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Kitesurfing Equipment Tuning, Foil Kites

As in any other sport tuning your equipment, to your needs or

for better performances, is essential. In this article you will

be able to read about tuning foil kites to your needs.

Usually, 3 line foils are having the brake lines attached to the

center of the bar and the front lines both attached to the ends

of the bar. In most cases, this leads to needing a power

steering line to attach each front line to its corresponding

trailing edge. So, the power steering line should have no

tension or slack while the kite flies straight overhead. The

kite will be turned "unluffable" no matter that there can be

quite gusty wind conditions. All this just by properly tuning

the power steering line. Remember that the power steering lines

are very similar to an "automatic" brake, that should stop the

kite in case it might overfly.

The Concept Air kites offer the possibility to be tuned by using

a VSS system , so that they would fly faster or slower. Just

like this type of kites, a foil can be also tuned to fly faster

or slower. The interesting thing to know is that the Concept Air

kite bridal is made up of three sections: the front bridal, the

middle bridal and the trailing edge bridal. The trailing edge

bridals are connected to the brake lines , while the front and

the middle bridals are connected to the front lines. The

kitesurfer using such a kite type will be able to adjust the

angle of attack of the kite, by using the VSS system that has a

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number of attachment knots. The kiter may simply shorten the

front bridal, decreasing the angle of attack and thus making the

kite fly faster, or, on the other hand, a kiter may lengthen the

front bridal and shorten the middle bridal at the same time, in

order to increase the angle of attack. This way, his kite will

fly slower, as it will have more pull.

The vendor you purchased your kite from should be able to tell

you how and when to tune your kite. If you need more information

contacting them would be a good idea.

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