Kite Surfing Safety - Testing your Quick Release Systems

• Look for two tables that measure approximately four feet high. Put them together with a distance of about 40 - 50 cm.
• Put the Kite Surfing Control Bar between the two tables.
• Put on your Kite Surfing apparel like your Kite Harness, gloves, and impact vest. Wear your summer and winter kite surfing alternately if you do both.
• Check whether you use a fixed or a chicken loop. If you use a fixed loop, hang yourself in the air by hooking into it.
• Grab the bar and within 10 seconds, try to unhook yourself from the fixed loop. If you were unable to unhook from the fixed loop, its either you need a longer fixed loop, a quick release on your fixed loop, or more lift up exercise.
• Find the quick release on your fixed loop. Try to find it within 10 seconds, and then activate it while hanging in the air.
• On the other hand, if you have a chicken loop, fasten your loop to the bar to suspend yourself in the air.
• Grab the bar. Try to unhook yourself from the chicken loop within 10 seconds successfully. If you were unable to do this simple test, you need a quick release.
• Conversely, bind the shackle line to the bar when shackling in. Shackle in to hang yourself in the air. Try to unshackle within 10 seconds.