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See you there, for team canada

Anyone else?

How many Pilots are in Team Canada Rips

At current 4 ... When we start planning after my return it could drop or go up

Team USA is still at zero.

If you need more information or assistance please contact me. I'm hoping that NAPKA gets involved as well.

You're racing the worlds best from each country, it's totally worth the trip.

Europe Bound!!! Woot.

Let me know if I can help you in any way. I live in Twickenham, England, which is a good 5 hours or so from there but I do make the trip to Brittany twice a summer. I'm happy to loan my buggy or some kites to anybody who needs them, but I can't promise delivery.

I guess if I had ever been in a race, I'd have some thought about how things would stack up. Tough leap to make.

Make the leap, you already have the speed down. Learn to drive around markers is the next step.

Course racing teaches you more technic than going from A to B.

Start thinking ... Beaver

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Originally posted by ripsessionkites Make the leap, you already have the speed down. Learn to drive around markers is the next step. Course racing teaches you more technic than going from A to B. Start thinking ... Beaver

So turning around close the the highway and then back to the car isn't quite the same I guess? I'd love to see a race from above so I could actually see how the course is negotiated and the techniques used to round the markers.

Learning the rules would also help.

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Originally posted by jellis Learning the rules would also help.

Now it REALLY sounds like fun. Years ago I read that thread about the different rules and it made my head spin. I like to argue but I don't want to engage that one.

read the FISLY rules

https://vimeo.com/28999392 (display of a course)

https://vimeo.com/32005836

https://vimeo.com/20037031

https://vimeo.com/2492537 (glider view)

there's more but i can't find them all ... sorrie to busy packing.

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Originally posted by BeamerBob Quote: Originally posted by ripsessionkites Make the leap, you already have the speed down. Learn to drive around markers is the next step. Course racing teaches you more technic than going from A to B. Start thinking ... Beaver So turning around close the the highway and then back to the car isn't quite the same I guess? I'd love to see a race from above so I could actually see how the course is negotiated and the techniques used to round the markers.

I have not raced, but I remember speaking with Adrian Levelle, Graham Steel had been at the top of the tree in the UK Racing circiut for years....an awesome racer, and then Adrian won, quite easilly, I asked him, what he had done differently to be able to make that much difference. He told me,

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"I went out and buggied at EVERY opportunity, and learned to suicide gybe in any wind direction with out even thinking about it"

, and he practised, practised and practiced that until he was arguably the best suicide gyber in the world, and it was that, that made all the difference against Graham Steel.

Tack turns have to be done as comfortably as gybes, knowing how to read the field around you are some of the tips I have been told

Beamer makes your head spin thinking about all the people that are driving cars and had to learn those rules, or did they? LMAO

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Originally posted by jellis Beamer makes your head spin thinking about all the people that are driving cars and had to learn those rules, or did they? LMAO

Exactly! I think most do not know the rules or even know how the roads are supposed to work. Forget assuming they might think of how to be courteous to the other drivers around them. The left lane thing is way worse out here on the west coast than back east. In the Southeast, if someone is cruising in the left lane and you flash your lights, its as if they thought "Oh, I shouldn't be in this lane and should get over". Out west, about 30%of the drivers seem to have been told that's where you get as soon as you can and stay there till you have to exit. I've gotten in front of people here and started bumping down my cruise control in a very gradual decel. I've gone from just over 70 to under 55 with people very content to stay in the left lane no matter what. Wonder what "slower traffic keep right" means in their little world?