Ohhh I think I get it - you set the angle of the board for max turning radius by leaning it over, then use your body weight up and down to carve the turn ... I bet that'd feel right like a snowboard etc ...
Is there any 'resistance' to the board roll or does it just heel right over easy?

Sorry I am not sure to understand your first sentence (sorry my american is not very good). In fact , since you can adjust the board heigth, you lower the heel side(left on video) and rise the toes side(right on the video below) so the board is tilted but does not turn (again it's only an option)

tilted flexboardz video (kite option)

Yes, there ie a resistance to the board roll (return to zero). In addition, you can adjust it to your taste (for instance make it hard on the heel side and soft on the toes side)

I would be interested in having your opinion on the japanese powerkite scene

My American is pretty bad too - I use the Queen's English ok bad joke

I meant, in the vid it looked like the board just flops straight to its max lean (and the smallest turn radius) and then the rider 'drives' the board through the turn by pumping his body, as you do on a snowboard ... or as you SHOULD on a snowboard

Japanese kite scene is ... me we got a bunch of kite surfers here but I've only ever seen one other guy on a landboard, and he was a crusty old dude ... a few scattered stunt kiters too. The problem is the areas you could ride are over-regulated and quickly get too crowded ... and they're small

You could sell here, but I think it'd still be a real niche product I'd market the board as like summer snowboarding practice or if there's an ATB scene (don't know about that) then promote that heavily. I think Europe, the US and Australia/New Zealand would be the best markets ... I do see a number of guys around on long skateboards ...

I could be wrong though - send me a board and I'll go zooming around towns on it see what we can stir up :D

Queen's english is to complicated for me...so I stick on pidgin
I suspected what you said about the japanese powerkiting scene (lack of space, crowd, regulation...)
However, the snowboarding scene in Japan is quite heavy (i believe) so the downhill mtb should have some future in Japan (as you said, Flexboardz ride is very similar to snowboarding)...
otherwise, an electric powered flexboardz (see pic of electric accessory below) could find its niche to snowboard the city (we will have a better version with electric hub soon)

Yeah mad popular here, snowboarding is ... and they do love their gizmos

lots of folks in asia will buy outdoor gadgets and hardly ever use them, my favorites are the fully decked out MTB riders with full downhill bikes and all the crash gear / helmets riding around town having trouble shifting the gears and messing up little curb hops.

so the combo of snow board madness and gadget freaks in japan might work out well....

Thanks for these encouraging advices !
our main problem is that we generally rely on word of mouth to enter new markets...and the Japaneses do not read a lot of english info...Do you have advices about how (forum, video website,...) we could send info for the japanese or asian riders? Thanks for your help

I'll ask my buddy with a shop in Shizuoka if he minds me giving you his email address, if you like ...

Thanks for your help Kamikuza

if you buddy with a shop in Shizuoka want to contact me he can do it at info@flexboardz.com

U2u sent

thanks !

Hiya,
Sorry new to this site, haven't sussed out how to do the quotey bit! Bladerunner, you asked how do people with no previous board skills take to this style?
It's perfect. We bought the old Haize back in 2004/5 when we didn't really know a huge amount about kiting & still hadn't sussed out that soft sand was the enemy; this thing was amazing for us. It rockets upwind, it's really fast & we never reached the point of speed wobble even as newbies who wobble enough on their own! As I downhill board I personally found it quite scary as it was too fast for me, but hubby loved it. We ended up selling our original scrub board because this was all we used. Once he started jumping we'd invested in an MBS board for me for downhiller, but hubby could get sooo much higher on the Flexboardz than my Core 8 which didn't really make sense given the weight difference. However, once he wanted to move on from straight jumps then we needed a lighter board. It still comes out loads though. We've taught so many people on it who had in their minds they wanted to learn kitelandboarding but just couldn't get to grips with it as they had no previous board skills & were on the verge of giving up. It's wicked on those days where you just want to blast as fast as possible. To me it's a bit like a dirtsurfer though - really fun to play about with, but I'm guessing it would either be something that opens up the market more to entice cruisers, speed freaks & flatland freestylers, or people like me who need to have other toys to play with to distract from the frustration when you just can't nail that new trick you've been trying for ever on your number 1 toy! Wicked fun, definitely give one a blast :D

Thanks for your feed back ! (it's really a great pleasure for me to see that I (modestly) contributed to give fun to someone)

I am (happily) surprised about what you said about higher jump compared to Core 8 (I am not really into jumping) or maybe I misunderstood. Can you give a bit more explanation please?

To reinsure you about our future, I will add that before Flexboardz happens to be widely known, we will have much lighter boards able to compete with other brands