The pre Vario Universal: a 4 line bar whose grey front lines meet high above the bar at a stainless 4 ring piece on a pulley assembly, with a single centerline running down through the bar to the Smart Loop. Power is trimmed below the bar by pulling the trim line and locking it in the jam cleat on the loop, and the leash flags the kite on one front line off that same ring. Bar length changes by flipping the plastic knot inserts in the bar ends, not by a slider.