Stan,

http://www.conceptair.com/pageG.php?page=kitesnow&lan=en&snow=smart

Looks very interesting!

Sounds like the ConceptAir guys are head-over-heel with it.

Why did it take them (or other foil manufacturers) this long to
manufacturers kites with features discussed on these groups 3 or 4 years
ago?

Anyway, kudo to ConceptAir for advancing the foil landscape.

No, I haven't tried it yet and would like to have the opportunity to try
it (BTW, I have sold my original sled/foil so I won't be able to compare
the Smart with it ;-)

Chris,

The word sled was "invented" few years back to refer to the C kites.
Sled more or less means "curve". The more curvature, the more stability
the kite has.

Hung.

woodman_k wrote:

>Hung
>I remember you were playing with a concept air kite as a shape
>shifting flat to sled kite.
>Conceptair now makes it. Its called the "smart". Have you tried it?
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>Stan
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>--- In cankitesurf@yahoogroups.com, hungvu2000@... wrote:
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>>We had this battle about sled .vs. flat long time ago.
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>>Sled more or less won due to its inherent stability and
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>the "mysterious"
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>>sled boosting effect. Read
>>http://www.kitesurfingschool.org/kite.htm#Sled_Boosting for the
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>sled
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>>boosting effect.
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>>Even with flat LEI, the kiters' preference is SLE, not flat bow.
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>SLE
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>>has more stability and "sled boosting" effect while offering full
>>depower (actually, it's the full depower that is important and not
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>the
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>>flatness of the kite).
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>>Do we want a flatter flat LEI? flatter than bow? We have foils
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>which
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>>are probably better and more efficient. Back to the future with
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>foil?
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>>I had this wonderfully sled/foil kite that can behave as a foil or
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>sled
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>>up to the desire of the kiter a while ago...
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>>What is next for kites?
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>>P.S., I was posting a message about bridle on the trailing edge of
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>flat
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>>LEI a while ago on these groups and it looks like someone is
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>seriously
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>>working on it. Sounds like our discussions at the various Yahoo
>>kitesurf groups are always first in trend and direction (the same
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>thing
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>>happened with Flat LEI via the original discussion at
>>http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/kitesurf/message/67005 )
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>>Hung
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