I think we may be ignoring the elephant in the room. The real danger that will end kitesurfing globally is gaining traction. The numbers are rising, what is this insidious malevolent danger ? Its the strapped in foilboarders using unstable/hard to control foil kites ,the recent pics are showing the...
What a stupid post. Just one comment I will make: Who is dropping kites on others ? Toby, I am actually genuinely sorry if this post offended you. I have watched your dvd, and I must say I am quite strickly hooked on your style. I think what you perform is an inspiration to all of us, and even your...
I agree with your points about not paying attention, and jumping. It's the same here, once a camera shows up everyone seems like be attracted to it like flies. Problem is jump for height (to post height to social media) has people sending it off big perfectly formed open faces. If a ramp off a wave ...
Hooked tricks are easy bait to sell and Dimitri/Nick/Kevin have happily been selling that advanced, yet realistic and spectacular riding style. I don't think it's that advanced, mostly just holding an edge and having enough hang time to do things while dandling. I don’t mean mere jumping. Folks add...
Hooked tricks are easy bait to sell and Dimitri/Nick/Kevin have happily been selling that advanced, yet realistic and spectacular riding style. I don't think it's that advanced, mostly just holding an edge and having enough hang time to do things while dandling. Simply put - riding a sport motorbik...
Sorry for the rant but companies need to stop marketing their new kites as dedicted height machines. This is causing unsafe riding to come to fashion and style (in the air), but none on the landing. See, large lofty jumps with massive hang time causes riders to drift downwind in the air uncontrolabl...
It would be nice if wind stations showed standard deviation of speed and direction. Also a wind meter that had sensors at 10 20 30 40 and 50 meters on light wind days. To do this, you would require having a sensor up at those heights. We setup wind sensors which are up 15-20 meters do we can get an...
I have been collecting high resolution (minutely) wind data in a specific location near where I live. I specifically collect the wind speed, wind gusts and direction based on a sensor reading which is made every 1-2 minutes. What questions would you want to know based on this data? It seems like mos...
Winging also doesn't always solve access issues too. It does if you can'y launch a kite, but my local spot has straight onshore winds and a very terrible beach break since it goes from ankle deep water to overhead (causing massive plunging waves). On a twin tip I just power through the break and com...