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Hi everybody! Well, my job is taking me to Daytona Beach from Friday through Thursday of next week... missing the Kitefreeze, but getting me the chance to have some fun. I'll be working a fair bit, but in the spare moments, I'm thinking about trying to set up a kitesurfing lessons, or at the very le...

Mike, Saw you (I was on the 4m orange/black slingshot foil, and way underpowered except in the gusts)- it looked like too much fun! The wind did seem to die pretty badly, and I had to get going. Still, it was fun to watch- kites look magic when the sun is out. Your daughter looked like she was reall...

Tighe, Thanks so much for the response. Things are starting to 'gel' in my mind. -In retrospect, I should have thought about the upwind side of the lake being bad. I sailed on Minnetonka for a while, and am well aware of the "shore effect." We once used it to turn an upwind leg into one ta...

Is that Warrior 16.5 for sale still? How much do you weigh (if that's not too personal a question), and how do you figure it would have done in Saturday's small wind? What's the strongest wind you've flown it in comfortably? Does the Warrior perform like a tube or a true foil? I'm trying to get a co...

Forecast said something like 15 dropping to 10. I'm 200 pounds, the snow is deep, and I own 1 kite: a 4 square meter slingshot foil with a sometimes alarming propensity for tangling. I also am the proud owner of a monkey that won't leave my back. The monkey likes moving under kite power, so off we w...

...because I'm going to gripe anyway... So this weekend is our annual winter camping trip. Myself and three friends usually go up north and spend a couple of nights trying not to freeze, then come back and feel all manly for a few weeks. My pack is big, and I was going to be pulling a sled, so bring...

Thanks, everybody! This is one of the most complete discussions of quiver building that I've found, and it has lots of local relevance, too. Most Florida/Hawaii kiters don't worry about whether their blimp will work on the snow. Rudeboy- your offer of the 16m kite from a previous thread was seriousl...

What size/kind of kites were you using? What was the wind? Approximate weights would help too. Apologies if this is a blatantly newbie question, but I'm trying to get a better feel for kite size/wind velocity/weight ratio. As an engineer, I'm dying for a single metric that covers everything, maybe &...

Hi everybody. Well, I don't know why I'm here. Well, I sort of do. A minor stint as a windsurfer, a longer stint as a sailor, and many years of snowboarding set me up to fail, as it were. The internet is evil sometimes. I don't know where it came from, perhaps living in Santa Cruz and cycling past W...