Its very simple: All we need are thinner tubes (at least half the diameter than now) and less belly in the sail. First advantage: the the kite would have less drag. Second advantage: the kite can eat the gusts better - ... Third advantage: You can use better boards if you have better kites. ... Fou...

Andres_Santacruz wrote:Ok i will take a shorty and a camera with a strong zoom!

QUIT POSTING WITHOUT A PICTURE ; i wanna look at girls, NOT listen to
you run your Mouth --------- and your a hypocrite for telling me the same !!!

Bille

First up get a dude legless dude and create some foils for his legs so they create aparent wind and go super fast.... sorta like the cheeta legs of kite surfing. I'm gonna DO that !! Dump the feet off my prosthetics ; plug the straight into the foil with carbon airfoil. Won't be needing the surfboa...

I think that the equipment we got Now is still good for another 10 to 20Kt IF the human piloting had some fairings, and changed his stance to reduce drag ? The down-hill snow skiers go well over 100mph using just gravity for power. If we did that And went to a more rigid airfoil then who knows how f...

Anyway Cameron don't let that half-wit bother you, there are a Lot of people just like that guy in the world. Bottom line is that there are a LOT More Really Cool guys like --Dimitri-- on earth, to counter the negative people like what the --2 hawt-- represents. I like your pictures and your already...

... Whichever way the record goes now, its going to have to be efficient. Brute force and big balls wont be enough - the big balls will still be needed though. ... Sailrocket say their 65 knots was done in 30 knots of wind. Its definitely a lot more efficient. 65 in 30k of wind is the part that imp...

Ok, looks like I've joined the club finally and cracked my first rib kiteboarding. ... How long till the pain goes away? How long should I avoid kiting? Probably best if Ya just Quit kiting now. (HA )!! If you can take the pain without those damn codeine tabs, you will be a Bunch better off. Pain m...

I bought a Coleman 2 burner stove thinking that would be the shit for kite camping. The thing had some plastic parts, and it leaked and caught fire the first time I used it. SCARY. ... That is why i made this topic ; nearly the same thing happened at Joshua Tree, when a Coleman tried to burn up our...

What kind of stove and cooler do you use for the camping part of a over-niter kite board excursion ? I just spent a week with a bunch of climbers in Joshua-Tree Ca. , and they had coolers that ranged from a few hundred dollars for the bear-proof down to a cheap Colman ; same for the stoves. I just w...

Here is a Rogallo-wing analogy that definitely correlates to our water kites : I got a rag-wing with a left hand turn , so i tighten the left wing a bit on the frame to speed up the left wing. The Left hand turn is now gone at minimum sink,but it will drop the left tip in forward flight into the win...