General Line Maintenance:
Your kite lines are one of the most important things with the KiteATB setup, regularly(i.e. when you are packing and unpacking) check your lines for abrasions, wear and tear, nicks in the line, or loose threads. Also make sure that there are no knots actually on your line (from sleeving to sleeving of your line); As if there are then these can be likely points to cause the line to break under high load.

Remember you need to take care with your lines, as they are very important, especially when you are flying through the air!

How To Adjust Line Lengths:

Most kite lines will stretch when they are first used, and/or may not be equal lengths when you first start. So obviously if you find that you need to adjust the lengths, which isn't too hard all you have to do is:

• Get a stake, and loop the sleeving of the lines around the stake (place all lines at this point)
• Now go to the end of your lines, and pull on the lines, find the line which is the shortest, this will end up being the length the rest of the lines are.
• Undo the sleeving knot at the end of the line you are adjusting,
• Leave the sleeving on the line.
• Holding the end piece of line poking out of the sleeving, push the sleeving down the line and tighten it (by pulling the ends of the sleeving - imagine a Chinese finger trap: tightens against the line the more taught it is)
• When the middle of the sleeving is roughly equal with the end of the line you are comparing to (i.e. the end of the sleeving loop) you need to tie an overhand loop knot.
• Repeat until all lines are equal.
• The knot required is shown beneath:

  

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