Over the last year or so I have been not to secretly involved in organising an expedition in Iceland.
Three members of the British Disabled Ski Team want to become the first disabled athletes to cross the Vatnajokull Glacier in Iceland by snow-kite.
This is a hugh challenge. Not only do I have to teach the guys how to kite, and becoming damn good at it too; but I also have to design the rig
they'll need to snow-kite successfully, as none of the guys have the use of their legs.
We're making unbelievable progress; the guys are turning into very competent kiters, the rig is working well beyond our wildest desires, and we've
secured various sponsors to help us: not least of which is that Flexifoil are building bespoke de-power kites for the guys to use throughout the
crossing.
The only thing we need to do now is secure a video production deal, and to help us do this we've put together a showreel of our progress so far. Our
aim is to get to 1,000,000 hits by the end of the summer, so please, watch the video, visit the site, follow us on FB and Twitter, and tell your
friends!
Unbelievable, a perfect example of the human spirit and will to go on. A must to support, lets help them get that 1,000,000 hits
Flexi Sting 1.2m
Sensei 3m Trainer
Beamer 1.4m,3m
Viper 5.3
Maybe a more bigger kite!!!!
ETC...ETC..ETC.......
Land Lizard
This #@%$#!$ IS CRAZY ADDICTIVE
Good luck with your adventure! Your wellcome to tap me for what I know about kite sledding either on the forum or email. I did a quick test of seat
stearing this past winter and found it creates some additional issues , you guys and gals are going to be busy.
2.6 , 3.9 , 5.3 , 6.8 PL Vipers
5 , 7.5 HQ Apex II
14m HQ Montana VII
5m naish element
7m ss turbo diesel
10m pansh blaze
5m beamer dearly departed into a tree
3 "snowspider" homebuilt kite sleds
3 homebuilt buggies
1 skate board with seat on wheels or blades (the c0ckroach)
Thanks for all your support and enthusiasm guys & gals! It's good to know you like the idea!
I don't know if I can make a mobile version of the video: I'm not in charge of looking after the youtube page and website, but I'll suggest to the guy
who's running that side of things and see what can be done.
Originally posted by Kieron
Thanks for all your support and enthusiasm guys & gals! It's good to know you like the idea!
I don't know if I can make a mobile version of the video: I'm not in charge of looking after the youtube page and website, but I'll suggest to the guy
who's running that side of things and see what can be done.
Thanks !!! I often want to show videos from my phone, but this one won't play.
I believe increasing the playback options will help the hit count rise...
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
For those who have watched the video - I think it would help if everyone go back and give it a "LIKE" - thumbs up - will improve its ratings and will
get more people interested in it.
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