It's not always the best to practice Death Loops on the beach, especially if you're not an advanced rider. You don't want them to become tangled around you, which is dangerous if the kite relaunches accidently. Be sure to keep your other lines out of the way. If you're in a shallow area, you can walk yourself towards the kite by pulling on the steering line until you've grabbed the leading edge. Then, proceed with your usual self-rescue. Anton mentions a good rule of thumb is to wrap the line around your bar 10 times. Use the steering line you've pulled and place it around your bar ends to depower the kite completely. If you're still unsure about your lines, or you cannot relaunch safely, proceed to a self-rescue. While doing this, make sure you still have your grip on your steering line to keep the kite depowered.
You could also twist your bar while your kite is flat in the water before relaunch, but you'll want to make sure you remember your direction of flight before untangling (otherwise you'll just make them more tangled). Have a bit more precise control and spin your bar to untangle your lines. You can fly with twisted lines after your kite is in the air.
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With this, you'll want to make sure your kite is in full control again before relaunching. First, you could relaunch your kite and then spin your lines until they are straight. Once your kite is flat, there are a couple of options. No matter the kite, it will lose power once it is in the sideways position. Keep pulling on the steering lines until your kite is on its side. What's next? Now you have to try and keep the kite flat on the water. Once you begin pulling the kite will start looping faster before it begins to rotate along the water's surface, eventually stalling. You can also use the tensioning line, but this can be difficult for riders. If you can't pull the steering line hard enough, wait until the kite begins to hit the water's surface and stall. Pulling hard on the steering line will cause the kite to stall and stop looping, eventually falling from the sky. Since you've realized that you're beginning to loop and your safety system is blocked, the first thing you'll need to do is force the kite to stop.
In this case, the quick release on your bar will not work because it will not be able to fly away from you. The control system is fixated to the harness when the kite begins to loop out-of-control. The kite is still powered, and you're left helpless.Īnother common initiation of the death loop occurs when the steering line will wrap around the harness loop. Once the quick release is initiated it can be difficult to manually fly your kite, making the situation worse. When this happens, activating your quick release system won't help because the safety line is blocking. Sometimes, one of the bar tips will get locked around the bar as well, causing your kite to be uncontrollable. The Death Loop is often initiated by the depower wrapping around your bar. We've transposed it here to increase the knowledge and safety of our riders.
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Anton Chernyshov has released a video on how to "survive the death loop". You've watched the wipe-out kiteboarding videos, right? Where we see people crashing into the water, followed by a surrounding, " oooh" from your coworkers who have huddled over to your monitor? Unfortunately, some of those kiting videos end in tragedy and it can happen because of the "death loop".
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