All,

I am thinking about getting a second harness, a seat one. My other one is a waist harness.
My questions are as follows:

1- my gear is currently North, is it beneficial to stick to getting North harness or
will any brand do?

2- Any gotchas I should be aware when choosing what harness to wear? Ie. will weather conditions have an impact wether I put on waist or seat harness?

I am trying to avoid sore ribs and know that as I progress this should be a lesser issue. In the meantime if I get a second harness I ve got two of everything = backup.

Any recommendations and advice accepted with great thanks!

Cheers,
Eric

ericmb said...
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I am trying to avoid sore ribs and know that as I progress this should be a lesser issue. ...

Try wearing your waist harness a *little* less tight. That way it won't crush your ribs when it rides up and it will slide straight back down when you bring the kite down.

The Dakine Fusion is an excellent seat harness.

hi eric. Seat harness's are great in high winds and will enable you to ride for longer because of the extra support, we use then for speed kiting where you need the support, wedgie's are a pain in the arse when you are pulling big airs tho, i use a mystic warrior harness which has been excellent but can also come undone doing some moves like backroll's only happens to me rarely tho, cant beat the freedom of a waist harness tho, its good to have both. High winds use seat, freestyle use waist.

The Dakine boardshort harness was far and away my favorite of all that I tried....

surfingboye said...

unless

A) your a girl

or

B) your still wearing nappies

dont buy one. what pro rider do you see who wears a nappy-ness.

perhaps boyo,

A) your a misogynist, or rather,

B) you're a misogynist?

as it happens girls seem to wear waist harnesses just as much as boys, and women as much as men. i know some awesome riders who choose seat harnesses. are you talking about pro wakestylers, speed-kiters, or what? horses for courses huh?

djdojo said...

surfingboye said...

unless

A) your a girl

or

B) your still wearing nappies

dont buy one. what pro rider do you see who wears a nappy-ness.

perhaps boyo,

A) your a misogynist, or rather,

B) you're a misogynist?

as it happens girls seem to wear waist harnesses just as much as boys, and women as much as men. i know some awesome riders who choose seat harnesses. are you talking about pro wakestylers, speed-kiters, or what? horses for courses huh?

im pretty sure there is no such thing as "pro speed racer". taht would just be homo.