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Still all on for today, Neil (Blue Van man) was off to buy loads of burgers, suasages etc, so I hope your hungry... Weather looks OK, heavy frost this morning, but bright sun all day, wind light but increasing, NW. Dont fancy surfing today thou. Hope you all had a great Xmas Best wishes Alan

Fly-in, Feast-in and Drink-in @ Shoebury East Beach, Essex. Bring your beer, brandy, mince pies and left-overs from Christmas for a B-B-Q hosted by Mobius Flix and Essex Extreme Windsports Club on 27th December 2004 All day. Loads of space for Buggying, ATB, Trick kiting and Surfing. Shoebury East Beach nr Southend on Sea

Only found out about the meet from a friend on sat, so popped over for a couple of hours. It was great to meet up with old friends and make new friends from north of the county and suffolk. Well organised fly-in and soooooo many people. I hope some of you will pop over to the Feast-In (Surf, Buggy and Trick Fly-in too) at Shoebury East Beach on the 27th December 04. I'll post a meet on here later this week with more details. Best wishes & happy, no, MERRY Christmas Alan

You could always email Tim Benson via his website for dealers in NZ. http://wwwbensonkites.com Alan

Although I am a bensonite, the nirvana will do all the new style wrap tricks very gracefully, but the gemini can be easily modified to do the same, if your prepared to start cutting it about a little. Then again the N already done, but you have input very large arm movments. Gem's are light handed (from the wrist) full on freestyle as they where designed to be, after testing the abw/benson C1, its going to be its equal and maybe a little more, still giving it that nice light feeling even in a stiff breeze. The best advice... Try before you buy... we all have our opinions:eek:

I spent some time on the Stranger last weekend and although I could axle, flic flac, and 540 it felt very limited even at a few mph of wind, so out came the Gemini UL and I was happerly tricking out to my hearts content. I think you can only get so much out of the older designs, mind you, I have managed to trick a flexifoil stacker 6 other day...

The newer kites are designed to do the latest tricks, even the Gemini has gone through some changes. Psycho was good for its time and is still good for high winds, but has a limited number of tricks it can do. Most of the up to date tricks (jacobs ladder, wap-a-doo and so on) now require kites with active bridles, weights, yo-yo stoppers, sliders and particular sail designs to make them roll up several times perform backspins and then roll out again to maybe to a fade. Im still a big fan of the gemini but now with some mods... Hope this helps

I was in High Wycombe yesterday!!! Just working thou

Great, Thanks Blackcarrot... I can get on with that Thanks again Alan

I have lost the top spreader of a Innerspace, has anyone got the measurments so i can cut another one

I don’t own an Area 51, but I did a report on www.mobiusflix.co.uk site a couple of years back. It’s a GREAT kite and a serious contender to the Minigem. A friend of mine later brought the said kite and we never have adjusted the bridle as yet, but we did play with some weight on the trailing edge of the spine (5 - 15g). This will help with fades, although its not very stable, but does "fruit roll ups" with ease (sometimes 2 or 3 rotations with one pump) but could do with some yo-yo stoppers. It backspins and tornado's like nothing else, slow or fast. If you like the lighter feel of the A51 then you'll love the Gemini, very forgiving but does give you bad habits as it tricks so easily. I can’t do everything with it but Andy Wardley certainly shows you it can. I am leaning towards the new bridle after buying a Gemini UL last year and will be converting one of my STD Gemini’s soon. Do you mean flick flacs or the flap jack, the gem & A51 flick flac easily if you give them plenty of slack and give a slight jar on the lines between accelerated pulls to dump air pressure at the end of each movement! The flap jack, now that’s another story better answered by another poster.

Being a Geminite, I was suprised with the arm movement, rather than the hand flicks I am used too... At the Blackheath Fly-in back in march, Carl had several set-ups, the first one I hated:( , precision was the "Dogs Nuptuals" but I felt like a windmill... I finally tried one that had been set for all out freestyle, bloody fantastic:D .... smaller hand movements and does really cool tricks that I couldnt do on the Gem. Carl put it through it paces no probs, its what you get used too. Could be a bridle adjustment or two or three or..... Carl won't bite ya head off if you emaill him for some tips Best wishes Aaln

Not keen on ripstop bags, as they wear throu' after a couple of yrs of light scuffs & you lose just about every stick you have, then you have the long bags that you fold over & tie, which just strangles the kite, giving it that tie-dyed look. TB's (Benson) bags are good quality material and the drawstring pulls up pretty tight, but drawstrings are a spar looser on rare occasions:( well once for me... Never lost anything form a zip bag (HQ, Prism) too much padding in prism bags, I have never seen kites with more wrinkles!!! as for the fancy printed bits, I find them really dam hard to fly:p Best wishes Alan www.mobiusflix.co.uk