Ahhhh the harness dilemma! After 17 years of personal riding, and teaching....the kiting the harness dilemma still persists. So many factors involved. Your own personal body shape. Your own personal riding style, aggressive boosting or cruising style, twin tip or hydro foil. Some harnesses built rug...

Interesting....this might be the patent that Ocean Rodeo lost due to some kind of legal "mis-handling". I'm not 100% sure but I do think Richard and Ross were the 1st to invent the break away chicken loop

Kite lines too.much hassle for many people....lines getting snagged on gear left laying around. ..tangled lines...Stuck on rocks, twigs ...bla bla bla ... Just learn to deal with the lines and you'll be fine ...recieve higher rewards ...higher level of stoke ...helps to have solid kite buddies aroun...

Oh yes without a doubt
17m loops like.14
14.5m loops like 12
12m behaves like a 10m
Been doing Aluula since 2020...it's the real deal

Full disclosure...I'm an OR school dealer and I'm done with Dacron...

I like to lube my shaft with coconut oil

Ride Mako, save your knees

at your weight...17m Flite and 12m Flite ...both Aluula. I've used the 17m Aluula in 5-6knots for hydrofoiling....although the Flite is not the ideal hydrofoil kite it can be done if you're experienced. Both kites are great jumping boosting kites. You wont break any woo records but you're still gonn...

I'm a goofy starboard booster too. Last year I started jumping regular, port side, decent size jumps too...here's what helped me: as I am heading into my regular (port tack) jump, I start thinking about spinning 180 and landing toeside with my right foot forward. As soon as I'm in the air with my ri...

what the heck happened to stopper balls?!?!? Someone needs to bring back the stopper ball.

Most of the guys who wear Boardshorts over their wetsuit are too cool to bother to chime in....the un-cool guys are a bunch of keyboard ranters