It seems to me that by constantly loosening the pigtails by wiggling and bending them back and forth to get them free and than putting them back on and sinching then tight would wear the loops out faster than just letting them be.

20lbs of the bag is on the beach...10lbs is on top of LE.....nothing goes inside the kite Because of that set-up the bag releases just right when the moment arrives to launch Kite is on it's back with trailing edge totally parallel to the wind flow Similar to the way you would launch a foil / ram a...