Nice article, particularly on the conditioning exercises! Thanks for putting it together. Some more info appears below:
Some other things that can help in addition to warming up and down for sessions include trimming kites for lower bar pressure. This often means trimming on the pigtails in the middle area or closer to the end of the pigtails. If this leaves you without enough power, rig a larger kite or sit this one out. Using the proper sized bar for a given kite can also help. IF your kite has a good stopper system consider using this to ease the load when well offshore in steady wind when not setting up for jumps or tricks. Using kites with known lower bar pressures and smaller kites can help as well.
One thing that I have found helps with irritation like this are ice massages (although not nearly as well as avoidance in the first place!). Freeze a styrofoam cup of water, peel a 1/2 inch or so off the bottom exposing a lump of ice. Press this lightly into the irritated area with circular motions. You can also buy plastic cups for this purpose:
http://www.chirocity.com/index.asp?P...OD&ProdID=1272
More kiteboarding ideas on dealing with kiters elbow appear at:
http://www.kiteforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2315961
http://www.kiteforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2315982
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