A 5th line will completely change the way you kiteboard. With this new 5th line you have further enhances safety standards, performance and water relaunch while introducing this revolutionary innovation. You can upgrade all 2004 North Kites with the 5th Element making them more stable and perform much better and also being much safer for you and the ones around you. 5th Element will come already set up so there are no hassles on your first day and it doesn't take any more effort to wind up or unwind them, and you don't feel anything else but better performance when flying them. You can also upgrade your older Scepter 04 bar with a 5th Element Upgrade. All kites can be flown with the same bar, just the short line attached in the middle of the leading edge has to be adjusted to the different kite sizes. Instructions will be attached to all bars or upgrades.
SAFETY
The 5th Element line set permits anyone, from novice to pro, to easily and conveniently use a kite leash. The leash can be short and inconspicuous, or it can be a long handle-pass leash like the pros use. In either case, releasing the chickenloop quick-release while leashed-in causes the kite to depower immediately and totally and with no line tangles.
Whether you ride unhooked, spin, try a water relaunch for the first time or practice a handle pass, all maneuvers, including the latest tricks, can now be performed with the safety leash of the 5th Element.
As soon as you pull the Quick Release or let go of the bar it slips up the safety line. The kite is then completely depowered and comes down without twisting the lines.
One additional benefit of the 5th Element is that it makes dragging upwind to reach a lost board much easier.
PERFORMANCE
The 5th Element stabilizes the kite's arc and thus clearly increases performance. Enhanced profile stiffness brings considerable advantages in depowered situations and increases the kite's wind range. As a result, the kite flies closer to the wind window and responds more directly to steering impulses.
While arc-shaped inflatable kites have a marvelous simplicity, they also have a tendency to change shape as the wind increases and decreases and as load goes from front lines to back lines or vice versa. While it's possible to control such unstable tendencies in conventional four-line kites, such control comes at a cost: more drag. The 5th Element line set offers a low-drag solution to maintaining kite shape stability, thereby permitting higher performance in every respect.
5th Element-equipped kites have greater high end, greater range, and quicker turning. Because of the better high end they have better lift, which makes for higher jumps. Because low end power is in no way reduced by the 5th Element line set, such kites also have excellent hang time.
DESIGN
The 5th Element system has two lines coming through the bar. One is the ordinary depower line that ends in the depower system and continues from there as the power frontline. The second is our safety frontline to which you attach your safety leash. When you release the safety mechanism, the bar slips up along this line and completely depowers the kite.
RELAUNCH
When the kite is on the waterafter you crashed or let go of the bar, the 5th Element system allows you to relaunch without swimming.
 Keeping tension on the middle line, reload the chickeloop if necessary, and hook in if you want. To get started again, use the middle line to pull the bar toward you. |
 If you pull the back lines simultaneously, the kite will slowly come off the water. |
 The harder you pull on the side of the bar, the faster and lower the kite will start in |
 If you only pull gently, the kite will move as usual to the edge of the wind window for relaunch. |
 No unsafe pulls or drags. No more swimming! |
 All steps in amimation |
