Paragliding Kiting Errors
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2021
- Paragliders often make these mistakes when kiting and launching. Grabbing the lines above the risers, pulling the risers up and away, deflecting the lines as opposed to pulling them! This video will give you some tips on how to kite better and be more in control of your glider.
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Hey Ari,
Bro, you are a great teacher!!! I watched a bunch of people explaining things and I don’t get them! I get you bro! You totally make sense and this video helped me a lot!!!!! Thanks 🙏🏻
Nice Video but...I don't think it makes any difference to the wing whether you are pulling the As towards the carabiners or lifting them up. As long as you operate the A's one in each hand and you maintain tension on your carabiners, it makes no difference at all. We are talking about the initial lift here. Once the wing is overhead the 'As' become irrelevant. You can maintain a wing in half inflation in light winds just supporting it with the 'As'. I've spent many hours kitting for fun and for launch practice. Sometimes I pull back, other times I lift and I don't find much difference in it. In light winds you can't get enough 'pull' out of the raiser and have to go up the line to get the wing to inflate. In strong winds mostly just lifting the As from the Bs is enough to make the wing come up.
So basic and yet so important! Great thought process! I learned a lot. Thanks Ari!
This is excellent. I fly a paramotor so I don't always have a harness on, and I totally experience the horseshoe when inflating my wing just in-hand, and now I know why -- because my As are together and on top of each other, rather than 1-2 feet apart. While I don't know that there's a better way of kiting the wing without being attached to a harness, at least I know why it is happening to me. I also don't have a lot of wind near me so most of my launches are in pretty light to nil wind. Kiting with a harness on in full wind will be fun now that I have a few different techniques from this video to try! Thanks Ari!
Learned a couple things on this one so I'd call it a successful video :) thanks!
Glad you’re back! Been missing your vids!
I got the yeti convertible (the same in your vid?) basically for ground handling lol. And the odd soaring flight. My pod harness is rubbish for gh because it feels like a big poo hanging off my bum and banging against my legs and so I found I wasn't really doing any practice. So one error is to not have a harness that's good for ground handling.
Good points here. This theory would also apply to a's and c's launch technique as your changing the geometry all over the place especially depending on the glider. I see some pilots on launch with this style, staying in reverse kite mode for ridiculous amount of time before turning. They also tend not to move towards wing as they try and do all controls with hands. Is best to to turn just as glider comes overhead and kite in forward position. Risers are not twisted and you have a more true feel for the wing.
Thank you so much, im learning all the good habits. My instructor taught me some bad ones after seeing this.
I have that harness, I love it for flying, but I'm glad I already had kids, inflating with it is a bit painful on the crown jewels. I'm suffering by seeing a PI on sand and rocks, I guess is already on its way out. To avoid a horseshoe while inflating with both risers in one hand, I just place the wing as a horseshoe in the ground, it will always inflate from the center first. Then again, different wings behave differently.
Thanks for the video, just wondering what category is the glider you’re using for this demonstration, A B or C? Cheers 🤘😄
Dude. Nobody taught me that about if your A’s are together it horseshoes. I have noticed it horseshoe but didn’t think about the lines being tighter on the outside. Do you think if you had the A’s far apart the wing would come up with less power?
Thanks bud............
Interesting stuff, I grew up with A in each hand but folks today are saying both A in one hand and C's in the other so you can kill it quickly. BTW - where is your training hill, at first I thought the craters in flagstaff
All you need to see in this video is at
For me first you must have prepare, and hold the brake lines to always, grabe the A's with one hand and one brake the other hand is control the glider, most of pilots dosn't do that
Interesting. There's a lot of psychology in people lifting the As to try and lift the wing (rather than pulling in) and pulling down on the Cs to try and bring the wing down (rather than pulling in to the karabiners). I have been guilty of both.
does anyone else think he looks like the guy from the sonic movie
Wrong wrong, wrong and more wrong 😂