Looool I just had a fantastic session on a 3m Ozone Light II !!!!! SB reckons it was around 27 knots gusting to 32 knots and I had it parked in one spot and was doing some nice floaty jumps... I was expecting to just go up and fall like a rock but it was really cool and floaty!!! Of course it turned faster than most stunt kites, and zipped about the window all over the place but it was just so much fun!!
I was using a 130cm twintip (Cab Calibre) and I weigh about 70kg's...

So who else has ridden a 3m kite? did you like it and what were the conditions like? and who makes 3m kites anyway? I've seen a 3m Rebel before, but nothing else?



To all beginners, 3m kites aren't something you should go out and buy because they are stupidly fast and pretty dangerous in that kind of wind...

i rode a 4m reactor got over my kite in a loop then it crashed in the water and front flipped into the lines!!

Now your talking. Wish that was all that i needed.....

Have two of them > Best Grunt "C" and Naish SLE 3m

The "C" is like holding on to a demented blow fly

Cheers

Ive used a 5m waroo in 25-30knots on a 121 board and had a great time, once you get used to flying a angry wasp, bloody things move so fast. Was ripping about and getting nice jumps as well, and im 95kg.

Glennno said...

I flew a mate's ancient 4 metre peter lynn last year in 30 knots - I'm 100 kg's and was lit!

Great fun when you got moving but I wiped out so much - all or nothing and extremely fast!

did it still auto zenith

yeah a 3m would be fun, imagine Len10 on a kite that size he would be doing triple loops

Was down at Inverloch and the wind was decent... Flew a mates Flexi (May have been the Sting?) 3m foil, with handles, thought it had some grunt, chucked the board on and got on the water, worked the hell out of the kite and me, managed a little jump then I was stuffed!
Bit of fun tho...

I think there is video on EueToob of a dude riding a 3m Radsail on the water doing quite well...

Airush do 2m and 4m DNA's
haven't ridden one but their 6m is insanely fast and stable and sooo much fun

i have a 3m foil kite on handles and it lifts me of the ground in 25 to 30 nots and i still havent figerout a way to put harness straps on it but that was intense

Rhys Porter said...

To all beginners, 3m kites aren't something you should go out and buy because they are stupidly fast and pretty dangerous in that kind of wind...

Too right. My old 6.5m Cab CO2 was insanely fast compared to the 10m Element I used to use. Nothing like upgrading to a bow kite! I don't think I will ever go back to my 6.5m C even when its cranking 30knots and I could get out; safety aspect is terrible!

Great to hear you're getting out in conditions that others can't! That's what this sport is all about!

I'm 100Kgs now and these are the conditions that I've got the 7m Switchblade for. You guys can keep your wierd and wonderful old stuff.

I used to have my 8m 05 Gaastra Vision as my high wind kite. It was fun, but it did used to drop you like a stone and when you get big gusts (as you usually do with 30+ knot winds) it comes up a little short in depower campared to newer kites.

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At Woodies, WA, on a 4.5 m Flysurfer in 2007... I am around 75kg, board was a Airush Switch Pro 148x31. The wind was... strong.

It was good

Fred