Darren
What size did you get?

It would be interesting if you can compare its power to another
known kite. I fly mostly pl venoms in the winter and a comparison to
them would be a good benchmark.

Stan

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