so after watching many videos of some of the most experienced practitioners i realized that many when performing kongs they have their legs real close together and shorter then their actual stride length ( look at blane's catpass at 4:08, his normal stride length is a lot longer then the distance his legs are for the take off of the kong, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QSegpGxucM) Stephane Vigroux also does this in archive footage of him and johann, look at about 40 seconds in, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASu88gc31wc his kong takeoff stride is much shorter then his normal strides
so i guess my overall question is what makes the kong better a longer stride takeoff or a shorter one and if you don't know, which do you do and prefer

thanks for the input but i am wondering about leg length apart not hand length

When you take off from two feet you get jump strength from both your legs instead of one without losing much forward momentum.

Depends on how you feel about it. I, personally, have my feet quite close to each other (only about a foot away from each other), but it changes depending on the situation (gets little wider when I have to clear a longer object).

When you're launching yourself forward, you are using both feet almost simultaneously. If your steps are too far away from each other, then one foot would be kicking off the ground faster than the other, thus you don't get as much benefit as when you have both of your feet punching off at the same time. Also considering the fact that right before the last two steps, you sort of skip instead of keep running. In this case you'll naturally have two short steps before launching.

Just try it yourself. I just got up and tried two different ways and it felt a lot safer and more effective with two small steps.

With me it depends what I am going for. With a traditional kong, I like a nice long step before my jump to give me more distance. That can take some getting used to, but the biggest thing to avoid is stutter stepping; taking a series of quick, hesitant steps before your jump. That will adversely affect it. Taking a short step is perfectly acceptable (If I am doing a king kong, then I do like this for some reason), just be careful to avoid hesitating.