It seems that these days the forums and reviews are flooded with analysis of the kites depower! IT seems that everyone, especially bow riders, main concern is the depower on the kite. I just can't grasp this concept. I have an 07 Fuel and if you let the bar go the kite depowers enough that it will slowly loft down and touch the groud. HOW MCUH MORE DEPOWER DO YOU WANT? It seems that people these days can't handle a little bit of a tugg when they drop the bar riding suicide. It shoudl be power and windrange which people care about!

hahaha but then the bow riders say, ohhh It's to windy, my kite flys **** when it's depowered so mcuh, it falls out of the sky. Not mentioning any names. Pretty sure the good old 5 line depower does the job better.

who gives a sh!t. why do you care! stop pimping your gear and just go out and kite.

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Originally posted by fob

who gives a sh!t. why do you care! stop pimping your gear and just go out and kite.

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Quote/your an angry man FOB, have you been eating enough fibre?/quote

no im all plugged up and it hurts

I had a C and a bow. I sold them both and brought 1 bow for convenience. Each to there own man.... ur the bitch who is doing all the whinning about what other people are doing.

Someone will start pimping their 2 line in a minute, I think I saw one on ebay for like $50.... fully sick yo... NO depower!

come on guys this is another topic which can only be answered by one statement:
"he/she who has most fun wins"
Looks like theres a conflict of character, peoples character that suit more to a C-kite and peoples character who suit that of a bow kite. I admit im a C kiter and basically i love danger, risk, not scared of death as long as its a story worth talking about. Bow kiters seem to have something really important to them that gives them concern about inj ury etc. like a wife or something. So the moral of the story is just have fun and see you out there!

p.s i have no idea what im talking about and i recommend that you dont ask me to be your phsycologist, i probably need one haha. And all think positive thoughts (echo) about this great forecast and you guys forgot to mention foil kites. there sh1t, haha just joking

THE SONG DOESN'T WORK IF YOU SUBSTITUTE BOW IN FOR C.

Seriously, what is the story with some of these forums. I have read some interesting posts on occasions that have given some valuable info, but for the love of humanity what is the deal with some of you guys. I windsurfed for 9 years before picking up kiting just over 12 months ago and no one ever gave a **** whether someone was on a wave sail or freestyle/freeride, or rode a Naish or a Starboard. You just windsurfed end of story. One of the things that attracted me to kiting is the diversity of progressions that it has to offer and yet some of you guys bitch over completely superfulous things like a bunch of school kids. Get over yourselves, go kite and enjoy, whatever your ride or how you ride.

Here endeth the lesson.

What annoys me about bow's and I fly one is that yes they have a biger range but they pull like tanks unhooked and have the same depower range unhooked as A c kite... Very well creating a kite that depowers really well hooked in but they need to create the same wind range for unhooked because bows are more gruntier at the top end and definately could use it. Thats my main criticism...

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Originally posted by dustin

(echo) about this great forecast...

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Haha.. its up to 9knots now which is more then i can say for yesterday. Hows yesterdays form though. Half hour before we get there its 13 and rising then the minute we get there it goes 8!

If you get to the stage of unhooking with bows/hybrids spacemonkey is on the money, especially when beginning. I was quite intimidated on my old bow when unhooking, sold it and bought a 5th line hybrid.
With regard to the X-Bow and X-bow2, they flew OK unhooked when you fully depowered the kite. Using the last knot(the knot furtherest away from the kite) on the bridle set up will also prevent the kite from oversheeting.
Kiting is going in many directions, cool,I dont understand justins point.
I thought when you let go of the bar on an 07' fuel when riding suicide the 5th line gave it 100% depower???????

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I thought when you let go of the bar on an 07' fuel when riding suicide the 5th line gave it 100% depower???????

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riding suicide means the leash is attached to the chicken loop, not the 5th line, so if you drop the bar the 5th line doesnt come into play

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Originally posted by dustin

ive calculated that being optimistic works about 70% of the time but seems u prayed to the wind gods echo as its 15-21 right now.

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Pessimism worked this time mate, i had an epic session with the new T2 today. Seriously you can just hover and start to fly, ive never flown a kite with so much lift. You do your optimisimum and ill do the pessimism and maybe we will come up with a winning combo. Im going out at 8:30am tomorrow if ur keen (the wind WILL be shyte).

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Originally posted by kitepilotoz

Had an EPIC day ToDay2 perfect 6foot barreling rights consistent 20knt cross breeze, suns shining and 20kms of open beach to fly down with a couple of mates. What else could you fantasisism for??
Cold beers in the car at the end thats what!!
Fantasy works for me.
Had some fun ToDay2!!

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where the hell were u? I was doing Mudjimba to Yaroomba and the surf was tops 2-3ft with a completely onshore breeze.

lol... sorry man text doesnt capture sarcasim. It was 20knots when i was out though.