30 meter kite !!!!!!!

dckiteboards · Since 10 Mar 2007 5 Posts Kook

here is our beast!!!!

http://www.kiteforum.tv/index.php?option=com_videos&task=show&id=1535&Itemid=

Moto · Since 03 Sep 2006 2698 Posts Still a gojo pimp! Moto Mouth

I think I just found my new kite for SI!!

hedquista · Since 13 Apr 2007 72 Posts Salt lake city

i flew a liquid force 26 m i think. it was the slowest beast i have ever tried to fly. not worth they effort but that is pretty sweet. it is one slow kite loop. you might try starting the loop before you unhook.

bleighty · Since 17 Apr 2006 86 Posts St. Petersburg, FL

they edited out the part where the guy on a 17m waroo and skim board flies by totally powered...

dckiteboards · Since 10 Mar 2007 5 Posts Kook

I can land unhooked loops on this thing as well as back roll kiteloops, front loops. transitions... etc

it definitly doesn't turn fast but once you get used to it, its kinda fun. plus what else would you be doing in ten knots....

hummm lets pump the thirty....

SoOR · Since 10 Mar 2007 56 Posts Ashland, OR

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you know you're addicted to kiting when you're willing to go out on days when you need a 30m

J.P. · Since 10 Mar 2005 638 Posts Addicted

magicmaker · Since 29 Oct 2006 895 Posts da Hood Opinionated

KITEADDICT · Since 13 Apr 2006 117 Posts PDX west side Stoked

I gave up mu 20m c for a 15m waroo and I can kite in about the same low end wind. 30m way to much to pump up.

dckiteboards · Since 10 Mar 2007 5 Posts Kook

My BIGGEST KITE for 5 years since I have started kiting and is still my biggest , is a 13 EH freestyle. I use this when everyone else is out on there 17's well my buddy has had this 30 for 4 years now. well recently my work has changed and I cant do 4am to 12noon everyday. So now I am on the ambulance getting ready to start school as a medic this fall and my days off are set so if theres 10 knots well then down goes the beer and out comes the 30....

but pretty soon I will have a nice paycheck and only have to work 2 days and nights out of the week and have off all the rest for kiting.......

KidCorporate · Since 10 Jul 2007 563 Posts Addicted

Dude, you could power that thing with a drinking straw! Make your own wind!

shastadogs2 · Since 28 Mar 2005 336 Posts Obsessed

big kites suck.
jimmi

Sasquatch · Since 09 Mar 2005 2062 Posts PNW Bigfoot

OK, someone took down the Hein post. You know the one which said something like this: Questions for the kooks out there that ride big kites

1: Do you think your ripping it up when your out riding a big kite?

2: Do you download 65m files of people riding big kites?

Here is my reply, which probably will be taken down sometime soon:

Yeah, when I'm out in the ocean or at SI on my 16m C or 19m C, smiling, having a good time, jumping, I often think to myself, "I must look like a 'kook' out here with such a big kite. Then it comes to me, if only I was riding a Hein board, I wouldn't be a 'kook' anymore." Razz

Just a playful jab, but on a more serious note.

Ripping it is a relative term for everyone. Would I prefer to ride a smaller kite most times? HELL YES. They turn faster and are much easier to pump, more fun to ride in the waves etc etc. . . But I make the best of what the conditions offer up here in the NW part of the state. Yeah, if I was in the gorge most of the time or mid to southern Oregon coast I wouldn't want or need the big kites, but I not. I would prefer to ride than get skunked any day, especially if I drove a long distance to kite.

So to answer Hein's deleted post questions: #1 I don't think I'm ripping it up often, but once in awhile. Like the choice day when it was sunny and hot, 15 second intervals between the 10' swell at Tolovana a couple yrs back in Sept. and I just pasted over some migrating gray whales. Only 3 others with big kites were out because everyone else didn't have a big enough kite/power to get over those big waves/swell and point sail.

#2 No on the download of 65m files of big kites. I'd rather watch someone ripping it up while riding a smaller kite and doing all kinds of stuff.

magicmaker · Since 29 Oct 2006 895 Posts da Hood Opinionated

i think my friend described my condition best as windsnobitis. Very Happy

It is true us Gorge folk are pretty spoiled with consistantly strong west wind and that is why we tend to ride the beach with beer in hand on the lighter days.

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6548 Posts Couve / Hood Site Lackey

Here comes my small kite snobbery post...

Lightwind kiting can be fun, but I would much rather see how small a kite I can go then how big. The other day I was planning on my surfboard in such light wind that there was no whitecaps and my kite probably would have fell out of the sky if I stopped moving it. The kite was a 7m. Wink

Big slow kites that take a half hour to turn, who needs it? Sasquach aren't you still on that 16m AeroII I sold you almost 4 years ago?

Especially for waves just go out on a stand-up paddle board and a trainer kite... hey that actually sounds like a good idea. Very Happy

Seriously though I think a 14m SLE with a Glide would work way better than that 30m monster.

J.P. · Since 10 Mar 2005 638 Posts Addicted

Moto · Since 03 Sep 2006 2698 Posts Still a gojo pimp! Moto Mouth

Obviously not very many - the main point of this clip was to show off the beast - its main appeal was the strangeness of the size. If they produced a lot - they wouldn't be strange and no clip would have ever been produced. That and we would see a lot of kooks at SI thinking they were hot shit with their 30M kites. And they would be hot shit after pumping up that thing (the sun would probably be gone by the time they finished).