For mostly 5-10 knots, sometimes 10-15 knots and 80-83 kg, it's best to
start with a 7' directional board or 6' bidirectional board and a large
Wipika kite that give you at least 8 m2 PROJECTED SURFACE (The Wipika
FreeAir VARC 8.9 or 11.5 - not the old Free Air). When you get better
you can add the Wipika Airblast 16.4 to your quiver. Voila, allez
flysurf!

P.S. Foils are much better for light wind; however, for some reasons,
foils vendor "cannot" make foils bigger than 10 m2 and for your weight
and light wind condition you cannot buy bigger kites if you go the foil
route. Concept Air have been promising this 12 m2 New Wave for a while
and you may want to check with them to see whether they have it. If
this is the case, you can go for the New Wave 9.3 and then 12 later.

P.P.S. Even the largest Arc is only 8.4 m2 projected surface... Peter
Lynn might have forgotten how to make bigger kites...

Hung.

Buzz Robert A Bezzina wrote:
>
> Hi Hung, Kenny and all the others on the ksurfschool e-group ...
>
> Have been following all the mails going back & forth with great
> pleasure for quite a while now and would like to thank all you guys
> for sharing the info ...
>
> I'm working & living here on Koh Samui (a small tropical island in
> south Thailand) right on the beach, which gets pretty fickle wind (say
> mostly 5-10 knots, very rarely 10-15) but really miss my wave-sailing
> days back home on the North coast of NSW, Aussie (15-30kts).
>
> I've gotta get back on the water somehow and hoping kite-sailing is
> the way to go. Despite reading heaps of good advice from all of you,
> I'm still confused as to what I should get as my first couple of kites
> to learn on (I know I'll probably trash 'em).
>
> Was thinking of getting a smaller Naish (AR3.5 or AR5) to learn on
> initially, then using a bigger one (13.0m or larger) after I get the
> hang of it .... then again, I read a good e-mail about a Concept New
> Wave so don't know what to go for ... I know an instruction video will
> be a must as there is no-one here at all who knows anything about
> kite-sailing ...
>
> I'm 80-83kg's and think I'm pretty fit for a forty year old ! haha...
>
> Willing to give it a go though ... any advice would be muchly
> appreciated !
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Buzz.
>
>
>
> >From: Hung Vu
> >Reply-To: ksurfschool@egroups.com
> >To: kitesurf@egroups.com, ksurfschool@egroups.com,
> cankitesurf@egroups.com
> >Subject: [ksurfschool] "Official" URL to the Kitesurfing School web
> site
> >Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:09:29 -0500
> >
> >It has been brought to my attention that some of the "pseudo" links
> to
> >the Kitesurfing School web site are not working anymore (due to the
> >forward/reverse DNS mapping if you know what that means). I you have
> >any link to the Kitesurfing School web site, please change it to the
> >"official" URL:
> >
> > http://www.netcom.ca/~hungvu/kitesurfing.htm
> >or
> > http://www.attcanada.ca/~hungvu/kitesurfing.htm
> >
> >Should I starting paying more money to put the site to a more
> >"permanent" location or what ???
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Hung.
>
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