Any suggestions are great! I am 115lbs. Usually about 10mph where I live.

How long have you been flying and how many hours do you have logged?

novice kiters and jumping do not work well together--watch some u tube videos--lots of PAIN---save yourself some broken bones or worse and get a landboard or buggy--jumping isnt safe--not even for experts.........

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Originally posted by Txshooter38 How long have you been flying and how many hours do you have logged?

umm gosh I don't know lol. I am buying my first traction kite so i am a begginer to traction kiting but i've used a stunt kite quite a bit.

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Originally posted by landon96 I am buying my first traction kite so i am a begginer to traction kiting but i've used a stunt kite quite a bit.

Do you know what you plan to buy? You shouldn't be buying one to jump on just yet, that's kite number two or better three if you are on your own.

How much money do you reckon on spending?

The stunt kite experience is a good plus, you'll know the wind window and not have too many hassles with the lines and bridles.

Around 400$ or so. about 4 meters or larger

You need to start on 2-2.5 meters and get really good on that, 3m max. Then buy a kite 4+ plus.

I just bought a used 4.1 twister for teaching folks, it was $160. You could buy a really nice 2.5 or 3 m kite for the other $240 you'd have out of your $400.

There are thread on here about folks -- 200# adults -- flying 6m as their as their first and breaking their legs after ten minutes.

An experienced kite dealer on here is still recovering from breaking 14 ribs quite a few months ago. He's a big dude and he was something smaller than 3m at the time.

he's not lying either...

We cannot stress enough how easily people break ankles/legs/hips/EVERYTHING when they get tossed by a kite. Tsunami or wind gust, there is no beating mother nature.

If you want to kite jump, what sort of place are you planning on doing it at? Sand is really the only place to kitejump at all 'safely', it seems, and I am using the quotations because it's the absolute loosest sense of the term.

What is the biggest kite you have experience on? How much experience with the kite? We love to see people get into the sport but we hate to see anybody get injured.

+1 for a Twister 4.1, but only if you're especially daring... that kite is a monster for its size... I do love mine oh so much, though. It might possibly be the most fun kite I've ever flown. Just be prepared to get hurt and get hurt bad. And get used to looking down and seeing your feet dangling over the ground, whether you meant to do it or not

Yep I advised this big 290# fella to buy one during a texas winter two Christmases ago... He sold it quick to size down and that's when I knew I would need to buy one someday....



@landon 96: look at this way.... Would you rather spend three months (if you're relatively lucky) healing from a broken bone or two or would you rather spend three months learning to fly a smaller safer kite? There is no safe in this business, only a choice between safer or riskier. "Safer" is kind of a bad word to use because it sounds so much like that word "Safe".

You were ready to go straight to an eight meter on your other thread, mate. That's a very risky way to do it.

then you could keep me company on here in the middle of the night. (TRUST ME YOU DON'T WANT TO JOIN MY CLUB)

Hmm well thanks a lot! Im really excited for my rush pro 300 do drag me across the snow lol

there ya go--lots of fun and pretty safe.......

You are facing the age old problem of the beginer.

Lesson #1 NO single kite can do everything for you. Accepting this fact is very important.
Lesson #2 You get what you pay for.

The right kite for jumping is the wrong kite for learning. No matter how athletic you are you will be best off starting with a smaller kite to learn the ropes. You won't exactly grow out of that kite but use it later as your high wind kite + for training friends who want to join you.

Here is the catch .... You need a larger kite to properly land once you are lifted. A kite smaller than 5m will drop you like a rock OR WORSE unless you have some fantastic flying skills. 5m and bigger you can ride down landing safe and soft.

Trying too learn with too big a kite is counter productive. You only start to learn how to fly proper when YOU are master of the kite. You can master a 3m pretty quickly. You will end up struggling to control a larger kite and it will control you. You won't be learning so much as saving yourself from getting hurt at 1st on a big kite. Please trust us when we tell you the tried and true method is to start out with about a 3m kite then choosing a kite that will best suit our needs as the second one.

If you buy a good quality 3m kite re-selling should be easy with very little loss. Odds are you will keep it.

Buy a good 3m and fly it until it can be done blind. Save for the second kite. IT will be the one that will do the stuff you are looking to do and you will be ready !

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Yep I advised this big 290# fella to buy one during a texas winter two Christmases ago... He sold it quick to size down and that's when I knew I would need to buy one someday

Sounds familiar. I think it was 3 though.

I advise against the 4.1 only due to your experience. its a great kite, but you aren't there yet. pick up a nice 2-3m kite and really get to know it before getting out there and trying to get airborne with something. Safety is first. it will keep you flying longer.

A 3m kite is really the ideal size... I mean, you COULD do the 4.1, but you wouldn't be able to throw it around like a 3m kite. Also, a lot of Peter Lynn fixed bridle kites are sold out from the manufacturer. Ask around to find out who has what in stock. Try this:

Mike (Akulakat): Bigmikeskites.com

Ricardo (Ripsessionkites), Ken (Bladerunner): Ripsessionkiteboarding.com

Kent (Awindofchange): Awindofchange.com

Dino (DAKITEZ): Dakitez.com

Angus (acampbell): Coastalwindsports.com

Donnie (WELDNGOD), PHREERIDER, some others: Eastcoastkitesports.com

A few more here and there, but a lot of those people should chime in sooner or later.

Also check the for sale list on this forum. People sell lots of stuff on here. I got most of my kites from the for sale section

@Landon96 - I'm in Elkins, WV and fly a 4.1 Twister II (thanks Dino) among a few other kites, perhaps we can connect sometime and you can try it out my gear to see if anything suits you. I have found that the advice on this forum is wise, insightful and should be considered.

@ landon96 -- hope you make it back to this thread.... If you do, try to get together with ride-wv or somebody esle who has flown, best thing for somebody dipping into power kites...