pongnut
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PL Twister 5.6 ok for snowboarding?
Just curious if any of you have tried a Twister 5.6 or similar with snowboard or skates? If so, how well does that combo work?
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ripsessionkites
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dunno your wind conditions but if you're on ice or hard packed the 5.6m is fine assuming you have wind
for me i don't use anything smaller than 11m FB or a 15m DP. i use a snowboard.
also you have to consider wind conditions + snow terrain (powder vs say a freeze lake vs rolling hills)
pongnut
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Understood. Will probably just have to take it out and give it a go when wind opportunities present themselves. Still, would be cool to hear some
other folk describe their experience with Twisters in the winter...
2m Radsails Pro (from crazyherb), 2.1m Symphony Beach II (from Amazon), 3m HQ Beamer IV (from K-Bid), 4m Pansh Flux (from garydog), 4.7m Flexifoil
Rage (from mougl), 5.6m PL Twister IIR (from Big Mike), 6m Flysurfer Peak 1 (from Flysurfer USA), 11m HQ Neo II (from kiteplace), 19m PL Venom II
(from Smeagol), MBS Core 95 ATB (from Overstock.com), couple of ROSSIGNOL snowboards w/ SIS "click" bindings
indigo_wolf
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It's the 7.7 (Twister Gen I) rather than the 5.6 and skis rather than board. However, the wind is listed as low (2-9 knots). In either case.....
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bobalooie57
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Worth giving it a try in 15 or so for sure. If it works you'll have a blast! On a board, you will probably want to hook in to a harness, though.
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any kite will work on snow, long as you have wind. I did find that my fixed bridle kites would fill up with snow when you fly them during a flurry
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Those ski's look like 50's! :-p
I so need to try my pepper2 8m this winter!
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