Again, not the point. The same kite will actually have quite a bit of water inside the kite, if I am attached to it, if I take that long to relaunch it. In the video there was zero water inside, that is wha the kite relaunched immediately when I grabbed the chicken loop. It inverted because it was hot launched on short lines missing a bit of internal pressure. If you look closely at the video, there is no water coming out of the outlets on the tip, it is flapping because the kite is wet.foilholio wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 11:48 amQuite easy answer. Because you have barely left it on the water. It is not a fast relaunch but also not a slow one. I will also add the vents avoid taking any water and narrowly miss some of the whitewash that could have added quick a bit of water. Your technique is no doubt good, hard to see exactly what has happened. Maybe you did drop the whole kite and bar? You did avoid a tip wrap, inversion, hourglass, an some bridle fun. At the end you had some water, tips definitely flapped, kite collapse may have been because of water as well.
I will add a quick relaunch on a foil kite will leave tube kiters not aware it even dropped. I would say 2-10seconds. On many occasions I have relaunched while still on plane, even relaunched while still riding a wave a few times.
You also see that the kite rolled a few times and spent some time with the intakes in the water, and still no water got in. As some have theorised, that water might be coming in through the seams, this is not happening with my kite. If it was, the kite should also be filling with water without me attached to it.
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