Board for Snowkiting

[Lolage]

I snowboard so im wondering if i can use my snowboard for snowkiting or do i have to get a specially designed board?

 

Cheers.

[sonicseal]

You will probably struggle with a directional board and true twin tips are very rare.

The £200 Nobile snowkite board is a cracking board for the job. Works a treat.

[metal_snapper1599968645]

I've had no probs using my directional board....just centre the stance as best you can.....and set both your bindings up to +15 so your stance is 'Duck' style....Never rode a Twin Tip.....so cant comment.....but no complaints with using a directional...

[mkratty]

I've had no probs using my directional board....just centre the stance as best you can.....and set both your bindings up to +15 so your stance is 'Duck' style....Never rode a Twin Tip.....so cant comment.....but no complaints with using a directional...

 

ive had no problems doing the same 15deg both biding as central to the board as you can !!!!!!!!!

[kahis]

I use a Salomon AMP (05) feeeride board and it works just fine. It is definitely not a true twintip, but reasonably symmetric nonetheless. The difference is notable in low winds, but once properly powered it hardly matters; upwind is sligthly better in one direction and so is stability, but I've done 30 mph in both directions without any problems.

 

EDIT: I'm also using 15 degrees with a duck stance. Works fine, never tried anything else.

[KermitStu]

any idea what the air evolution board is like

[kahis]

I also have a Nobile snowboard; it is slightly smoother and truly symmetric, but I am not 100% happy with the build quality. The Salomon board is definitely better made.

[sonicseal]

You will probably struggle with a directional board and true twin tips are very rare.

Sorry, by directional, I meant one that has an obvious tail and nose

[Kat]

No probs using a regular snowboard..as has been said just go for a duck stance as centred as possible.

 

IF you feel the need for a true twin look out for the freestyle/park/rail sections on manufacturers websites. Ride, Jeenyus and Stepchild do twins if I remember correctly though do look at the measurement details in the write up just to be sure.

 

I havent ridden a Nobile but I believe it has a large sidecut to help with the kite flyers heel bias ( I may be wrong though, as I said, I havent ridden one.) This is cool if all you are going to do is snowkite but I went for a Rome Detail so I could use it to snowboard when the wind drops.

[Lolage]

Cool well i go every year to france snowboarding so it'd be ideal.

[KermitStu]

has any one tryed the air evolution board i would realy like to know what its like as im planning to buy a board and it seems like the obveiouse choice

[g0nz01599968659]

You could do a lot worse than having a look at http://www.heli-boards.com .... They do a nice 148 Freestylee twin tip which would be very nice with a kite.

 

They are out of the same factory as a rather well known manufacturer but at a third the cost. Its a simple no frills board which does exactly what it says on the tin:D The build quality on them has been good enough to survive LOTS of dryslope ramp & rail abuse with no obvious ill effects. Imported by the same company who do the Pegas kites:)

 

Dan

[daZZa-S]

has any one tryed the air evolution board i would realy like to know what its like as im planning to buy a board and it seems like the obveiouse choice

 

 

Why don't you ask the people that your a team rider with or is this a new way of pimping lol

 

 

On the same note...Those air evo boards do look nice so I be intrested as well.

 

what do you have to look for when you buy a snowboard for snow kiteing?? I'm looking to go next year and will be a regular thing

[KermitStu]

lol no its not a new way of pimping

 

i ride for the uk landboarding team hence no one has used the snowboard

 

pluse i dont speak french so speaking to the kitesnowboarding team guys may be hard

[daZZa-S]

lol no its not a new way of pimping

 

i ride for the uk landboarding team hence no one has used the snowboard

 

pluse i dont speak french so speaking to the kitesnowboarding team guys may be hard

 

 

Worth contacting them mate. Their English is quite good as I have asked them questions via email and they were pretty helpful.

 

I'm in the same boat ... wanting to go snowkiteing this year and may make snowboarding a regular thing. So need the same info as yourself

[KermitStu]

yer same lol

 

well im getting some info out of them at the moment

 

i will email the actual french people as well

 

EDIT i will post what has been replied up here

[srod]

this board would be just about perfect I reckon... a bargain too

 

http://community.flexifoil.com/showthread.php?t=98323

[KermitStu]

very nice price but its abit long for me pluse i want an air evo one:D

[radar]

very nice price but its abit long for me pluse i want an air evo one:D

 

here's a challenge for you mate. see if you can go the whole week without posting the words Air Evo or similar. we've got the message now that you'r suffering from a bad case of cognitive dissonance and are trying hard to convice yourself, as much as anyone that you have a nice kite

 

please, stop stinking up all the threads with your subtle style of repping. i'd like to hear what you actually have to say about a subject for once, your own opinion, rather than another comment about air evo or whatever awkwardly shoe-horned in there

[KermitStu]

very nice price but its abit long for me pluse i want an air evo one:D

 

here's a challenge for you mate. see if you can go the whole week without posting the words Air Evo or similar. we've got the message now that you'r suffering from a bad case of cognitive dissonance and are trying hard to convice yourself, as much as anyone that you have a nice kite

 

please, stop stinking up all the threads with your subtle style of repping. i'd like to hear what you actually have to say about a subject for once, your own opinion, rather than another comment about air evo or whatever awkwardly shoe-horned in there

 

 

sorry mate

but i think im alloud to ask if the air evo boards are good or not thats not pimping thats asking a question

 

and the heli boards are very good but if im riding air evo stuff i mase well get the air evo board esspecially if the board is desighned for kiting do you not think?

 

plus that board srod was offreing would be to long for me so i couldnt have had it

 

oh and i mentioned air evo twise in 5 post i dont think that classes as every post

 

have a good day

[KermitStu]

@ dazza-s Here is What air evo said in reply to my email

Hi Stuart,

Nice to meet you !

-Concerning bindings: no problem it accepts everything ... however for your

own safety we don't recommand back entry binding like "flow system" for

example. Indeed to put binding off you have to be on the front of the board

... and if you have an emergency it will be more difficult to escape!!

-First of all we are snowboarders, then, when we climb mountains with kite

we enjoy packing kite and snowboarding down ! It was very essential for us

to get the best board either for snowkiting than snowboarding. Don't be

afraid it works well ! We recommand this board for people under 80kg. Remind

that this board is the most titled snowkite board in all the story of

snowkite ... 5 times World Champion !!

You're welcome for snowkiting in France!

Good ride,

Damien

 

i hope this dosn't offend or annoy anyone. i did say i would post the reaply as other people would also liek to know what they said

[daZZa-S]

@ dazza-s Here is What air evo said in reply to my email

Hi Stuart,

Nice to meet you !

-Concerning bindings: no problem it accepts everything ... however for your

own safety we don't recommand back entry binding like "flow system" for

example. Indeed to put binding off you have to be on the front of the board

... and if you have an emergency it will be more difficult to escape!!

-First of all we are snowboarders, then, when we climb mountains with kite

we enjoy packing kite and snowboarding down ! It was very essential for us

to get the best board either for snowkiting than snowboarding. Don't be

afraid it works well ! We recommand this board for people under 80kg. Remind

that this board is the most titled snowkite board in all the story of

snowkite ... 5 times World Champion !!

You're welcome for snowkiting in France!

Good ride,

Damien

 

i hope this dosn't offend or annoy anyone. i did say i would post the reaply as other people would also liek to know what they said

 

Cheers Stu. Shame i'm 5kg over the limit but I don't surpose that matters.

 

What are "back entry" bindings and if they are no good does anyone know the best ones for snow kiteing.

 

How many people have bought from Heliboards by the way? What's the service like? Nice basic no thrills boards those... I want the girlly graphic one

[KermitStu]

hi man i doubt 5kg will mater

back entry are ones that you dont undo the straps, your foot slides in the back and then the rear part raises to keep your foot in

[radar]

 

here's a challenge for you mate. see if you can go the whole week without posting the words Air Evo or similar. we've got the message now that you'r suffering from a bad case of cognitive dissonance and are trying hard to convice yourself, as much as anyone that you have a nice kite

 

please, stop stinking up all the threads with your subtle style of repping. i'd like to hear what you actually have to say about a subject for once, your own opinion, rather than another comment about air evo or whatever awkwardly shoe-horned in there

 

 

sorry mate

but i think im alloud to ask if the air evo boards are good or not thats not pimping thats asking a question

 

and the heli boards are very good but if im riding air evo stuff i mase well get the air evo board esspecially if the board is desighned for kiting do you not think?

 

plus that board srod was offreing would be to long for me so i couldnt have had it

 

oh and i mentioned air evo twise in 5 post i dont think that classes as every post

 

have a good day

 

you can ask what you like. it doesnt detract from the fact that your opinion means less and less the more you mention the A and E words

 

and did you really think that you would get an answer from someone on here that has actually ridden the board? as someone correctly suggested - mail the manufs. and use google language tools if thats a problem

 

please dont act surprised that someone has asked you to stop pimping to blatantly, you've been at it for long enough now - it's just getting tiresome

 

do have a good day yourself:)

[KermitStu]

im not going to have an arrgument with you on the public forum if you have something to say pm me

 

@ EVERYONE Im sorry if people belive im pimping the snowboard i dont personally feel as if i am. i wanted to find out what peoples veiw on the board was as it seemed like the obveiouse choice board for me to get

 

once again im sorry

 

i would be intrested if any one else felt as if i was pimping Please tlel me by pm as i would not like to change the direction of this thread