Power Kite Forum - Seems crazy now

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posted on 28-9-2010 at 10:54 PM

Seems crazy now

Was just watching this vid - amazing that someone would use a 2 line inflatable c-kite to pull off the maneuvers that this guy is doing. Also interesting to see how he sets up a load and pop without depower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFVKGbvD_g&NR=1

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posted on 28-9-2010 at 11:09 PM

Wow! Strapless too ... and leashless :lol:

Yeah... I got a kite. Or two...

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 03:10 AM

Imagine the air this guy would get with depower. Cool series of videos too.

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 05:05 AM

appears he's a wakestyle guy..........................Wainman makes a great kite as well

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 06:37 AM

:wow:

Wish I had seen this video 8 years ago, so instead of learning load and pop here in 2010 id be on the cover of kiteboarding magazine kitelooping while Susi Mai cheered me on from the beach *drool*

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 09:55 AM

cool

there is also some "oooooolllllld school" videos of a guy (hawaiian i think) that modded his Flexi Blades to two lines. he is on the water doing huge boosts and they are super soft boost not yankety yankety yanks stuff. he was selling the blades on the bay i think a 5-6 months back and that's how i got the link.

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 02:51 PM

The 4.9m blade III I have I bought about 3 years ago from a guy in southern California and he had taken off the brakes for possibly the same reason. Luckily he included the brakes in the deal and I was able to sort them out after some diligent effort of untangling the birds nests of lines. Taking a blade out on the water seems even crazier than flying a 2 line inflateable.

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 02:57 PM

she was here this summer on the red bull tour stop......WOWZA!! oh yeah she can kite too................. :smilegrin:

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Wish I had seen this video 8 years ago, so instead of learning load and pop here in 2010 id be on the cover of kiteboarding magazine kitelooping while Susi Mai cheered me on from the beach *drool*

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posted on 29-9-2010 at 04:12 PM

Lou and Flash and Robbie Naish. My original heros!

Lou and Robbie both sell depower kites now.

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