It happens to the best of us that lovely bowl of noodles.

The best way I have found to make short work of it is to rip the top of a carton of beer, make four sqaures of cardboard and start wrapping one line at a time around each piece of cardboard. Go as far as you can with one line and when it gets too hard start on another one. That way its easy to pull a whole lot of line through all the loops your going to have in there and not start any new tangles along the way. The lid of a carton is good because its thick and wont bend out of shape as you put all your line onto it.

You should have the worst of tangles out in a hour like that.

thanks for the response, i suppose Ive got some thing to do whilst baby sitting tonight.

or use cigar boxes.

Pretend ur playin pirates! Cut ur lines, let the little brats tie each other up, watch ur favorite kite dvd,go to bed. Get the kids parents to buy you a new set tomorrow (tell em the little bastards cut ur lines an they owe you big time).

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pulling single lines "out" of the tangle is usually worse than just working out the loops

mother of all tangles...
i bet i have seen worse hehehe

one person was drifting towards a long rockwall and someone tried to save him. both kites crashed and anyway they managed to get on to he rock wall without damaging thier kites. to walk up the wall to get back to the beach they decided to jumble al theirlines together so they wouldnt get caught on the rocks.

the result was a massive ball of lines which could not be pulled out to more than 1m long and with the bars in betweeen all the lines hehehe

note to self: never buy lines in one Color

i suggest a bbq lighter and some fuel
that'll show em not to get knotted
a sacrifice to the wind gods
go buy some new ones and feel better within
then crack a beer

its a learning thing, your lines will take any opportunity u give to get close[}:)]

Enjoy it mate, I found the rush of getting a big tangle out was bigger than the rush of getting going on the board.

One line at a time will get you there. Pick a line and get it all the way out of the tangle, then move onto the next one.

boom tish! lol

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A piecr of trivia: there was a person who, for his thesis, theorised on the mathimatical formula of knots. I am sure there was a statistical component, just as well as a quantum aspect.

therefore once armed with the equation you should be able to calculate how long it will take you to untangle a given mass of lines.

That then leaves the question of how long is a piece of string.

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are there absolutes??????????????????????? thats the question i ponder
its not how to untangle the knot but thry to understand if there really is a knot... and if there is it a knot is it just multiple pieces of string intwined or something more symbolic....
foir i found there is no knot it is just remnance of various obsticals in my childhood......... that have re-surfaced as i remenece....



eeep icant breath i think the room is getting smaller