this is SUPER dangerous. You board is submarining and if the kite continued to drag you the board will pull you UNDER and you will drown DO NOT ATTACH YOUR LEASH TO THE FOOTSTRAP or anyone other than the tip of a board that is soooo dangerous. And the board WILL hit you (not go underwater as you ass...

for what its worth I have a nice 4" groove on the back of a helmet where a fin would have hit me. I quickly learned to body drag after that close call. That was a fixed surfboard type leash a long time ago. I carry a 2' webbed bungee safety leash on the back of my harness for those times when the ki...

well, thats because I'm such an awesome kiter :roll: Seriously, the g1 is weak on the lowend. Well known fact. Maybe the F's are worse but the g does not hold up to a similar LEI or FS of comparable size. On that note, does PL measure in projected or flat sizes? There must be a lot more going on bec...

well, my take is that the garc suffers from poor lowend. The only way around this that I know of is to keep that kite moving as fast as possible. That requires a fast board. Fast boards are generally efficient boards. My observations of fins on kiteboards is that at in anything other than locked in ...

I'm very interested in this because I'm of the (unusual) opinion that more fin = slower board = less bottom end. Thats my theory but I'm probably wrong so I'm keen to see your results

its not on the market yet, still a few weeks to go

try eric herstens site for more details but his site is a bit of a mess with many steps jumbled up. As for learning, the best thing is either get someone to show you first hand (as I did) or just jump in and teach yourself. Once you know the steps it is so easy to construct a board. The real hard pa...

Dereck, this is pretty cool. Thank yo uso much for explaining flex and how you get it. I've just started building boards and found a few very useful things in your video that I will start doing. For those mac users having problems with wmv, It was my understanding that there's an update for one of t...

I had the best swivel fail on me at the weekend. equipment: gorilla 13M, best swivel bar, best lines, pro limit seat. Under medium load (foot dragged on hardpack beach) I pulled the primary release to land the kite and it failed. I confirmed that the pin actually came out so I took the center line i...

Vega: I should have seen that I may have a unique construction process. Here is how I work Step 1> I laminate 2x 1/4" sheets of divinycell together with a sheet of snowboard glass (glass & carbon weave) on my convex & rocker table That makes for a very stiff blank core that has my shape, with the ve...