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Very impressive video of flysurfer float

flexiblade - 23-3-2009 at 05:00 PM

The hangtime is very impressive - anyone out there with a flysurfer ever experience the same float?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUT3pwc_n4

kitedog - 23-3-2009 at 05:38 PM

That was pretty cool! Makes me want to go find a big dune!

f0rgiv3n - 23-3-2009 at 08:45 PM

Yeah that is really cool!!! ps... guess who's going to some big dunes this weekend!!! WOOO! :P It should be fun! I'm going to bruneau sand dunes.... Bringing the venom, we'll see what kinda jumps/boarding i can get in. NOTHING like that though! That was the big bird flysurfer speed!!!!

flexiblade - 23-3-2009 at 11:47 PM

Let me know how that works out with your venom - I've got some pretty good hang time on flat land - but would love to know how it does off a dune.

f0rgiv3n - 24-3-2009 at 07:27 AM

will do! :thumbup: I'm goin camping out there this weekend, so it'll be a good time ;)

B-Roc - 24-3-2009 at 09:29 AM

I like this one more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzOCEDm73tM&feature=relat...

reposted from some time ago.

flexiblade - 24-3-2009 at 10:24 PM

The thing I liked most about the first one was a guy just doing a little pop in decent winds and then floating around some small dunes, not jumping off a cliff - yes that second one is impressive, but the first one is something that a sane person could try.

shehatesmyhobbies - 28-3-2009 at 01:10 PM

I agree flexiblade ! The guy in the second video doesnt have all his fly lines straight! Both good videos though!

acampbell - 28-3-2009 at 02:12 PM

They are both essentially ridge soaring. The first guy is having some fun on soft and modest dunes, but the second guy is in line for a Darwin award. there is a reason that they make paragliders and hang gliders and a reason they are different form kites.