Love Peter's signal. one vote to adopt it.

Family comes first. Good advice ferny.

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I'm not sure what the eventually signal we will use to "abort launch" will be. I do know that right now we are consensus building. If it turns out we can all agree on one signal that would be awesome and maybe it would spread and become a standard. I appreciate all the ideas and no matter what happe...

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Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:40 am

A clenched fist held out to the side. It is best to go over the basic hand signals before launching so that there is no confusion.

Interesting. I have not heard of that one before. If it's indeed universal I'll start using it.

easy: tap the head and since you should have one hand on the Quick Release at launch and landing, immediately activate it with the other hand and walk towards your kite. Safe as can be. While you are raising your arm to your head your thumb will be attached to your hand and before the hand hits you...

Good ones guys. Drop the bar and walk towards the helper, it's an unmistakable signal. Don't ask me why I couldn't think of this myself.

Thumbs up means launch, tap the head means land, but what is the international signal for abort the launch, something is wrong?

Thumbs down? I dunno.

For sure we Will never see foil kite in king or air or surf freestyle..and we never see pump kite in race competition..anyway Who s watching race competition...😁😁 There should be foil kites in King of the Air, the reason being foil kites jump higher due to their being a more efficient wing. There's...

Great article! Thanks for sharing. I really liked those airflow diagrams.