordered two weeks and I didn't want to hold up three kites + other crap for a bar I didn't really need. I will proba...