360? No.....it's called a dead man's turn! It's been done in buggy for years but on a hydrofoil it's something special. A lot more skills needed to do it while standing on an underwater plane.
https://youtu.be/ZJC-fen0h8w
socommk23 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:35 am360? No.....it's called a dead man's turn! It's been done in buggy for years but on a hydrofoil it's something special. A lot more skills needed to do it while standing on an underwater plane.
https://youtu.be/ZJC-fen0h8w
Craig sparks is a very talented freestyle buggiers and had the right conditions and place to pull this manouver off.joriws wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:01 amThis video shows the trick with 1st gen Sonic 15m probably with 21m std lines from dual perspective. I wonder when multiple deadman's turns are done with HF in a row..
https://vimeo.com/124712637
I was believing that regarding this phase, if kite is very high, you do not need to travel the line length , but only its horizontal projection , hence shorten this "paragliding " phase of the kite where it slows you down. Can you see what I mean ? For exemple on a extreme case ( just for illustration) : assuming the kite is fully at the zenith, you just need to do a 180 degree with the foil on its location, no nee to travel at all ...Horst Sergio wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:48 amThis means even if you now shortcut and pull up the kite as high as possible towards zenit, you still have to travel around about the line length to change side with the kite while keeping an effective lee speed about 4 knts higher than windspeed.