Bridle Design

The bridle is one of the most important parts of a kite in determining how it flies (or not!). This section includes some posts from the early days of my research in bridle technology.

• Static Bridle Design

  An introduction to the principles of static bridle design.

• Dynamic Bridles #1

  An introduction to the Dynamic Bridle, complete with Crap ASCII-Art (tm).

• Dynamic Bridles #2

  Follow-up post (some time later) to the above.

• Dynamic Bridles #3

  A simple procedure for converting a static bridle to a dynamicone.

• Wishbone

  Adding a wishbone to improve stalling (Inner Space)

• Ian's Bridle

  Ian Newham describes a no-knot dynamic bridle conversion.

• Dave's Active Box #1

  David Lindgren has a perfect evening with his Activated Box of Tricks.

• Dave's Active Box #2

  Follow-up to Dave's post.