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Originally posted by user
So,according to a witness,you have been dropping your kite !
"I've been out with you on most sessions and you haven't even dropped it much at all."
So,you didn't drop it "much" ???? Just a "few" times???
Anyway,if the stitching was faulty,the manufacturer would replace it.
If the stitching was not faulty,and you have been crashing the kite,then its your responsibility.
Bit hard to understand how an under inflated kite could explode !
Also,an admission of flying the kite underinflated could be an issue !
Sounds like an easy repair along a seam.Shouldn't be too much of a problem.
I probably drop the kite once every two sessions. This is a new kite so I have been super careful with my flying. My old TD copped an absolute beating regularly getting swamped by waves or smashing into the water hard and still it was in perfect nick when I traded it in. I have been pedantic about prolonging the life of this kite as I just folked out all my savings on an 11 and a 14 hoping to get 2 seasons out of them (The 11 is the one with the damaged strut).
After all the carnage the old kite didnt have a single tear in it, yet I tore the leading edge of the TD2 14 in half on a reasonbly small wave (something the old TD would have laughed at) It might have been facing the wrong direction when the wave hit it??? The 11 is my baby, the boys I go out with can confirm that I never drop it as it is so easy to keep in the air (14 is a little harder to recover). Someone else has told me that flying without the struts sealed off can also cause this problem. I would be really interested to hear from other people that this has happened to.
