lmuliolis - 2-8-2009 at 05:20 AM
I am looking for a complete (used or new if its cheap!) package. Can same kite be used for land (seen videos of power kiting on sand dunes on
Youtube).... Also interested in a board to take on water. Somewhat urgent as we are going to outer banks this month! Any suggestions welcome to as
I know very little about this sport so far. Also would a jet ski be able to tow a person with this kind of kite?
THANKS!
B-Roc - 2-8-2009 at 05:46 AM
I think you are biting off more than you can chew. I would suggest you start with a trainer kite on land. Learn basic safety and flight principles.
Practice body-dragging and relaunching, etc. and then try with a board and a bigger kite. Learning to kite, board, and be pulled by a jetski all on
the same kite when you've never flown before is almost certainly a recipe for disaster. If this is a sport you are serious about entering, you will
last longer if you enter it slowly and smartly. If you go out and by the biggest, liftiest kite you can find and try to learn on, I don't see you
enjoying the sport as I think you will be so intimidated, overpowered and over your head so fast, you'll sell the gear about as fast as you bought it.
Or you will seriously hurt yourself or someone else and potentially hurt the sport for all of us who are already in it and practicing safe and
responsible kiting.
The smarter option may be to hook up with some locals or find an instructor and use their gear and pay for their class so you can be exposed to the
sport safely and then determine what you want to do based on how much you can afford to spend.
snobdr - 2-8-2009 at 05:47 AM
Take your money and goto Real for kiteboarding lessons.
Good advice
lmuliolis - 2-8-2009 at 06:17 AM
Yeah thats good advice, thanks - hadn't thought it all through yet but my expectations were step by step - first see how it goes on sand dunes.....
What I shouljd have made more clear is that I was hoping I could work with something I can upgrade or add too instead of replacing... I am not into
spending thousands of dollars on this, wouldn't get enough chances to make it worth it...