Kite Strings

I'm thinking of either buttons on the fingers, bite switches, and as a last resort, some sort of "anal squeeze" tool we insert before launch and "clench" for each stage of release. Butt seriously, I don't enjoy putting things in my mouth but do feel comfortable pushing buttons on...

lol....hmmmm...and that guy would be???

Who makes something like the Koch release here in the states? I looked online and couldn't find any new Kochs, only used old Kochs.
(This is too funny.)

One of the owners didn't like platform launching anyway... Any idea why? I hope it was a good reason 'cause if I had to chose between foot with a clean, stowable, brain wave controlled two stage release or platform with a couple of barrels on my hips I'd go with the latter. Doesn't take much of a c...

Ya go with what makes the most sense after a sane process of threat assessment. I'd say that foot over dolly in this environment is a no brainer. But is there something taking platform off the table or making it less desirable? Yeah, the owners of the rig and most of us were only towing pg and the ...

The only two good excuses for it are that the terrain is unsuitable or you're trying to teach foot launching in preparation for the slopes. Yep. That's our situation. The road is loose gravel with berms on either side. We have a cart we're going to experiment with, but controlling it on the surface...

What do you idea guys think would be the "ideal" release for surface towing. I've read up on the aerotow threads, but I am doing the surface tow thing here in Albuquerque and so far, we have one advanced instructor using a three string (L/D) release to his hewett 2:1 bridle and me using my...

Glad to be reading some more rational thoughts here. I'm a pessimist (I say realist, some say pessimist) and still try to take the attitude that everything will fail and have a response loaded to each failure. You are very correct that a side-wire failure is going to be catastrophic and probably fat...