not pumping

I don’t think you’re over inflating it, just sounds like you need some practice pumping up. Go to your local spot and offer to pump up other people’s kites for them. Practice makes perfect!

I wouldn't be so sure, my link does the same thing from time to time.
Sometimes the stopper ball in the valve doesnt come foward enough to close the valve. I give the valve a bit of a wiggle before disconnecting the pump and the ball usually locates correctly.

My Fuels do this occasionally. I usually squeeze the base of the valve where the ball is to loosen it up before pulling out the pump. The ball sometimes sticks.

My Waroo lost the centre strut valve ball not too long ago. I was pumping and the nozzle slipped out of the valve (as it sometimes does when pumping up hard), and as it did I saw and heard the ball whizz past my face

Tried looking for it, but no joy in a 20kts on a near white sanded beach - so now I gotta pinch it which is not too big a deal, but always seem to lose more than I want

For the other struts, sometimes I notice the ball is not centred on the valve before removing pump nozzle, so a bit of a twist of the strut (towards ground) to let gravity helpout whilst removing pump always seems to do the trick.

A fair few fuels lose their stopper balls-
inside their main bladder I have noticed, over 10 kites that I know of. Sometimes my 8m gives me a bit of grief because it's got smaller bladders but it's pretty easy to get your finger on top of the valve and lose next to nothing, just ask anyone that learnt on kites pre 2003.

yeah seriously people need to harden the ....... up.

squeeze it or do the finger thing over the top thing.

you have a frikken one pump kite and you still complain!

get these kids on 8 pump kites with no stoppers, no pump leashes and crappy plastic shaft pumps that crap out at 4psi.

When placing your finger over the airvalve just remember to wear gloves (figure 1) to prevent an Air embolism from killing you.

figure 1.


Be carefull out there people!

Thanks choady. and to that carbine dude. the reason that i ask this question is because i worked for a whole ****ing year to buy this kite which is already starting to stuff up. and its bloody hard to earn that amount of money when u r only 15.

Getting back to the topic people..........

I have the 9 and 13 Rev, and also owned a 7 fuel a year ago until upgrading to the rev.

My 7 fuel did this occassionally but worked fairly consistently. I always give the ball a wiggle and try to twist the kite to point the valve downwards so that the ball drops down and plugs the valve.

My 9 rev works almost everytime with that method.

My 13 Rev almost never works properly. I think it worked once when I first bought it but I could be wrong. It reduces the air lost but never seals properly. I suspect there is a daggy bit around the sealing surface because the ball does what it should but never seals properly.

Jacky, I feel your frustration. It gives me the shytes too. But show me a stopperball inflation valve that is 100% reliable. I've used Naish, Wipika, Best, Slingshot and they all do it.

What size Rev do you have? I put 8 psi into my 13 Rev and 9psi into my 9 Rev. If its not blowin over 25 knts then 8psi is fine for the 9m.
The smaller kites need a little more than reccomended because of the thinner LE.

If your learning then I reccomend you put about 1-1.5 psi less into them to soften the thrashing they're gunna get.

lol bell il give him that one.. u do need 2 go back 2 school.

but as for valves n shyt. take it back ask for a refund if it bothers u so much, id be pissed off if my valves kept on leaking and popping open or if stoppers didnt work LOLOLOLOL

but seriously.. put ur little index finger over the little inflate valve. stopper balls are stupid and yeah just use ur little finger n plug the little hole. little

WTF is wrong with some of you? (aimed at poor spelling, ego tripping, keyboard warriors) especially those of you who haven't even got a real job let alone passed year 12. The original post was a reasonable question about an expensive kite not doing what its claimed to do from someone who is obviously new to the sport, really I hope i never have to meet you guys in person as you come across as a bunch of ****ers

Hey Walshd. iv got a 9 meter rev

ok atomic ur hell cool. i dont see y u would want to pump 13psi into a kite or where you would find a pump that could handle that as most pumps are rated at maxing out at 12 which means ud normally get 10 if ur luky and then ur pump would die after doing so 3 times over.

meanwhile i had a lovely session today on my kite that was pumped to 6 maybe 7 psi without a guage and without a stopper ball. i then went out to have a lovely time at mullaloo on my greeny brown poo colour kite which is a very very nice kite at a very nice and affordable price. go talk to jason at west oz if anyone feels like trying out a liquid force hifi for a sweet wakestyle and pretty smooth loooping kites.

it was sucha drag pumping up tho as i had to use my finger to cover the hole b4 plugging it to ensure i ddnt loose too much air.



AS FOR jackys actual post.. ul find that if u shake the kite a little n watch the ball fall into place you wont have any issues, when i had waroos i foudn they did the same thing, when u pull the nossle out and the ball doesnt fall into place at once the pressure made by the air leaving the valve pins the ball into a corner and it cannot roll into place.

Cwamit and gerard, LMFAO.