2016 Nobile Zen Hydrofoil with Infinity 5.1' splitboard
2019 Nobile 2HD with Ronix One boots
2020 Nobile NHP split foil with Ronix Parks boots
MG Supra ......... pulling KiteTrike
Yep, that was tophat and Eric. Eric caught a thermal as he came ashore, he did a little jump over someones lines and that was it .Caught by a
thermal. If you haven't seen the vid, you should. Cool heads prevail.....
Kamikuza ..... I just found this when going thru kite videos on YT.... If you know original post with discussion about lifting I am sure many
people here wants to know what to do in case like this ......
Here is Original Top Hat Classic ......... again ..... for those who did not have chance to see it ....
2016 Nobile Zen Hydrofoil with Infinity 5.1' splitboard
2019 Nobile 2HD with Ronix One boots
2020 Nobile NHP split foil with Ronix Parks boots
MG Supra ......... pulling KiteTrike
over snow and rising slop great advice , over water, if the acceleration would help absolutely.
over land, at serious heights, BALANCE AND FLY IT OUT will be the only thing on your mind!...the acceleration could slam u to the ground at crazy hi
speed and loftings happen SO fast and just like they blow u up they slam u down.
one sec your zooming along and the next you see your board 80feet below and think, wow, thats my board..ha ha
Just to be clear though - in his case where he's demonstrating he's getting lift off the surge of air pushing up the slope right? There's not much
fear of such a lofting on flat ground with stable weather conditions is there?
2016 Nobile Zen Hydrofoil with Infinity 5.1' splitboard
2019 Nobile 2HD with Ronix One boots
2020 Nobile NHP split foil with Ronix Parks boots
MG Supra ......... pulling KiteTrike
god i musta seen that eck vid 100 times or more--my fav part is when they ask hat how he got started " well, one day i picked up a kite and i flew up
in the air" haha how cool would it be to hang out with that guy--you'd get some crazy stories i bet......
LEI's are ridged but would it work with a foil kite ? Would the canopy collapse ?
I made a manlifting video back in 2010. As on previous occasions we discussed with the guy being lifted the best thing to do should the tow line snap.
To keep air flowing over the kite by executing a kiteloop...we said.
It was easy for us to say it but I'm not sure if I would have the balls to do it myself.
The tow line needs to be much weaker than the breaking strain of the flying lines and so as it happens the tow line did snap, while he was 90ft in the
air!
Not so much a kite loop but a complete 360, a mid-air Deadmans Turn! The kite behaved perfectly tho.
Seeing the video you can imagine the tow up as the thermal lift or up-draft and the tow line snapping as the kite coming out of it and being dumped.
13m Flysurfer Psycho. Winds were a clean 15mph on-shore.
Originally posted by wheresthewind?
god i musta seen that eck vid 100 times or more--my fav part is when they ask hat how he got started " well, one day i picked up a kite and i flew up
in the air" haha how cool would it be to hang out with that guy--you'd get some crazy stories i bet......
Ha +1 for the favorite part. Love to watch this classic.
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There was a story a while back about a PKF member caught up in a winter dust devil , lifted way beyond jumping height. I got lucky one time in the
park , I had just put my kite away when a thermal lifted off the field. It was like a giant vacuum was pulling leaves and twigs straight up in a big
swirling motion. That would have messed me up had I been flying at the time.
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Originally posted by snowspider
There was a story a while back about a PKF member caught up in a winter dust devil , lifted way beyond jumping height. I got lucky one time in the
park , I had just put my kite away when a thermal lifted off the field. It was like a giant vacuum was pulling leaves and twigs straight up in a big
swirling motion. That would have messed me up had I been flying at the time.
That was WolfWolfee. Summer time we have lots of dust devils. Some are huge, maybe a class .5 tornado. I know there isn't such thing but a swirling
updraft at least 10 feet across and lifting debris hundreds of feet in the air. That would mess you up. Glad your kite was down snowspider.
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