Relaunching an SLE/bow kite

MOVE: Relaunching an SLE/bow kite

RIDER: Jeremie Tronet

PHOTOS: Linn Svendsen

What goes up must come down, and then go back up again! Here, Jeremie Tronet takes all our newbies through the simple steps to getting the kite back into the air after a crash

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• When you crash your kite on the water, most of the time the leading edge of your kite ends up lying on the surface of the water in front of you, in the middle of the wind window. If not then your kite will already be at the edge of the wind window anyway, and all you have to do is relaunch it normally.

• The SLE and bow kites have an amazingly simple ability to relaunch and have made the learning curve much quicker for learners by reducing the amount of time they spend swimming after a crashed kite. So here's how to do it:
 
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