How depower kite bridles work?

Answer 1

The kite uses a pully system to change the direction of pull. on one end there is the kite, in the middle the pully, and on the other the controll bar. these controls most often have 4 lines attached. 2 conrolls, left ( red ) and blue ( right ) which pull from the leading edge of the kite ( the front facing into the wind ) bridals.

Bridals are mearly the connection means to take the pull of one line and split it into several, theus dissapating the force pull on the line over the area of the kite... think of it this way, a single line pulled with the force these kites generate would tear the fabric, but the same force over 20 anchor points will not.

the other 2 lines are the break lines, the ones you affect bu pulling the bar in ( powering up ) and pushing it out ( de powering ) they controll the shape and wind profile with relation to the wind force, pulling the brake lines all the way causes the kite to dump almost all of its wind and narrows its profile.... on some trainer kites this is accomp;lished by means of a 3rd line that is a brake line attached to brake bridals that connect to the trailing edge of the kite ( end most downwind ) and if fully active, the brake line emergency collapses the kite.