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Looks like death trap to me... but at least a cheap one.
Why what's wrong with this kite?
Too small, too old, couldn't buy spares if need be.
and look at the design lol, its got a nose
If you were around 50-60kg it could be an ok cheap option, these kites flew fine back in the day.
I just can't understand why the "nose" design never took off.
hi there, i have a cabrihna vector 2012 model and are just starting out as well ( still learning water starts as well). the only thing i find on this kite is the steering lines always seem slacker/loser then the centre lines? compared to the kite i was learning on. i might have to adjust the bar lines? are all the lines even on your vector? cheers.
Cabrinha switchblade. The depower when you let go of the bar is beyond INSANE. And you can depower it even further if there is a heavy gust coming by pushing the bar away against a spring. Cabrinha rate the depower as only 8/10 for the switchblade. Don't even know which of their kites they rate at 10/10...
I remember I selflanded the 9m (2014) and put the bar on the floor during quite gusty winds, ready to walk past the bar and then pull the uppermidline... When suddenly the girl who sat on a horse for ages just standing there quite far away (maybe 12-14 years old, wtf is she doing on her own riding a horse on the beach) decided to SUDDENLY gallop towards the kite at high speed. I couldn't push the safty as you can't really "push" a safty without being hooked into the chickenloop or have something pull on the loop. I figured trying to reattach the kite to my harness would take too long and if I lift up the bar/chickenloop from the ground it may cause the kite to jump into the air due to the gusty wind and scare the horse. So I tried to just hold still for a few seconds.
Maybe it was the horse gallopping by the kite and creating some extra wind or just a random gust, but the kite got lifted in the air and dropped itself directly into the powerzone. I was kneeling down as I just dropped the bar on the floor and I got ready for the kite to drag me on the stone beach. Funny enough nothing much happened, there was a pull but i don't think it would have knocked me over while standing.
The kite then dropped at about 6 o clock just to get lifted back in the air and flew to the left and drop to the edge of the window at which point I sort of leaped
1m forward towards the bar pulled the chicken loop with my finger towards me and then pushed the safty. Some nice guy in his 60s or 70s came down from the road nearby and picked my kite up so I didn't make a mess of my lines pulling the flagged kite towards me.
I learned my lesson from this though. Particularly careful with dogs far away these days...
edit: mitchy73 I think that's normal for cabrinha kites. My switchblade also always seems to have really slack steering lines. On the 2016 Airush Lithium (prototype 
) the lines seem even more slack...
