KiteFanatic

Would someone make this a sticky, every month this comes up. even though I have it on my hard drive, I forget about it, so I do enjoy seeing it resurface once in a while, he managed to walk away,

when my handles broke, because of the distance, Matt asked for a picture of the broken handles, and a week later I had a new pair in the mail from USA distributor for Flexi, great service. Like others have said, contact Matt At Flexi, but this might get you somewhere as well?, I know they fix kites for flexi, for any US or Canadian customers, they might be able send you a new pair ? Flexifoil USA Service Centre c/o Prokitesurf 623 N. Chaparral St. Corpus Christi , TX 78401 USA TEL: +(01) 361-883-1473

Sorry if this sounds stupid for asking, are you saying add 2 inches to the crossover lines. As I am having the same problem, luffs, folds in, wont reverse luanch, I think I have a bridal stretch, it wants to go right all time, I switched my lines around, and it still favors going right. and when I go to land it by pulling the landing line it will go right,and wont come straight down.

there is a kite shop in Mitchell Ontario, that sells Flexi products http://www.tailspinkites.com/, I have the 6.3 Crossfire, its done a good job for jumping I weigh about 180lbs as well, its a little cheaper then the blades, the handles suck, so bought flexi handles and lines for it, so by the time you buy handles and lines for the Crossfire, its perty close to being the same price as blades, I am thinking of selling my Crossfire, I live in Stratford Ontario, about 1.5 hrs away from you, we could meet half way sometime and I will let you try my crossfire to see if its what your looking for.

Maybe i should have stayed in bed today, but the wind was calling, the wind was about 25- 28 kph, started out great, got some good jumps in, then I tried to get my snow board on, and thats when it went down hill from there, the kite wouldnt reverse launch, and its very hard to walk backwards with a snowboard on, then some how the kite twisted itself up perty good, took about 2 hours to untangle it, once I got that sorted out, I went back out, it still wasnt flying right, always going to left, very unstable, always luffing, thats when I saw all the snow inside my kite, (enough to make a miniture snowman) the kite was very heavy, and no thanks to mesh on the leading edge, I was unable to get the snow out, it just balled up, very frustrating:mad: , so now the kite is in my atic for the nite to melt the snow. If this kite was designed for snowboarding, why is it so hard to get snow out, and yes I did try vent outs on the trailing edge, it got very little out. I have had the kite for about 3 weeks now, been out about 8 times with it, most of the time its been a good experience, some days not so good, but this is my first depower kite, so I still have to get used to it, and I have only been flying static with it, have had much luck with the snow board yet. Come spring I am getting a buggy or landboard, So I hoping for a better experience then.

aw yes good times in deed, its not very often that we get winds like this in these parts, but I extend a inventation for the 30 mph winds to come back any time.

http://media.putfile.com/Brighton-Kite-Jumping-Extreme-2 try this link

:D lets just say the safety gear and kite killers went to good use to today, the winds where crazy here in Canada today, 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. the beamer 3.6 was maybe a little over powered, but it was so much fun, I havent had that much fun in a couple months, i was scuding from one end of soccer feild to other end in seconds(wet grass), got some pertty good size jumps with it as well, but of course, the landings where a little hard, knee pads saved my knees a couple of times, had one bad landing, and face planted on one side, had to lay there for a bit a catch my breath, thank good I was wearing a helmet, did a couple of belly slides before I put the Kite killers to use, all in all I had a blast, but my body is feeling it now, could have been a lot worse, but I felt safe doing it. I am still have a big grin on my face just thinking about this afternoon. I LOVE THIS ACTIVITY:D

Well today while I was testing a 9.5 Sabre, Dave from the kiteshop also brought out a 5 metre HQ montana depowerable, as he has it as a demo from HQ for 2 weeks. The wind wasnt the greatest, maybe 10 kph to 15 kph, but for its size I could feel the power penitential launching upside down wasnt the greatest launching did ok, just pulled the lines and up it went it had 4 different settings on the middle lines to adjust power according to how windy it was, found this to be inconvenient, compared to the sabre quality between the Montana and Sabre, obliviously the Sabre hands down, the Montana just looked cheaper in design the safety release on the Montana was ok, but after some wear & tear, I wouldnt want to be air born with it, it may slide down by it self, just from flying it, it slide half way down on me I am not used to depower, but after flying the Sabre (by the way, was an awsome experience) I found the Montana a little less stable and more twitchy to keep it going. I found I liked flying better on a depowerable bar, I guess that includes I liked the depowerable kite as well, I favor the Sabre much much more, I only wish I had $1000.00 bucks Canadian, he has the Sabres on sale $400.00 off on all sizes untill November 15 2005. I wish it was more windy to really see what the Sabre could do for me.

The local kite shop has 9.5 sabre as a demo for $1000.00 Canadian, about $480.00 Pounds I haven't heard a lot about the sabre's, does any one have any info/advice for me, is this a good price as its seems to be, his listed price is $1400.00 Cad. I am going to try it out later this week. does this kite have good lift ? is it floaty ? does it have a good wind range ? will this kite be good for kite surfing (relaunchable) ? I will be using it for static jumping, but later hope to get a buggy and as a plus he is going to list my 6.3 crossfire for sale on his site, he gets quite a few requests for used kites, so hopely someone will buy it. thanks for any help/advice you can offer

what the heck, you must have changed your host site while I was typing my last post much better site for hosting videos

videos look good, but you might want to find a better hosting site, have to wait 15 seconds before downloading, only can download 1 at a time, can only download so many bytes per hour, unless sign up and pay not a very user friendly site, took me a while to figure out how to download, I thought you where spaming that web site at first. but once again looked like you where having a good time

um those links did not work for me, some rapid share web site poped up, it says it a premium zone (privileged area) in the top left corner I click on some links and its wants me to sign in, and if I want to downlaod a video I have to pay to subscribe??? this looks a little like spam to me, but maybe I am wrong.

his jumps look sooooooooooooo floaty it looks so fun, i cant wait to try snow kiting this year, the kite from air evolution is about $1400 Canadian for a 15 metre and thats on sale, but if you get that much float from it, it would be worth the money, I wounder what it would be like to static fly that kite, I would think you would need a very big field, once you got lifted you would be up there for a while. or it might just put you in the hospital?

If you though was big air check this video out its called Please, don't do that IV !!!! http://www.semnozkitesurfing.com/data_htm/pages_galerie/page_galerie_videos.htm# this looks awsome, I think the kite used is the hybrid core by air evolution http://www.airevolution-snowkite.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=34&osCsid=6221ff2670478d2846cde3680b3c95bd