I don't think blowout valves actually help. The shock wave of a hard crash breaks the internal stuff before it reaches the valves. At least that was my experience with the magnetic valves on the genesis...

How that looks from inside: 80CB6485-6B08-41E0-94A9-F07B6FEE3F3D.png 59049AC9-6408-474F-B307-842DFDC663E3.jpeg I bought a couple second hand damaged foils (sonic and ozone race) with a load of similar internal damage. It took a while to fix but I spread the work over a few weeks, fixing one or two ...

kitexpert wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:51 am

Listen up, and I mean really listen, folks.

It wasn't like you had much useful to say before you discovered ChatGPT...

azoele wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 21, 2023 6:40 pm

Go Fluid M-t (on sale if you catch it) and Fluid-h 38 as a stab, and you will be set. If not available, the new Fluid S and fluid-h 38.

What's the difference between the older M-t and the new Fluid S?

On a fluid L-S but feeling curious about a higher ar wing...

The French forum lesfoilz has a few hardcore foil kite + surfboard fanatics. The popular choices mentioned there seem to be (i) the Concept Air Wave kite - a low aspect chunky foil kite with massive windrange, and (ii) the new v3 Concept air Firefly - a hybrid single skin (much closer in style to th...

jumptheshark wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:58 pm

Kauper look nice but full on hydrofoil LEI is clouds. They’ve improved a couple times since I had em and they were leagues ahead of the pack at the time.

But since they don't sell them outside of the US it is worth mentioning the slingshot UFO which is also low aspect strutless...

Sarda wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:32 am

Excellent. Lol!

It gets old pretty quick.

When a flysurfer kite flys badly it can be difficult to get good online advice because people always assume the problem is with the owner who doesn't do the mixer test properly or isnot piloting the kite right. I think you might be better off calling flysurfer to get help with strange behaviour whic...

I've owned the 4m for a short while and can compare with single skins. In the kind of winds where you use these sizes then most kites drift well enough, this is true. I found the kite pretty nice to use with not too much bar pressure. But the big difference for me was that the hawk was not as tolera...