Sick day, huge air off lips with every kite. Gonna sell that 9m chaos, it's just crazy twitchy and way too intense for me. I was literally scared flying it at times.
You know it's a good day....
-
lovethepirk
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 583
- Joined: Sun May 10, 2015 7:04 am
- Style: Almost air tacking on hydrofoil...
- Gear: Delta Race Hydrofoil, 15m SS Turbine, 12m Switchblade, 9m Switchblade
- Brand Affiliation: None
- Location: Naples, FL
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 10 times
You know it's a good day....
when you fly your entire quiver overpowered!
Sick day, huge air off lips with every kite. Gonna sell that 9m chaos, it's just crazy twitchy and way too intense for me. I was literally scared flying it at times.
Sick day, huge air off lips with every kite. Gonna sell that 9m chaos, it's just crazy twitchy and way too intense for me. I was literally scared flying it at times.
-
plummet
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 6819
- Joined: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:25 pm
- Local Beach: EE
- Favorite Beaches: NZ
- Style: Terrain riding
- Gear: Old wornout ozone.
Plummet hydrofoil and mutant - Brand Affiliation: None
- Has thanked: 11 times
- Been thanked: 224 times
Re: You know it's a good day....
.... You are holding a bar in your hands.
Last edited by plummet on Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
-
Toby
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 50510
- Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2001 1:00 am
- Kiting since: 2000
- Weight: 95 kg
- Local Beach: Cumbuco, Brazil
Barra do Cauipe, Brazil - Favorite Beaches: same
- Style: Airstyle
- Gear: Rebel 2015 18
- Brand Affiliation: None.
- Location: World (KF Admin)
- Has thanked: 842 times
- Been thanked: 2400 times
- Contact:
-
plummet
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 6819
- Joined: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:25 pm
- Local Beach: EE
- Favorite Beaches: NZ
- Style: Terrain riding
- Gear: Old wornout ozone.
Plummet hydrofoil and mutant - Brand Affiliation: None
- Has thanked: 11 times
- Been thanked: 224 times
Re: You know it's a good day....
I always consider it a oh for awesome day when I can partake in more than one of my sports/disciplines. IE kitesurf, foil, buggy, landboard, mountain bike - downhill, all mountain, trial, street and longboard skating.
Havent done em all in one day before. That's a goal to accomplish!
Havent done em all in one day before. That's a goal to accomplish!
-
styleito
- Medium Poster
- Posts: 100
- Joined: Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:24 am
- Style: ito
- Gear: Too much and not enough
- Brand Affiliation: None
- Has thanked: 23 times
- Been thanked: 2 times
Re: You know it's a good day....
9M, twitchy.lovethepirk wrote:Gonna sell that 9m chaos, it's just crazy twitchy and way too intense for me.
You should have a go on the 5.5M Chaos that I fly on a somewhat regular basis.
-
nismo98
- Medium Poster
- Posts: 59
- Joined: Sat Dec 24, 2016 4:51 pm
- Local Beach: Mitchells Bay
- Style: boost, wake, surf
- Gear: CWB PRIZM Boots on a LF BOB 137 wakeboard.
LF Index Boots on a Nobile 666 142 kiteboard
5m LF envy
8m Best TS
10.5 Best Kahoona
12m OR Razor
14m OR Prodigy - Brand Affiliation: None
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
Re: You know it's a good day....
I have had one of those days. It was a workout just to pump 4 different kites.
The best days are when you have flat water action and overhead waves all in one day.
The best days are when you have flat water action and overhead waves all in one day.
-
knotwindy
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 2388
- Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:49 am
- Local Beach: baja, gorge
- Style: erratic to none
- Gear: yes, I use gear
- Brand Affiliation: None
- Has thanked: 275 times
- Been thanked: 319 times
Re: You know it's a good day....
.....when you have been riding with your friends for a couple of hours starting upwind and outside just a bit in the waves that leads down to a flat area where you all try throwing crazy tricks, some of which you occasionally land, all pushing each other and just when you think "I'm getting tired" everyone else goes in and you have the waves to yourself for the sunset session as they smooth out and pick up. That is a good day.
-
jeromeL
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 1114
- Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:22 pm
- Local Beach: Longisland NY
- Style: freestyle
- Gear: Fone Bandit 2014 12m^2, 2015 9, 2015 7, 2015 14
Best GP 2015 9m
Star Sirius V2 12m
Nobile Fity/50 138cm
Naish Apex bindings.
Zeeko Green and White + Shinn El Stubbo - Brand Affiliation: None
- Location: Longisland, NY, USA
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 2 times
- Contact:
Re: You know it's a good day....
You know it's going to be a good day when your driving to the beach and as you spot the water you get knots and butterfly in your belly and prey that you will finish session injury free.
You know you had a good session when you wished you brought that unopened 7m you left in your garage.
Stick with it a bit longer you will get used to twitchy kite after a while. Keep hands in middle of bar, it's not really an issue. After a while you get some muscle memory.
My beginner kite were fone bandit (pretty fast) and definitely looped it many times by mistake as I was learning to jump and going into unwanted rotation... But after a while you make less flying error and when you do it's easy to send it back to 12. Now if I go in rotation by mistake I am able to keep twitch kite overhead.
In overpowered condition a small flying error will get amplified quite a lot and can become quite scary. If you redirect kite forward by mistake (a fraction of a second will do) as you go up your body can go horizontal pretty quickly, good way to get used to powered kiteloop!
You know you had a good session when you wished you brought that unopened 7m you left in your garage.
It's true that on C kite a flying error is not as forgiving as on bow kite.lovethepirk wrote:when you fly your entire quiver overpowered!
Sick day, huge air off lips with every kite. Gonna sell that 9m chaos, it's just crazy twitchy and way too intense for me. I was literally scared flying it at times.
Stick with it a bit longer you will get used to twitchy kite after a while. Keep hands in middle of bar, it's not really an issue. After a while you get some muscle memory.
My beginner kite were fone bandit (pretty fast) and definitely looped it many times by mistake as I was learning to jump and going into unwanted rotation... But after a while you make less flying error and when you do it's easy to send it back to 12. Now if I go in rotation by mistake I am able to keep twitch kite overhead.
In overpowered condition a small flying error will get amplified quite a lot and can become quite scary. If you redirect kite forward by mistake (a fraction of a second will do) as you go up your body can go horizontal pretty quickly, good way to get used to powered kiteloop!
-
JakeFarley
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 920
- Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:54 pm
- Kiting since: 2001
- Weight: 92kg
- Local Beach: Florida Left Coast, USA
- Favorite Beaches: Any that are not crowded.
- Style: Dinosaur style (Velociraptor)
- Gear: Kites: Flysurfer Speed5 21m, Soul 12m, Cabrinha 16m Xbow, 11m Xbow, Best 14m HP Nemesis, 9m Yarga C Hybrid
Boards: Crazyfly 135 x 46 Pro, Cabrinha Spoiler 140, 6' custom surfboard, 122 x 46 custom twintip
Wing foil: Naish Hover 110l, Slingwing 6.4m, F-One CWC Strike 8m, Slingshot Hover Glide Fwing (Infinity 99), Slingshot Phantasm 926 and E 990 - Brand Affiliation: None
- Location: Pearl City
- Has thanked: 187 times
- Been thanked: 144 times
Re: You know it's a good day....
when the water is warm, the air is warm (no wetsuit), no other kiters at your favorite spot and you have a nice, steady 15 knot breeze... 
-
dylan*
- Very Frequent Poster
- Posts: 1047
- Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:33 pm
- Gear:
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 17 times
Re: You know it's a good day....
it's florida, most people here haven't even flown anything smaller than a 9mstyleito wrote:9M, twitchy.lovethepirk wrote:Gonna sell that 9m chaos, it's just crazy twitchy and way too intense for me.
You should have a go on the 5.5M Chaos that I fly on a somewhat regular basis.
i tried a friends 5m one day and could barely even fly it, was so fast!