has anyone tried this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufIcV1wvz7k

.they look interesting

kinda like a npw with a rigid LE

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Originally posted by art_lessing kinda like a npw with a rigid LE

That's what I thought when I saw them. There was a discussion on these things on the snowkiting.com forum a few weeks ago. It looks like they are pretty popular in some areas, but I don't see much appeal for a serious powerkiter.

There was this guy Ross who used to own a kite store on lake sunapee and post here and he sold them. I used to talk to him a lot but he has since moved out of the region. He said they were real easy to use and set up on ice because they lay flat until you pick the bar up and get wind in the sail. The range on them seemed good but I was always concerend with broken leading edges (like the C-quad) and I thought their color schemes were ugly so I stuck with my foils. I believe they are made around the Quebec area which is why they are more popular up there. My feeling is that if they were superior to modern foils they would be more popular. Maybe a cool thing to have if you have the money but I don't so...

Another nice thing about them, according to Ross, was that they are flown on pretty short lines which can give one an advantage if you fly in tight spaces.

yes they are made in Quebec and widely used here.

I had a small one before for high winds, but didnot like

short lines (10m or something around)

takes 10 minutes to learn, quite easy and safe, even for kids, affordable.

low end very bad (dont beleive their advertise), no depower, steering the other way around, turns slow

takes winter strong winds to get going

very safe, let the kite go, and it falls down. since it has a carbon poll along the edge. BUT we've seen paraskiflex in the electric wires as well.

Usually when someone learn to fly a real kite they dont go back to paraskiflex, it just lacks performance.

BUT like any religion, some kiters only swear by them, and even use them on the water

another tip

If you want to initiate your wife/girlfriend to snowkite and make it easy so you dont get a divorce, that might be a solution

many kiters here initiate their kids (8 to 14 years old) to snowkite on that.