![]() ![]() In this case, you want to leave it in a ‘parked’ position, without you to keep steering it. Imagine for example that you catch a nice wave with your surfboard (chek how to choose a good wave board here), you want to have the pure surf feeling, forgetting about your kite. Lines getting some slack can be more common in specific disciplines of water kiting than others like wave riding, jumping, or unhooking, where it is common for the rider to momentarily move faster than the kite in the downwind direction. ![]() On the opposite, a kite with a bad drift will need constant traction from the lines to prevent it to flip, back stall, overfly or fall from the sky. The second is more subtle: when the kite line slack, it means the kite flies downwind, reducing the wind pressure on the canopy, therefore the lift on the kite wing.Īs said, a kite with good drift, once the tension from the lines is drastically reduced, keeps its position flying downwind, without immediately destabilizing and crashing in the water. ![]() The first is obviously the line tension, which stabilizes the kite and gives it direction. When the lines get slacked, two main factors that help the kite to keep its position in the wind window change or disappear. Very simply, the drift is the ability of a kite to keep flying when the tension of the lines momentarily disappears (normally when the lines get a bit of slack). ![]()
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