I was at Playa Del Carmen a couple weeks ago and I had to walk 10 to 15 minutes from my hotel to get to a spot where there was enough beach space to launch my...
I have been using and playing with a number of bow (or almost bow) and SLE kites in the past year. What I have found is that SLE is better in term of stability...
I believe that kite designers can improve on their designs in one other way. That being the drag produced by turbulence around the leading edge bladder. They...
Don, Bruno and some others have made some experiment about "double skin" inflatable in the past. It's never gotten to the market stage successfully.. Hung. ...
Faction kites produced a kite with a second skin on the underside near the leading edge. I never flew one but I understand that it was not a tremendous...
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 ...
20m line length should be the standard in the future Flat LEI allows us to fully depower such that we can use slightly larger kite We can drastically change...
I am in the process of updating http://kitesurfingschool.org during the holiday season (probably take me a whole month to complete) During the process, I found...
Kiteboarders Wanted - Kiteboard Belize with Cabrinha Pro - Chris "Hollywood" Butzen Kiteboarders Wanted - Are you ready for winter? Or are you ready for a trip...
Kiteboarders Wanted - Are you ready for winter? Or are you ready for a trip of a lifetime to Belize with Cabrinha pro - Chris "Hollywood" Butzen? There are...
Happy New Year to one and all from the FKA. We're enjoying a particularly good wind season so far in Southern Florida and hope your getting plenty of quality...
Hope this is as good as the Pyro Dry Suit. Hung. ... Subject: World's First Surfing Drysuit! Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:00:03 -0800 From: Ocean Rodeo...
For the Kitesurfing Search Engine, I have included more than 500 kitesurfing related sites including all the leading manufacturers, information and discussion...
Hi, I'm new at kitesurfing and for the past 2 months I've been trying to catch a good day to fly my "big" kite for the first time, but every time I go to the...
Luis, Have you had quality pro lessons yet? It costs but there can be a great deal more to traction kiting than being proficient in flying a trainer kite. Not...
I have updated the home page of http://kitesurfingschool.org and the Link page http://kitesurfingschool.org/kitesurfinglinks.htm and the School page...
I went out in a blizzard today with the Waroo 5m. Made a jump, crashed and when I looked for the kite, it was straight down wind and started climbing up across...
I asked myself this question last night and decide to figure it out using the Kitesurfing Search Engines (including more than 500 kitesurfing sites) at...
The new kite energy page is at http://kitesurfingschool.org/kiteenergy.htm Please let me know of any other kite energy products or info would you like to add...
Generally, I am a very bad "green guy" (I consume more electricity/gas/beer than average), but I do practice some of of the green kiting stuff (e.g. walk or...
I've just used a 2006 Vegas for the first time and last week it fell to the water. While down, it powered up, inflated edge down, and back edge up. I...
Hi, The '06 Vegas is a 5 line kite. In light wind, when the kite is on the water leading edge down, you pull on the 5th line, but not so much that it...
Hi - I spent about 20 mins trying to haul in the on the centerline but the wind kept the kite powered. I was using my board in the water to add resistance to...
Hi, I always have problem with the valve. I usually use aquaseal (polyurethane glue) Do u know any better solution or other idea by using heat. I am looking...
Alex Tien Do
Alextiendo@...
Mar 23, 2007 2:12 pm
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I normally glue it in too. The trick is to clean and then let it dry before using the glue. Someone else may have a better way. Hung. ... [Non-text portions...
Hi Guys, Please check out www.kitesurfing-vietnam.com High wind season Oct to April bring smallest kite u have no wetsuit other than that kite year round ... ...
Alex Tien Do
Alextiendo@...
Mar 30, 2007 1:05 pm
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I think it is already on there at http://www.kitesurfingschool.org/schools.htm#Asia%20&%20Pacific%20Rim How is the wind in July, Aug? What not another one in...
July and August are the worst months. But we do get South wind 10 to 15 days out of the month before the storm comes. During high season we get thermal wind ...
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