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Last season two of my passions intersected, flying drones and flying kites. I love power kites and i've been flying them for over 10 years now, however drones are a recent passion in the last 3 years that i've picked up and started to enjoy. I used to call them multi-rotors, but the mainstream public's declaration of calling them drones has now washed off on me. During our Kingston trip I finally had the opportunity to really intersect the two passions, and this year i'm hoping to take things
So I've had a small win overnight, bidding on a Flexifoil Blade MK1 3.3M in the colours I like for this series. Here's some shots below of the kite from the auction, it'll be on its way to @koma's place shortly and added to the stash
If anyone knows what colour options the 2.6M came in let me know, it's the last one missing in the series and so far I can only find that there was an aqua/black colour scheme
There's been some amazing prices on second hand gear in Australia, and indeed globally the past year. Last August I managed to pickup a pristine condition Peter Lynn nGen here in Australia that had been flown less than 6 times since its original purchase. So this has continued to me nearly finishing my complete set of Flexifoil Blade MK1's, and the Flexifoil Blade 4.9 in every edition from MK1 to MK5
So continuing this nostalgic trend, a few weeks back a Blade MK1 7.2M appeared on a loc
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I've been putting a new section together for Extreme Kites which I personally think is going to be another incredible resource over time, it'll be announced on the XK News Blog shortly. I would have released it earlier but after getting it to about 90% ready for launch I did a "minor" update between versions on the website to apply some new patches. Well it totally borked the new section, seeing as documentation is fucking scarce on some things finally today we
Kingston 2016 is on the horizon, we need as much time as possible in the new buggies to get familiar before we head off in hunt of some new records. For @nigel this was his first time on a beach with his new GT-Rapide ++, for @bakersdozen this was the first time he was out in his own buggy! So a couple of firsts for everyone to start, and one for me to finish
We met at Nigel's place a bit after 9am, my GT on the rear rack, Nigel's GT in the back along with Mar
There's been a lot of attention lately towards GT-Race buggies in Australia and I'm unashamedly responsible. Earlier this year @nigel and I discussed to great length and in detail finally making our move towards owning the best production race buggies available. Our decision came about by the competitive blood between us when we're out kiting together, it's nearly a diagnosable medical condition and something that we've enjoyed for over 10 years together.
Back in July our original plan was
My name is Joel Theodore, I live in Australia and I have been kiting since 2003. Throughout my journey I have experienced and enjoyed a variety of kiting disciplines, starting with a kite buggy and learning ground based freestyle then moving to aerial freestyle and buggy jumping. After a few years I moved on to Kiteboarding and enjoyed many seasons on the water, however after a bit of a break i'm back in the buggy and this time chasing my goal of outright speed.
In 2006 I joined Extreme Kites