Peter Lynn Guerilla 2 13M

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