Bern,
When it's blowin dogs off chains and you just want to survive and its time to jibe the best bet is to keep the main sheeted tight and jibe through the smallest angle possible. That way the main is stalled and not generating power. Once the jibe is over and the kite powered up you can readjust the main.
This works fine when flying a spinnaker - but do not try this without the spinnaker flying and a lot of boat speed. If you leave the main in tight and gybe while going slowly, the main will catch the wind on the new gybe and will likely round the boat up uncontrollably - I flipped in Charleston, SC doing this (twice) thinking that it would make the gybe easier (I didn't have the spinnaker up).
