This control bar is perfect for kiteschools... and also advanced riders! It respects the color codes for teaching, connecting the kite, etc, and has a low V. The instructor can disconnect the back lines in case the front and back lines are crossed or when teaching from a boat. Very easy to do.
Advanced riders will love this bar, because it has everything they want for freestyling, waveriding or hydrofoiling: great grip, insane swivel (the AKA 3 has a great stainless steel ball bearing), 4 direct lines, high quality lines with lowest possible stretch, easy adjustment of depower throw, huge trim.
The universal bars provide the biggest depower throw on the market. You can handle gusty winds much better, and have more fun in the waves : just push the bar and relax !
Also, some kites bars present a slight difference in the line lengths, such as the Kahoona 2011, Genetrix or kites older than 2008. You can trim the bar to offset the kite line difference (or you can use another knot on the back leader lines : see the Questions and Answers).
To trim the kite, you can pull the handle. The handle has a velcro on it, so that you can « stick » the handle to the male velcro near the clamcleat, if you trim.
The trimming handle allows you to trim the kite (in other words, you reduce the power of the kite). Moverover, it comes with a velcro, so you can « stick » the handle near the clamcleat to the male velcro, to prevent the handle from « flying around ». And you can grab it easily at any time.
We are using are the best possible components to build the Kite Attitude universal bars. Just compare each part with the competitors’s products. Look at ropes, quality of lines, quality of grip, bar centers, etc : it is at least equivalent and often better.
The bar center is molded with stainless steel: it is much stronger than CNC. Not a single bar center broke, over a production of several thousand units.
For instance:
The pulley can sustain up to 700 kg.
The depower rope is 5.5 mm wide : it can sustain 2 tons. Most depower ropes on the market are only 4 mm wide, and sometimes less.
If you wonder why the depower rope is not plastic-sheathed, here is why :
1) If you want, you can cover the depower rope with shrinkable plastic tube. You can get some some tube used by electricians to do it.
2) plastic-sheathed depower ropes usually don’t slide as well as plain ropes.
3) plastic-sheathed depower ropes need be much thiner, otherwise they cannot fit into the tubes.
4) our bar center is well rounded and really wide, so the depower rope lasts longer