i know this might sound like something from the left field but please hear me out...i had very VERY severe tendonitis, tennis elbow, arthritis the works, all from playing sports pretty much all my life, up until the age of 39 is when i found out all my suffering was due to eating factory farm chees...
I guess since everyone is going to use long lines, they should start with long lines. Sure, why not. Long lines are not any more difficult than short lines. In fact many schools prefer teaching on incredibly slow kites because they're afraid their students are going to make a mistake turning the ki...
wtf does world sailing have to do with registering boats, you are reading too hard into this mate I would think that this would be one of those things where if you were riding in the ocean, near-shore, no one would really care. But I could see you getting pulled over if you were cruising in the intr...
Does anybody with real hands-on experience has anything with sense in it to contribute? I used to kick F-One's butt for their ultra-safe, velcro release - all while owning F-one kites. Problem is - in over 3 seasons I haven't activated the release even once. Yeah, definitely agree -- not sure who a...
Honestly you should save the popcorn for the kooks trying to launch unhooked. Much more entertaining to watch the havoc they cause than the way 99.9% of other kiters do it more safely.
Not really. I'm either sheeted in or sheeted out, anything in between gets trimmed with the rope.
Having super linear sheetable power requires design with lots of pulleys that destroy the handling of the kite, anyway.