campatrol said...

G,day all.
I was doing some youtubing for kiteboarding helmet cams etc.
I watched this one bloke yellow helmet and how he moved his kite.
He moved the bar bugger all and the kite turned like hell.
also it looked like it took no effort or pressure on the bar to get the kite to move
Like that.

Theres no way my arc foil handles like that. No hope in hell.
Ive got to swing off the bar (10 years old kite)

So the question is do all these new kites work and handle like this?
How do they turn like that?
It looked like it had pullies or somthing? Or power steering lol
I know its an odd and probably dumb question but im keen to know what
The go is.
Cheers cam

looks pretty normal to me... (I fixed your link in the quote)
probably a 2001 kite isn't the best weapon of choice though... doest it even have depower????

Yeah shes got Depower dosent seem to do much though hahaha
Well if thats how most kites steer and turn im damn looking forward to getting me another one.
Thats heaps cool.
Thanks for the replys lads
cheers cam

Ironically, I would say the kite in that isn't particularly fast by 2011 standards. Its probably mid range turning speed. There are faster and slower kites. The C shaped ones are generally much faster, the flatter ones slowly. Most 10m bridled kites in 2011 would be at least as fast as this, if not faster.

I took a Arc for a ride in port melbourne and it was weird. You virtually had to phone the kite, ask it for permission to turn, get approval from the board of directors and it would then decide to turn...if you were lucky. Granted it was a 19m Arc that was about 8 years old, but I've seen milk turn faster than that kite. In its defence, any 8 year old kite is going to be slower than cancer so I don't think its unique to the Arc, just the kites of the day.