Sounds like you need to pay for some lessons mate, this is very basic stuff that your instructor should have taught you......

just put it on the middle ones, its not super important.

However I am worried about you asking about the cleat, which is the depower and vitally important part of kite use. Did you learn on a cabrinha, zeeko or something else with a different depower system?

Where abouts in New Zealand are you from?

The knots allow you to make small adjustment to line lengths, this effects the power/sheeting of kite.

Rear knots (closest to kite)= shorter lines.

If you put all 4 lines on same knots you'r making no adjustment, this is what you should be doing.

But so you know:-

Short front lines depowers/sheets kite and allows kite to fly further forward in wind window.

Short rear lines is more power but can also cause kite to stall and/or fly further back in wind window.

You can also change position of where lines attach to kite, what this will do to performance is actually printed on the kite so should be fairly straight forward.

You prob will not notice any difference while learning, but it could make learning more difficult, you will be hooked in and making all kinds of other mistakes. Good luck!

It's really important to totally understand how everything works, plus what to do when something goes wrong.

You will have kitemares. But don't get scared, get more lessons.

To answer your original questions:-

Use first knots. (At the end furthest from kite)

Set pigtail positions to:-

Less power setting for front lines.
Less bar pressure setting for rear lines.

Once you can stay upwind in both directions and have kite control go back and have a play around with the knots and pigtails and see if you can feel the difference.

Hope this helps.

Stay safe.

I strongly suggest you pack your kite up and take it to a pro or shop that can train you on the various aspects of this kite. Slingshot RPMs are great kites and fly well but can be super dangerous if rigged up incorrectly.

Where did you buy the kite from and do you know what year model this is?

I would suggest possibly taking it back to where you bought it from and getting them to talk you through the details.

Can i have your crisp new kite after youve drowned?

Thanks guys, this has been helpful. Didn't mean to come off raging at Slingshot in particular. Just blows me away (haha, a kiting pun) how bad the websites are with some big companies. Seems like they'd have the budget to make manual downloads etc accessible.

Had a chat to one of the instructors down at Pt Chev yesterday about the Slingshot in particular which was also helpful. It's a 2013 btw. I realise it's not a beginners kite but didn't particularly want to spend a few k and then want something different at the same size in a year or so. Call me cocky if you want but I don't have a cash tree in the back yard. And yeah, you can have my kite when I drown samokta, just pm me your credit card details so I can verify your address.

Send an email to the guys at board crazy in nsw and they will sort out a copy of the instruction manual that usually does come with the kite.

Find a euro and steal their pump. Probably not theirs anyway