Adjust your lowkite
Add brake to reduce the window, depower, and front stall.
You can adjust the length of the back lines connected to the trailing edge on all GONG lowkites.
To do this, simply loosen the lark’s head knot located at the base of your lowkite’s brake line (the line that’s connected to the last point of your bar) and reattach it to the lower knot.
What is this adjustment for?
There are two positions for setting the brakes on your lowkite.
- Factory setting designed to maximize glide (improving upwind ability and acceleration).
- Alternative setting with several effects:
- More brake, which translates to a more direct bar control.
- A noticeably smaller window.
- Reduced depower range, which is more comfortable when you need the lowkite to support you. However, you can no longer fully neutralize the power.
- By adding brake, you prevent the lowkite from rising too far up in the window, reducing the risk of front stall / collapse.
In other words, this adjustment mainly helps to stabilize your lowkite within the window, at the expense of depower and upwind performance.
This setting can be useful if you like riding hooked into your harness, with full control over your heading and power. In light wind and without a harness, recentering the lowkite into the power zone of the window using this adjustment can also be interesting.
It’s also a good way to better understand how your lowkite works, so don’t hesitate to experiment on land! The adjustment only takes a few seconds.
Standard setting: left image. Shortened back line: right image
