You’re right. It’s definitely the A lines. Simple little bridle mod. Wonder if it’s hard to loop or I loop under power.
Any real world reviews of the brand Altis parawings? They have a 3.5 hybrid for <$800
I know Gav wrote in his newsletter he will be doing a review. Altis seems to describe it very different to the 777 Hybrid, emphasizing higher bar pressure and higher speed than their single skin, not increased comfort.
Looking for advice on improving depower on generic 3-attachment point straight bar. Not currently able to buy smaller wang, so stuck with 5m Smik in trade season.
Have rigged a trim loop that lengthens Z lines 3cm over factory settings, that helps but still find myself hanging off A lines for dear life trying to find more depower. Also changed to a two-point harness line with front strap forward of the A lines, after watching Aljaz’s excellent rigging breakdown on MattOnFoil, but only helps when hooked in
Keen to try the yoke/bowline setup most wangs have gone with, see if improves handling over the three-point, but havent found much online bout how to go about the re-rig, bridle lengths etc
Loop your A lines around the bar if you really need extra depower
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lengthening the Z can only do so much. Once the trailing edge is loose and starts flapping, you’re only adding extra potential for flapping. That’s something I’ve seen from using Flysurfer Peaks, extra flapping doesn’t add more depower, it actually adds more turbulence to the profile, on one hand this slows down the kite quite effectively, but it also makes it go deeper in the wind window and produces some shaking in the bar. So it can handle a lot of wind, for sure, but the range of comfortable handling is actually relatively narrow. I believe that applies to single skin parawings.
Your best option is to flatten the profile so that it shoots more to the edge of the wind window. That’s where a system like on the AFS could help, pulling a bit more on the A lines, and would be very easy to implement. There’s a limit though, eventually, the AOA would be too small, and the leading edge would get more prone to collapsing. Need to retain some sort of balancing with the rest of the bridle.
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Thanks Alex, appreciate the explanation, partic influencing where wing sits in window and flattening profile limits. starting to get an idea how these wangs behave 
headed out again now, will try trim loop on the front lines AFS-style.
And thanks Angus. Smik lines are just looped onto the bar, not tied, so will need to add a trim loop to get that adjustment.
To be a bit clearer- the total loading I’m cool with, its how that centre-of-pull moves for’d of the front of the bar forcing you to hang off the front lines that sucks