Hey guys as a newbie to the sport I just bought myself a C02 Cabrinha kite to hear they are no good. Can I still learn with this one I am 74kg and read the 12 m are good for light winds but what about when summer starts will this still be fine?
what about when summer starts will this still be fine?
Freewake, the CO2 will never be fine. Even 12 years ago, it was not fine. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/Newbies-Tips-Tricks/Cabrinha-CO2-12m/
I agree with previous comments, the CO2 is not fine & never has been fine. The short de-power of this kite makes it extremely dangerous for beginners. The safety release systems are suspect at best & relaunching these kites is not easy.
Your progression with a kite like this will have increased risk & will take much longer. We have two of these kites in our shop that have been given to us after being purchased online following the kiters knowledge & experience afterwards,. The owners will not take them back & we certainly wouldn't sell them. We're keeping them for ornamental pieces & considering cutting them up to make bags or umbrellas. We keep the bars on display next to modern ones to clearly show the difference.
Of course you can learn to kite on a CO2. Many of us learned to kite and kited very successfully on the CO2 and similar kites.
The real question is, should you? F-uck no!
Kites prior to 2005 had very poor de-power capability. What that means is if you lose control of it then it you had no effective way of stopping it. If there's something hard like rocks, or a wall or power lines then the end result could be fatal.
In the early days kites were also nose heavy which made them prone to "hindenberging". A kite that appeared to be happily sitting in the air could drop into the middle of the power zone then recover with disastrous consequences.
PS. The CO2 was pretty sh-it in 2002 when it was new.
Plus one for the NO case. These kites are seriously dangerous. No experienced kiter would dream of putting up any of these old C kites. Not just because they are dangerous but they are shyte to ride. Even if you were stupid enough to try learning on it the best outcome would be that it would take you 12 months to get even close to where you could be 1 month on a real kite. Send it back or bin it.
