Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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Nathan B
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Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

Post by Nathan B »

Going to try and make the best out of the last of the conditions and light winds.
Come try out some new kites and new innovation Airush Lithium and Access. Look for Eric Oppen or myself and we will set ya up with a kite to try out. We will be on the west shore of lake Calhoun today and saturday.

Access
http://airush.com/2011/products/access/
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php ... tif_t=like

Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHy3UFmS7PQ
Barry P
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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I'll be there around Noon. Looking forward to trying these.
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I am going to try and get out there around ten....Hopefully my wind dance will pay off... Nathan has a bunch of fun kites to try....SHould be a nice day! Been loving those new access kites.
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Nathan B
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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Today was light but very nice out, caught some sucker gust for a two hours. Mike was showing up as I left hopefully he got some. Snow on Calhoun is great, nice smooth layer of bonded fresh. about 2-4 inches.

yay Eric you are killing it on those Access ! looks like a great day tomorrow Ill be there at 10:00 also.

Sounds great Perry we will have a kite ready to go.

I have a 15 Lithium LW , 13 Access and 12 Lithium that are great for light wind!
once the Lithium goes up in size to the 13 and 15 it is designed kite for Light Wind.
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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be there at 11 now :mrgreen:

looks really nice outside! see ya out there.
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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Good idea. Light winds look great for teaching one of my daughters. I think we'll come out too.
Barry P
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Pretty light winds. The 10M Access on 12M lines was really surprising. It delivered like a much larger kite but was every bit as quick as you would expect from a 10. I'd be fun to try it in some real wind.
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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A big thanks to Nathan for the letting us demo the Airush kites. I was very impressed with the Lithium's performance, smooth & stable, great low end, easy to jump... it definitely surpassed my expectations, a new kite on my wish list. What a beautiful day on Calhoun. Thanks again Nathan for the opportunity to demo the kites here in the Twin Cities.
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Thanks guys, it is nice to hear some input from other riders! Really nice day out there, blue bird with nice light winds and did not feel 30, felt warmer out.
Thanks everyone for coming out to try some new kites and chill on the lake, it was great to see everyone!
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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Here's a short clip. Sorry I know I missed more than half of you. Just shot whoever was in front of the city landscape, when I could.

Fun day, great sun and sky.

Thanks Nathan for giving us a reason to cluster. Sounds like a lot of people enjoyed the rides.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoYle1etHU[/youtube]
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Re: Airush demos today! 25th & 26th lake Calhoun

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Thanks Tighe for the nice video..loved to see the kids on the board..
and thanks Nate for setting up the demo and get together..
it was a super fun event and it was a real joy to see so many kites and soo many smiling faces
on the lake on such a bluebird day..
wind could have been a tad steadier/stronger but at least it gave us few fun runs on a great surface.. :D

looking forward to the summer season!
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Post by tjd »

Nathan, will you have any airush boards to demo when the ice melts? I'm really interested in the sector boards.
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Re: Airush demos today!

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Hi Trevor

Yep we will have Airush boards to demo all season long and be doing lots of demos, feel free to reach me for a demo anytime though.

I will see what I can do about getting a Sector for demo this season, maybe we could get one here for some races we are having this season!

http://www.airush.com/blog/design-corne ... -sector-v2

http://www.airush.com/2011/products/boards.php
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