How To Fly Fixed Bridle Foil Power Kites

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How to fly ram air fixed bridle foil power kites, get expert tips and advice on kite maintenance and flying techniques in this free instructional video.

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How To Fly Fixed Bridle Foil Power Kites
Howdy there and welcome to Las Vegas, Nevada and my name is Corey Jensen and my shop is Wind Powers Sports; windpowersports.com where you can find me on the internet. We are moving into Power kites now. These are fixed bridle foils and they have four lines. They fly just like the two line sport kites with the addition of two extra lines attached to the trailing edge of a wing not a sail that gives you independent left and right flap control. Here is how you launch. Step back and pull the thing into the sky. Now with a foil the faster it flies the more power it generates and it flies in a wider arc so we use them a lot for traction and traction can be either on a buggy or a mountain board or with a different kind of kite technology you can get out on the water. We don’t use ram air kites on the water because they can fill with water and become incredible sea anchors and kind of spoils the day if you have to throw away all of your gear and drown. It kills most of the weekend actually. These guys are completely soft. They have no struts or sticks in them at all. Air pressure holds them open and they become a dual surface airfoil wing and the faster the kite flies the more power it can generate. That is one of the reasons that we like them for engines; the wide arc, the portability, nothing to break, the convenience that one person can launch and land all by themselves and their ability to have enough pull in the same wind. I was flying a two line Delta kite in this wind here two minutes ago and it pulled about a third as much as this foil does. As soon as this filming is over I am going to get on a buggy. I’m going to cover that the next time.

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Expert: Corey Jensen has owned and operated kite stores since 1985, and has been an avid kite enthusiast since the age of 12. Read More