Fitzy,

How have you set up the weak link?

I have only recently started jumping, but have been using the reel leash for ages (I also wear a helmet).... have you had any issues with it when jumping?

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Originally posted by Fitzy

Have used a Reel Leash System for several years now. Bought both version one and the improved version from Steve at Kitepower.

I use a weak link as well as a helmet and impact vest.

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hmm lets add to this long thread.. ok i have never kited in St kilda (done a few other things but lets not bring that up here) but as i am moving back to Melb i felt i will join in. Ok NO LEASH, not weak linked ones, not reel one NO LEASH, why do we need to continue this? As an ex windsurfer, id like to say to 5meterdave that i understand the frustration of trashing a board, and understand you getting sick of picking up boards, but effectivly thiefing them aint the answer buddy, would you attach a leash when windsurfing? No ****ing way is the answer, i remember windsurfing in surf and having another windsurfers board clean me up cause he wiped out, should he have worn a leash, well if he wanted to loose a leg maybe so. Anyway once again NO LEASH ever!!! no reason for it really, maybe if your alone in the middle of the Atlantic ocean far from anyone else then ok. Does St kilda have a strong tide /rip that drags the boards into other areas?? i kite in a river mouth and we kite in a very strong outgoing tide so if you loose your board it shoots out to sea very quickly, we would far prefer to be picking up boards than promoting leashes, i have nearly been taken out from a kiter flying through the air with a leash, his board just missed me. Anyway, No LEASH,
im looking foward to kiting with the melb crew as most sound like a laugh and guys how about just picking up the board taking it to the beach (where the kiters are or close) and everyone doing thier best to get along, unless of course the bloke is a tool then just cut his lines...lol

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Originally posted by Fitzy

Have used a Reel Leash System for several years now. Bought both version one and the improved version from Steve at Kitepower.

I use a weak link as well as a helmet and impact vest. I kite several times a week (basically whenever there is wind) and have never had a mishap using this system. And have never lost a board.

The areas kited in up here include areas where there is often fast tidal flows that just LOVE to eat boards. (do a search of boards lost at the Gold Coast) Plenty of my mates have lost boards due to this problem. By the time the kite is relaunched the board is gone. It has nothing to do with experience as several IKO instructors and other very experienced riders have suffered similar losses here.

Basically comes down to a personal choice for mine. Kiting is risky. I guess more people have injured knees and ankles wearing a board than have suffered injury wearing a leash.


I'm with Steve on this one, particularly for learners.

Fitzy Gold Coast OZ

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Dear Fitzy,

I'm starting to think that you're a sucker for buying junk.

First, you buy an exploding Hellfish from Steve.
But that works out OK, you get your money back plus $100 credit,
and only Steve is the loser. L

Then with your credit burning a hole in your pocket,
you go and buy a Crossbow from Steve.
A kite with bar pressure from hell.

Thru sheer necessity, you solve the bar pressure problem with the now internationally famous 'Fitzy Mod'.
You become an instant hero with your peers and in the eyes of Cabrinha, a saboteur.

Then, to cap it all off, you pimp Reel leashes.
A tape-measure like device that was especially designed for sleepingbaggers.
An umbilical cord that connects the meat cleaver to the foil flyer,
after they ditch their doonas in the cruel sea.

Fitzy, you don't happen to drive a Chrysler P76 by any chance ?

Regards,
slave.

NO LEASH