hellnferno
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Registered: 17-5-2013
Location: Potlatch, Idaho
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first upwind ride!!
Yesterday it was blowing a little strong 14 mph wind with gust up to 20 mph. I thought I am ready for stronger wind experience so I took out my 3 m hq
beamer. It goes pretty well, only got thrown off once with gusty wind. An hour later I feels that I should work on some of the skills.. Decide to
attempt to ride my kite upwind instead of walking back to start of field.. Well.. I did it!! Proud of myself for learning a useful skill after kiting
on and off for a year! For those who are learning, don't be afraid to cross the line a little but not way too far. :-D
Kite: 3m HQ Beamer IV
Ride: core 95 MBS
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hiaguy
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Location: Whitby, ON
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Congratulations! It'll all be more fun now that you can get back to where you started :wee:
Go ahead... tell me to "go fly a kite!" Please!
Howard - used to be KC67
Fly: A quiver of Lynx' and Cores (did someone say "Pansh"?), a couple o' Arcs, and a Rev to remind me about control
Ride: PL XR+
Where: 43.857899, -78.941661 and 38.970951, -74.828922
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markite
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Location: Cambridge, ON, Canada
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Congratulations. It's baby steps at first but now it'll be leaps and bounds for you in learning. High Five!
Mark Groshens NAPKA KC 13
WindSpeed kites & design - Canada
Peter Lynn Arcs: Charger2 22.5 +18 + 15 + 6.5, Charger I 6, Scorpion 16 + 10, Phantom II 12 + 9, Orig Phantom 9 + 6, Synergy 10 + 8, F 1200, S 840
Ocean Rodeo: Flite 17 + 12, Rise 13 + 10 + 7, Razor 9 + 6
Foils: PL Leopards and Lynx, Airea Raptors, some PL Reactor IIs + IIIs, Libre Spirits, Cross Kite Sonics, Ozone Flow
Peter Lynn Kite Cat for cruising the lakes
buggies: PL XR+, Cameleon Pagona, custom bigfoot, PL Bigfoot, custom ice buggy
Boards: 2 custom directionals, O.R Surf series 6-3 and 5-11, Mako Duke, Mako Skinny, Mako 140 Wide, Mako 150 Wide, Mako King, Brunotti
lots of old school skis, snowboard
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3shot
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Congrats!!
Agree with Mark. Progression is eminent now.
5 minutes of Mark knowledge, and he sent me almost 3 miles up wind LOL
Cross Kites Sonic 3, 5m
Ozone Flow 2, 3, 4, 5m
Ace II 4, 5m
NAPKA-US24
4, 5, 6m ATB landsurfer. Custom longboard deck
Buggy: VTT Black Widow v2.0
 
http://hint.fm/wind/
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abkayak
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good deal  ...kite more work less
US-31...Cquad set/ 2.5 Bullet/ 2.6 Viper/ 2.9m Reactor/ 2- 3.5m Bullet/ 3.6 Beamer/ 4m Buster/ 4m Toxic/ 4m Ikon dp/ 4.5 Bullet/ 4.9m Blade/ 5.6
Twister/ 6.6m Blade/ 7.5 Apex/ 9m Fuel/ Phantom I 9,12,15,18/ 2 Flexibugs/ PL Big Foot/ landboards
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hellnferno
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Location: Potlatch, Idaho
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I wish we have more great windy day like this here in hilly area. I'm thinking of moving up to a bigger kite for a lighter wind. Maybe a depower kite
for gusty wind that we usually have here. From what I read.. Access/Frenzy/Montana sound great for this area with light and gusty wind.
Kite: 3m HQ Beamer IV
Ride: core 95 MBS
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acampbell
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Location: Las Cruces, NM. Sometimes
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Yeah that's great. It's generally considered that when you can roll back in the the same sport where you started, then you have really "gotten it". I
remember that epiphany moment for me. Congrats!!!! Now about that dead mans turn... :-)
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propylene22
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Whats a dead man's turn? lol
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RedSky
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