An OLD Kiteboarding Bar VS A NEW Kiteboarding Bar

We stumbled upon an older kiteboarding bar from 2011. We remember these bars when they first came out. At the time we even knew the safety systems were not perfect. Around this time was when kiteboarding equipment was coming out with big improvements each year. 12 years later, we compare a modern bar with an "old" kiteboarding bar. The new bar we used is the Cabrinha COS bar www.cabrinha.com/products/cab...
00:00 Intro
01:28 Old Bar Safety
02:38 Riding Old Bar
04:05 New Bar Safety
05:08 Riding New Bar
06:00 Overview

[@TonyinFL]

Interesting video! I wonder if the safety would have worked properly had the old bar been paired with a old kite from the same period.

[@KiteboardingStPetersburg]

Im pretty positive that kite wouldnt matter and that it has to do with the bar. Im sure you can take a new bar and old kite and if the new bar has a modern safety system, it would work on the old kite the same as a new kite.. Big differences with the older kites is the complex bridle systems with all those pulleys

[@guusjuh97]

It actually does, cabrinha used a special bridle which allowed te kite to roll over completely with the safety line on the two front lines. Nowadays, they switched to a one line flag-out. The new bridles aren't made to work with the old system, so the comparison honestly doesn't make that much sense from a safety perspective.

[@stephensmith8317]

First 😅