l'm new at this and was trying to figure the no hands kiting thing also.
My theory: If you are flying paramotor straight and level hands off then that air speed is the windspeed you would need to kite hands off. thats the balance point. At that windspeed i would be afraid to kite as you would be on the edge of being lifted off and dragged. (The guy did say the other guys wing was half the size of his. I suspect the big guy had trimmers out to not get dragged. they are at the beach with smooth constant wind. )
Now if you kite in less wind with hands off why does the glider go forward and tuck? Well if you were flying with some brake pressure and released what is the glider going to do? its going to dive forward trying to get to its balanced airspeed. on the ground, you can't dive with the wing, the gound is in the way. you can run but you would get light as you got close to that balance point unless you had a smaller wing.
Letting trimmers out would require more airspeed.
So i accept i have to use brakes with my wing when kiting or kite at the beach with higher windspeed with a smaller wing.
