Can any one give me the proper procedure for self landing c kites. After making a stupid stupid mistake of trying to self land my slingshot only to have it fall back into the power zone and as i pulled my safety and wonder why kite is not depowering i realise i am still hooked into suicide and get pulled face first into sand, stupid i know i just simply forgot to change back to fith line.

Anyway i am looking for the right advice on landing a c kite not the fact that i should have not been hooked into suicide i already know this.

Is there another way to do it? when i pull the pin to self land, then work my way back to the kite, there is always at least 45min of untangling to do.

mate the safest in wind is unhook and let go of the bar with safety attached to 5 line, folllow the procedure of the other post, take your time and there should be no mess, make sure you dont bundle your lines together, after you have secured your kite grab your bar and run it away from kite till all your lines are pulled tight, this should prevent any tangles

Yep i throw the bar and let the kite drop on the 5 th line gently to the ground.
Only difference is once the kite is on its back on the beach i tie the 5 th line to my partly buried board and walk up the lines to secure the kite.
Works '4' me

another trick I use to avoid tangles is do a combination of kitergirls 'fly it onto the ground' and as soon as it's there or close I remove the bar from my person and 'drop it onto the fifth line'. So far I'm getting 50/50 of it staying right where I land it or hopping up for one bounce and landing about 10m away to stay. Then instead of reeling it in I walk my way up the 5th line to it so all my lines lie where they fell and aren't as inclined to get tangled. Once it's properly secured I'll go back, pull the 5th line back to the bar and then walk out the lines which so far have everytime lain out without even a hint of a tangle.

It has been known to muck up and not get the leading edge down, then I just pull it in anyway. Bit of effort, but not too bad.

back in the day when I used to fly a 5th line I never had any hassles with lines tangling when using the safety.

Have you got a stopper ball setup to stop the bar going too far up the 5th line?

i think the biggest problem with me occurs when i've got the kite down and am walking back up the 5th line to the kite. the safety is still attached and dragging the bar which is getting caught up in the rest of the line. Pain in the ring when the bar is part of the birds nest.

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Originally posted by knuckle

I have been wanting to install a stopper ball to prevent bar going to far towards kite, what is the best method for installing and length to put it to still allow full depower?

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Ah-ha! You need to put a stopper ball on your 5th line. then you will never (ok rarely) tangle your bar & lines

The stopper needs to be placed so that the kite on safety rests on its back when in the centre of the window : something like

if it looks like this then the stopper is too close to the bar and the kite will not depower fully when on the water :

test it out in light winds to make sure you get it right before you use it for real!

Just got a Waroo to replace my 5-line Boxer . Woot, no more tangles.... i hope

Check out this video clip. It requires that your leash line is one of your centre lines. Also, the clip says hold the leash line with your hand - rather use your leash.

http://www.ikiteboarding.com/uploads/selflandkite.avi

It works really well - just make sure that the line that you attach to is the top line when the kite is at 45 deg. This means that you can only land to one side when using this technique.

agreed - if you can land your prehistoric C kite on a front line safety then you were underpowered :-P