slowboat wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:53 pm

Question for Peak 4 for users. Favorite self landing method? Thanks

Definitely edge of the window, reach above the Y and grab the lower line (opposite of a LEI self land) and yank in 2m or so as seen here.

Even in light winds I find it hard to backstall land as you can see here

What size was the kite? Peak 4 5m on 22m lines. but it would be nicer if the kid was wearing a helmet Why though? I actually have a water sports helmet for him but chose not to use it in this scenario. We are in shallow water with 500m of clear downwind water, there are no hard obstacles for his he...

Yeah pretty much. I think you could probably hold ground on the Peak 4 at his weight so once he's at that point I'll switch him over to the LF Solo for better upwind and boosting. Keeping the Solo in the air in 8 knots take a fair bit of kite flying skill knowing when to loop and such while keeping ...

If you really want to go that low wind with an LEI you should get the biggest BRM Cloud. Also understand that if you drop the kite you swim. I would recommend going with a Peak 4 in 8m or 11m. Chances of dropping the kite are very low, but same swim if you do. EDIT: forgot to mention the 12m Gin Mar...

First time teaching with the Peak 4 and it delivered. I like to teach kids in sub 10 knots for safety and general comfort and tube kites aren't very responsive in these wind ranges. The Peak 4 is super easy to fly, even as low as 6 knots and provides a lot of low end grunt to yank you out of the wat...

I did my first lesson with the Peak 4 and have some more insights on relaunch to share. If you keep rear line tension when it hits the water you can reverse launch it okay. Trouble is if it gets too much water caught inside the leading edge trough then it just starts to pivot instead of reverse laun...

jkrug wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 15, 2019 7:32 pm

curious as to why riding a soft top surfboard would have any effect on weeds and fins?

They still suffer from weeds, it's just there is no fin box to put in FCS or Future fins.

I have 2 pairs of quad, 1 futures 1 FCS for sale:
http://kiteboardbc.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14220

They are very nice fins. I don't use them anymore because I switched to riding soft top surfboards.

They have a minimum recommended wind of 12 knots even for the giant 7m wing: That 7m wing looks like a real handful:

No shim this time, I had tried a shim with the large stab in the past but didn't find it to make that much difference.