Bridle worn out - confirm my theory for repair please...

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[NormP]

Ara....Not sure if you are aware of this prusik knot and how it works. This is an "unlocked" double wrapped prusik. While unlocked you can slide it up or down to change your bridle setting if you so desire. Before doing so make sure your default setting is marked.
 

[NormP]

This is what it looks like in the locked position.

[Hadge]

The bridle on the early Souls had lots of knots for adjustment all over the place, LE, spine and halfway down the bridle - too much adustment really, very messy. The newer Souls like yours and Norms have a much cleaner bridle set up.  Now I've seen it I may tie up a new bridle for mine over the winter.

Hadge......Did you get my PM with the address for FW? They will mail you new (White) bridle line. Don't bother trying the customer service e-mail address provided on their website. Send a letter with what you need and they will mail it to you.

Hi Norm, sorry I haven't got back to yet on the message.  I have a big roll of bridle line in my box of bits and I quite like tying up bridles so I'll make my own when I get some time. Having looked at your photo I can now see exactly how they have made it so it should be quite easy.

[Ara Ararauna]

This is what it looks like in the locked position.

Hi Norm.

Yes thanks, I did do the prussic knot correctly 

This afternoon was a ball. I had so much fun from 4 to 6PM.
I learnt a lot and I was able to verify everything works fine. My adjustments of the bridle, my repair of the worn leader line, the pigtail adjustments...

At first the wind was pretty strong (around 15-20Km/h with strong gusts of +25Km/h). So I placed the uphaul at the last knot (12cm) and I did verify that the pull was reduced.
I could fly quite well and could do some half-axels and some spin axels (on the left side 'cause I'm right-handed).

Then at around 5PM the wind went down to quite low smooth 5-10Km/h. It was getting hard to keep the Soul in the air since the wind was quite irregular. I changed to the higher pigtail (8cm).
The change was radical!
The kite floated much better. I did not have to do so much arm-work and I started practising the spin axel on the right side and I managed to do it!
I then started to alternate one spin axel on the right and one on the left and it was so much fun!

Sorry I might sound naive or even childish silly but I wanted to transmit my joy to you and thank you for helping me out so much and making me recover the joy of flying the Soul.

Norm, Hadge really, really BIG, BIG THANKS!

N.

[NormP]

Sometimes it's challenging and fun to sort through different bridle set-ups on the same kite. We did have a couple different ones. Before you know it you will be making a complete bridle for your Soul. Glad you are having fun with your kite now. That's what it's all about. Now start doing Fades and holding and managing them. When you can hold a Fade for one minute you'll be ready to do a couple more tricks. Glad I had a Soul as it made it easy to help you out. It's a fun and tricky kite. 

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