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airsail
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- Weight: 80kg
- Local Beach: Queens Beach North, Queensland, Australia
- Favorite Beaches: Queens North, I don’t travel much
- Style: Foiling
- Gear: Sonic 3 15mtr, Soul 10 mtr, BRM Clouds 8, 6.2, 4.8, 3.7
Lift, Naish and Levitaz foils
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Postby airsail » Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:30 pm
Tacking, big foil kite is so much easier, you need the lift from the kite for the foot switch. If you not into tacking you can easily get away with much smaller kites.
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rnelias
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Cumbuco, CE
Barra da Tijuca, RJ
Praia da Bica, RJ
- Style: freeride
- Gear: Boxer 9m for foiling
Rebel SLS 8m or Crave HL 9m for boosting on twintip
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Postby rnelias » Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:36 pm
Eugadude wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:01 am
Hi I'm curious what kite size and foil wing size people use in 10-12 knts conditions and what type of foiling are you doing? I got a little bit more into foiling this year cuz I wasn't having much fun on TT in winds below 15knts and got tired of kites bigger than 12m and wanted to get on the water and cruise around with sailboats and just kind of get more days on the water in the summer when winds are light around here. I'm currently using 9m crazyfly infinity and crazyfly foil 1200cm2 I'm able to get going in 9 knts
Kite: Boxer 9m (LEI 1-struct)
Wing: F-One IC6 850cm^2
Stab: F-One IC6 300cm^2
Mast: 95cm aluminum
Flap (Brazilian brand) Pocket Board 3’11” 15,8L
I'm 1,85m and 75kg and about one and half year on hydrofoil practicing and can do gybes and foot switches but no tacks yet
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Trent hink
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- Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2019 4:59 am
- Kiting since: 1998
- Weight: 83 kg.
- Local Beach: Nokomis beach, Turtle beach, Venice inlet, lido key
- Style: Creepy old man
- Gear: Peak4, LF, solo, Moses 633 hydrofoil, couple of surfboards, a twintip I made in 2008.
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Postby Trent hink » Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:56 pm
You never mentioned your weight and what size front wing you are using...
I'm 84 kg, on a Moses 633; I'm ok with a 9 meter liquid force solo, in ten knots, but my 6 meter flysurfer peak4 has about the same low-end and is easier to keep in the air if the wind drops out
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grigorib
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- Kiting since: 2009
- Local Beach: OBX; Clinton Lake, IL; Lake Michigan; Hood River; La Ventana; Ocean Park, PR; SPI; Tawas, MI
- Gear: Kites: Slingshot Rally 5/7/9/11m, Turbine 9/13m, SST 4/5m, UFO 3/5/7/9m, Flysurfer Speed4 10m standard, Flysurfer 2cool 6m, Peter Lynn Venom II ARC 16m
Boards: Spleene RIP 37, Flysurfer Radical6 138, Flysurfer Flydoor5 XL, Slingshot/Moses/RDB 70/90/101cm masts with 1200/860/800/730/600 kitefoil or 2200/1700/1400 wingfoil wings and 310/230/425 stabilizers, Naish MicroChip 80cm, 36" Woody, Slingshot Dwarfcraft Micro 100, MBS Comp 95x
For sale: Slingshot Turbine 9/13m, 20” Guardian bar, 1700 sq.cm wing/fuselage/stabilizer fitting Moses mast
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Postby grigorib » Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:45 pm
210 lbs, 90cm pocketboard
9m UFO and 1200 cm² wing - 11 knots and less
7m UFO with 730 cm² freeride or 1200 cm² wings - below whitecaps
5m UFO and 600 cm² freerace or 730 cm² wings - whitecaps through 30 knots
4m SST or 3m UFO - 30+ knots
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Eugadude
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Postby Eugadude » Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:12 pm
Trent hink wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:56 pm
You never mentioned your weight and what size front wing you are using...
83 kg 1200 wing
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xfact
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Postby xfact » Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:22 pm
8-18 kn, 6m Flysurfer peak on an Armstrong HS1250. 90 kgs. Above 18-20 knots, either HS1050 or Peak 4m. Both on 20 m lines.
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20knotFLOW
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- Kiting since: 2008
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- Local Beach: VanCity
- Favorite Beaches: Wherever the wind is blowing
- Style: FreeStyle
- Gear: Slingshot Rally GTV1, Raptor, Ghost, Slingshot Slingwing V2, 5'4 & 6'4
Slingshot SB, TT mako, CrazyFly Raptor TT, Custom Carbon DW Board 8'X21"X6"
CF FOIL 1200, Naish 2140
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Postby 20knotFLOW » Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:24 pm
Thought I would chime as I am on the same 1200cm Crazy Fly front wing (CFly Chill deck). Im 210pounds and in 8-12knots I can run a 10M SST Slingshot kite. Its a little underpowered in the lulls which is making me work my kite more.. Im now fully comfortable downlooping and currently working on toe side transitions, downwinding etc. I have to keep working on my transitions but Im super happy with my setup as Im gaining momentum/confidence with this gear. Cheers!
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tkaraszewski
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- Kiting since: 2015
- Local Beach: Hood River/Caribbean
- Style: Hydrofoil
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Postby tkaraszewski » Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:37 pm
10-12 knots is 19m Ozone R1, Levitaz R5 for me. ~85kg.
If it's a solid 12 knots, then move down to 15m.
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Jyoder
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Postby Jyoder » Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:56 pm
Depends on the mood, temperature, and the location.
Some days it’s racefoil and powered foilkite, and some days it’s surf foil and one-strut or strutless LEI. It’s nice to have options to fit the occasion.
I can ride my 11m Boxer LEI and Moses 633 in as light wind as I can with my 18m Diablo and race foil (7-8 knots) at 75kg.
Modern one-strut LEI 11-12m kites are surprisingly good at low winds that used to only be possible with foilkites.
Learning to wingfoil has taught me a lot about how to pump even a tiny foil and pocket board up out of the water over multiple kite loops and power strokes, extending my low end significantly.
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glfmkg
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- Posts: 85
- Joined: Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:16 pm
- Kiting since: 2019
- Weight: 220
- Local Beach: White Rock, BC, Canada
- Favorite Beaches: White Rock, BC
Squamish, BC
Nitinaht Lake, BC, Vancouver Island
Crescent Beach, BC
Boundary Bay, BC
Tsawwassen, BC
Nanaimo, BC
- Style: Freestyle, Big Air, Foiling
- Gear: Kites:
Airush Ultra 7m, 9m, 12m, 14m
Airush Wave 7m
Airush Lift 9m
Naish Pivot 12m
OR Rise A-Series 12m
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North Atmos 141
Ocean Rodeo Mako 165
Cabrinha Spectrum 144
Moses T65 Foling Board with a 633W front wing
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Postby glfmkg » Wed Oct 12, 2022 11:34 pm
Eugadude wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:01 am
Hi I'm curious what kite size and foil wing size people use in 10-12 knts conditions and what type of foiling are you doing? I got a little bit more into foiling this year cuz I wasn't having much fun on TT in winds below 15knts and got tired of kites bigger than 12m and wanted to get on the water and cruise around with sailboats and just kind of get more days on the water in the summer when winds are light around here. I'm currently using 9m crazyfly infinity and crazyfly foil 1200cm2 I'm able to get going in 9 knts
This is a very interesting question and I think skill level would play a massive role in kite/wing selection. I'm a new a foiling (about 32 sessions) - At 220lb I was always going out with my 12m Airrush Ultra with 10-12 knots on my 633 Moses and a T65 Moses Board. Now, actually last week, I was able to kite in 12 knots using a 9m Airrush Ultra. I think is because I can now generate a lot of power and I'm able to get on foil very quickly with the 633. What I do with it... well, I still don't know, the goal for me is to jump, so I'm thinking that eventually I will be taking the 12m kite to generate more boost (that is why I got into foiling in the first place, as at my weight not a lot fun at 12 knots in a twintip). For now, after mastering gybes, I'm working on foot changes.
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