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The North Sky haven't writing a review recently - Right where do i start i will tell you a bit about what i have used in the past - I have currently owned a nobile 555 135x40, nobile skim, a crazyfly proline 132 x 40 and now riding the sky - I weigh around 107kgs and currently using a 10m rebel and soon to be a 14 vegas.- I got this board the beginning of October and being the first one in the Uk couresty of northkites.co.uk getting they hands on one for us, it gave me a chance to test it and give my opinion to you guys so here it goes.- So what i can say about the board that ive used so far is that compared to the other two boards- Before i got the board i was abit worried about getting the board due to the size,and was looking to get the cesar, but whilst using the crazyfly everytime i came down from a jump the board would slide away from me- this was due to the size i was using but whilst i was on the nobile i wasn't keen on it due to the size. So in the end i took the risk of the sky- When i got on the board it didn't feel too big at all to ride, like it didn't feel like i was on a 136x41 which suited me brilliantly- I also noticed the hard flex, one of the hardest boards ive riden coming from the nobile and crazyfly. It did feel wierd at times to deal with chop and how to deal with the ride but within an hour i soon got use to the ride and it felt like i had been on it for months. The board just flies upwind and theres just an insane amount of pop in it. What i did notice whilst i was riding the board was the lack of splash back of the board, i was a bit scepitcal about the flex tips on the board how they meant to prevent splash back. But when i got on the board i could acturally go along with a dry face now and see what im wanting to do! One thing i didn't notice about the board is how much power it can hold down and how much power it can take out of the kite if you want it to- the low end is also to a high standard but if your one of these riders that wants to get out in a sparrows fart then i would suggest getting a freestyle to go with it - it will get you going in about 12 knots but any less you would need something else- The board doesn't always give you a locked in feel, so you do still have the feel of a skatey feel to it aswell but it all depends on how you want to ride it -Everytime i go out on the board i always find something new about it on how you can ride it. The design and quality of the board is to as high standard as per usual what you get from North, the base of the board has a 'greenday american idiot' feel to it with the green stripes. The pink edges stand out like a swore thumb so there no chance of losing it when you come off. And in my honest opinion i think its the best designed board that north have brought out this year, its not too plain, its not too busy, its Sky! By : GORILLA

Like most we buy our stuff second hand and this is what i did with this kite, i previously gave up kite flying about 2-3 years back and when i was kite flying then i use to use a frenzy 03 7.3 When they first came out so i knew about power and lift ect , but it came, the time when you miss kite flying so much, you have to go out and buy one. so when it came to purchase a kite i didn't know what i wanted but i knew i wanted to get on the water eventurally like most. and i didn't really want to go back to owning a frenzy as there are so many models out nowadays, and they are fairly expensive and you can't use them for water, done to the fact of it being a foil and i didn't really have the money for a flysurfer. So with some investergation i found a kite called 'Arcs' , 3 years ago ive never heard of them, so with being told that they can be used on both land and water i thought this would be a perfect kite for me. people told me and i already knew that the problem with LEIs are that they can break if crashed hard, and since i hadn't really kite flew for a few years, i didn't really want to risk it, and also ive been told the leis aren't brilliant in gusts but people say neither are frenzys. so i had a choice of either a flysurfer(which i didn't have the money for) or an LEI (which i may break) or a frenzy (which again are rather expensive even for the older versions and can't be used on the water) or this 'ARC' type kite. so after alot of investagation into the kite purchasing i found that arcs are very duriable, strong and easy to fly. Now the question is what type of arc do i get theres the F-arcs, guerillas 1 and 2, and venoms... the f arcs are the older ones (i think) and i didn't want something ttoo old tahts been raged about ect , the venom which is the newer out of the arcs which you can't find a cheap one dispate the venom 2 out now, your still looking around £400 for a 10m so that seems a bit too steep being a student and all. SO it was a Guerilla or nothing. the differnece between the guerilla 1 to the 2 is that the 2 moves quicker through the air appartly don't quote me on this as i haven't had the honour to fly a guerilla 1, so i decided to go for a version 2 but what size. ?? i looked on the flexi forums for arcs for sale and it was either a 13m or 15m, so i decided to go for a 13m becasue at the time i didn't have enough for the 15m. When i agreed to buy the 13m guerilla 2 the seller decided to come to my local town of harrogate to sell me it, and he came all the way from manchester!! so when he turned up he got it out and showed me the best way to set up. The winds were howling at the time so i was very nervours, so he un-wined the lines from the bar first, then got the kite out at first i thought it was massive and i ain't seen anything like it, i wasn't sure how it worked though , he showed me that the 'arcs' have two zips in the middle of the kite,one as an inflate and one as a deflate, so before flying the kite you use the inflate zip to pre inflate the kite to get it in the air! With the wind being so strong that day it took a matter of seconds to inflate the kite so once he was all hooked in on the bar, he pulled on two lines which were the furthest away from us, and this created the kite to lift and get in the air as soon as the kite was in the air he got dragged straight down this field, and straight away as he got back on his feet he pulled the safety lesh, and the bar, just flew up the line and the kite went straight down to the ground and told me you can't fly it today. but i knew straight away i wanted this kite !! so after showing me how everything works i bought it. Three months later, and i feel i have progessed so much with my kiteboarding, i haven't made it onto the water yet but im now doing grabs, deadmen and kite loops on the land. I feel if you want to progress fast then a arc is the kite for you, yes people say you need two people to set it up and everything but i feel i have creaked it and i can do it on my own now, but its like anything practise make perfect. The kite has so much de power, and the wind ranges on this kite is unbelievable, people say you need at least 10mph winds to get it in the air but ive had it in the air in around 6mph , the problem with the kite is that 'Yes you have to wait for the kite to inflate and if there is now wind then you have no chance, the kite does have vents in it (im not sure what they are there for ) they do allow wind in because when i inflate my guerilla i only tend to inflate it about 50% and fly it a couple of minutes and let it inflate its self. But overall i am very happy with the kite, its fast (even faster now i have it on a 60cm bar) , the bag is perfect for the kite and you don't have to put the spars away from the kite all the time as it has an extension on it so you can't put the kite away with the spars in. But yeah like i said i am very happy with it , im so happy i named my forum name from it and i even now own a 18m guerilla 2 (haven't written a reveiw on that yet , will do ) , but anyone out there loking to go de power i would recommend 'Arcs' any day of the week. By : GORILLA

right then i ordered my harness from powerkite shop on a Monday so it would have enough time for the birthday on the thursday i phoned them up on wednesday afternoon before 1ish and they said none in stock after been told they had them in stock so after a frantic 30mins i found out that Airboss sells them, so i loked up the price on the net and they have this 'world cup fever' thing going on so there is discount on the harness,. the harness usually costs £95 without bar so including bar about £120 but i got mine for £95 including bar so a good deal by airboss and i got it next day . just thought i would point this out. if anyones thinkning of buying in the next few weeks. The choices of harness in which i was going to purchase other to this one were either a Dakine Fusion or a Dakine Fabu waist but my problem is ive never tried a waist harness and i heard they have a tenderse to ride up and crush ur ribs if u ain't got the right size, and i don't have a really kite shop near by who provides a choice of harnesses that i can try on. also i must admit the fusion harness with the camo design does look very nice especially for a Gorilla from the Jungle 🙂 but the problem is if i don't fancy the understraps on then they dangle there and also the dakine harness does look like a bit of a nappy. ;-( the sesssion harness.- The reason i wanted one of these harnesses was because i read up that the harness is able to take the leg straps off so it becomes a waist harness. this is just what i wanted as my current harness a PL (Peter Lynn) seat one i don't use the understraps for two reasons being my legs are too large and as all males who use a seat harness it can tend to rip your woooowhh apart so its fairly painful. So the Session harness i have the option to use it as either a seat harness or waist harness. This is the only harness on the market to be able to have this option of the removeable leg straps, and they have this patent pending, so it probarly be the only one on the market forever now. The designers have tried perhaps a bit too hard to make better than any other, and this is shown in the product,it is a very technically harness it took me awhile to figure it out how to use it and i had to be shown how the leg straps come on and off, but once its been shown its very simple (just me being a daft bugger) Its a strong well constructed harness, i am overally impressed with it and i am glad i didn't get either of the dakine harnesses. i feel this harness will last me years by the quality of the product.i would recommend the harness to anyone the only down fall is that it is on the costly side but what do u want a harness that will cost you £50 and last you a year or two or do you want a harness to last you years?ooo another down side is that the instructional manual ain't the best as its like A6 paper and the diagrams are very small so not the best, but im sure you or someone around you at the beach can show you if your a daft bugger like me. By : GORILLA