in all honesty, when you say learning, I'm picturing a newbie !

if you are a newbie, I would'nt be getting into the whole unhooking debate as it will be some time before your going to be worried about it...

I would focus on learning as much as you can that will benefit your riding ability right now...

fair enough, but looking in advance im going to want a kit that i can do everything with, and getting one that (possibly) wont allow me to unhook to do my prefered style (wakestyle) would be a waist.
thats all, and dont worry that im am newbie as im sure that others will be interested as well.

do you think that its a fair statmentthat 70% of kiter wont unhook?

and had first lesson on thurs

Originally posted by Blondie
[do you think that its a fair statmentthat 70% of kiter wont unhook?

yep...

Blondie, I have just started to do unhooked tricks and I ride a Crossbow 9. In no time at all I was landing raileys (is that how you spell it?) and I am looking get into more tricks in the coming weeks. So for me, unhooking with the bow is just fine.

Dont even listen to those instructors, when was the last time you saw one killing it. There the first to bag other kites as they have to justify you paying to use there crap!

If you are serious about unhooking go the switchblade,the pull is nice and the power cut out and super easy relunch will have you trying more moves then ever

i flew a GK Sonic on the beach yesterday just to give em a sample, hurt my arms being unhooked after a couple of mins... Although flying any kite for minutes unhooked can begin to hurt your arms when its windy.

Originally posted by Blondie

i think this "Although I had to depower it a bit so my arms wouldn't get ripped out" is what there talking about.

don't worry about Davow remember he is on a 16m. One of the benefits of using say the switchblades is you can use a smaller kite and if you want to unhook you don't need a manyway. a 12 is much more suited and a 9 would be fine as well. I am usually out on 9 when there are plenty of 16s out and i am not underpowered. Some of the big guys like a big kite and ride 16's up to 25 knots (these are likely the 70% who don't unhook that brownee was refering to).
When choosing the right bow to get it depends how heavy you are and what your local conditions are on which size to get. i used to have 6 kites and now i have a 12 and a 9 and can comfortably cover 5- 30 knots and unhook the whole time. I have to trim the kite to unhook less than i did with the standard C kite. I also had to rig up twice as many.