Red on left side

voodoospirit · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:01 pm

tautologies wrote:

voodoospirit wrote:

if u really want to help someone, u use the QR, u dont control his bar.

it would be far better that peeps learn how to use they QR, than a pointless red color on a bar.

Nw this is why I think people gotta start thinking. You cannot imagine a situation where this is not possible?

The guy being dragged.onhis belly. Id like to see you try to access that cl.
Or some guy in the water?

i got drag in sand, in water and in snow....
1st: let go the bar
2nd: use your QR which is accessible even dragged on hard surface.even with a seat harness, u can access it...

1st: save yourself
2nd: save your kite

and not the other way around, that s a kitesurfer mentality. if u had barbwires, cliff, rocks, u learn how to reach your QR in whatever the position you are or YOU ARE DEAD.
and it s not a color system that would have saved my ass , multiples times.

romkite · **Joined:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:59 pm **Posts:** 27

briansuntrax wrote:

As an ex Hobie Cat and windsurf racer who was indoctrinated in the red/green port/starboard thing, I have always thought in these terms for kite bars. However an earlier poster mentioned an aditional stripe along the full length of one side of the bar for the colour blind.
This got me thinking, why should we have to think about which colour should be on which end when we can simply have a right side and a wrong side (not end) of the bar ? we could have a white side and a black side, or any 2 contrasting colours, plus maybe a stripe/s or zig zag for the colour blind.
Surely this would be much easier to remember than which colour should be on which end?

For the purists we could still have a red floater and leader line on the left.

Or have I forgotten something?

Not sure what's the best way to handle the colour blind problem, but I think you are forgetting the issue with the experienced rider : it is easier for them to have red left both front & rear so that they can catch the bar within a flash after a crash when the bar is twisted half a turn. This also apply to Tautologies example of someone trying to catch a bar on the beach during an accident.

tautologies · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:26 pm

voodoospirit wrote:

i got drag in sand, in water and in snow....
1st: let go the bar
2nd: use your QR which is accessible even dragged on hard surface.even with a seat harness, u can access it...

1st: save yourself
2nd: save your kite

and not the other way around, that s a kitesurfer mentality. if u had barbwires, cliff, rocks, u learn how to reach your QR in whatever the position you are or YOU ARE DEAD.
and it s not a color system that would have saved my ass , multiples times.

I do not disagree, but this guy was laying on the CL. We've had others we flipped around and released the QR, but in this case it was a no go. One guy dove on his back and I dumped the kite until we could access the QR.

He was heading for hard surfaces really fast. It was even after he disregarded that we recommended a lesson....you know all the normal stuff...

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