Synergy Deca Flying 1

Basic Flying

1. Assuming you have got the kite up to the top you can try moving the kite around.
2. As with all Quad Kite flying it's more about keeping your hands together and moving your wrists, rather than pulling on the handles (although there is a fair amount of that later on).
3. To turn left push your left thumb forward, whilst keeping your right thumb back.
4. To turn right push your right thumb forward, whilst keeping your left thumb back.
5. These are the basic turns - you need to practice these, but basically the more and longer you push your thumb (and therefore the handle) forward, the more and quicker the kite will turn.
6. What you will notice is that the kite will continue to turn after you have stopped turning (i.e. put both your thumbs back). To turn well you need to actually stop turning before the kite does. You can correct and overturn in one direction by a very quick turn in the other, but it doesn't look as nice.....
7. If you keep turning with a thumb pushed in, and the other back then kite will spin. Usually (at least when I do this) the kite spins downwards. This can be corrected but takes practice.

What could go wrong?

• If the kite rises up, but then goes back down check that you haven't moved your thumbs back forward during the take off (most people do this at first).
• If the Deca rises, but then kind of tips forward, then floats to the ground you have pulled too far back with your thumbs and the kite has gone into the inverted hover position (where the sail is parallel to the ground).
• If the Deca spins then you will find that both thumbs were not pulled back the same - one thumb was further than the other - this causes the kite to turn, and if not corrected, to spin.
• If everything looks OK then it's worth while checking the line lengths - all 4 lines should be exactly the same length.