WEATHER TO RIDE… OR NOT?
Kiteboarding gear is safer than ever yet incidents continue to happen, many times to seasoned riders. Experienced kiteboarders are all too often indifferent to weather hazards.
Tag: "october 2009"
Backwoods: Saona Island
Situated on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, Saona Island is a pristine tropical paradise that has been featured in many movies and commercials.
Nov 24, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Naish Cult 2010
Due to the success of the 2009 Helix and the new 2010 Helix, essentially a brand new kite, Naish combined the best of last year’s Helix and Cult to product the 2010 Cult.
Nov 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Slingshot Comp Stick 2010 Control System
The biggest challenge was trying to get all of the features we wanted to incorporate into the bar to work together in a streamlined design, without compromise.
Nov 22, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: NPX Zealot 2010
The goal was to incorporate some of the newest neoprene technologies to make the Zealot even warmer, lighter, and stretchier than last year.
Nov 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Best Nemesis NXG 2010
I had taken the Nemesis HP design as far as it would go. I simply couldn’t make it jump higher, ride faster or deliver more power, so we had to look at other ways of improving it.
Nov 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Eclipse Surge 2010
The Surge is a completely new design within a traditional C-kite geometry.
Nov 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Globe Trix 2010
The flying feeling and performance can be adjusted to react like the Trix 09, but can also be adjusted like a totally new kite with low bar pressure, very stable, perfect for cruising.
Nov 20, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Caution Mayhem X 2010
We kept the name the same for the 2010 model, but made significant changes to the profile and wingtips, making some serious gains in efficiency and control.
Nov 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Launch and Land By Yourself
While it’s always best to launch and land your kite with the help of a fellow kiteboarder, there are many times when you need help with nobody around to assist you.
Nov 19, 2009 | 3 comments | View Post
The Exception: Kitesurfing with a Leash
In Santa Cruz, California, some of the best reef breaks are not kite-friendly with variable wind shadows and waves smashing directly onto rock cliffs, often with no beach in sight. In these spots, separation from your board is not an option.
Nov 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: RRD Obsession 2010
The Obsession was already a great kite, so we focused on small details to improve its overall performance.
Nov 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Jimmy Lewis Chamber KT
The main goal was to capture the highest performance wave characteristics of my top surfboard and make it suitable for kiting.
Nov 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Naish Helix 2010
We had to live up to the hype from the previous edition as many customer were telling us that we should not mess with it. However, we did introduce a new foil profile on this kite that has proven itself to increase turning speed and overall efficiency.
Exploring La Ventana
La Ventana is a great place to take a kiteboarding vacation, but it’s also much more than that. It’s a great home base from which you can explore all that Southern Baja has to offer, just a short drive away.
Nov 13, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post
Kiteboarding in the Digital Age
It used to be that the best way to find out if it was windy enough to ride was to drive down to the beach and take a look with your own eyes. Back then, it seemed like I did more driving around trying to find wind than I did actually riding. Of course this was before every 16-year-old and their mom had phones able to access the internet with them at all times.
Nov 13, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Best Waroo 2010
The Waroo is a known commodity — riders know what to expect from it. To keep moving the kite forward we had to make significant changes to its shape.
Nov 13, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: F-One Bandit III
This is the third generation of the original, patent-pending delta design introduced by F.one in 2007 but it is really a new kite with a new profile, outline, aspect ratio, bridle, bar and graphics.
Nov 13, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Slingshot Octane 2010
The 2010 Octane our is the next generation of one our most successful designs, the 2009 Rev, but also incorporates the DNA from our original Octane which people loved, making it the next evolution of that style kite.
Nov 13, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Designer’s Corner: Liquid Force Envy 2010
The idea with the Envy was to create an easy to fly, all around pure fun kite! The Envy is a delta-hybrid, or as we like to say, “beyond delta.” The delta Hybrid incorporates the popular benefits of a delta kite, such as ease of flying, wind range and instant relaunchability, with the proven LF SLE technologies, such as our Diamond Wingtip and USB 2.0 Bridle configuration.
Nov 13, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Bill Tai: The Kite Guy of Silicon Valley
Like many kiteboarders out there, Bill Tai is passionate about the sport. He is just like the rest of us addicts, every possible opportunity and talking the sport enough that some know him the “Kite Guy” in Silicon Valley, but what seperates Bill from most of the rest of us kite bums is what he does for a living.
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
The Kiteboarder October 2009 Issue Now Available Online
Want to see the complete line of 2010 products from your favorite brands? What are riders’ opinions on the new 2010 gear? Looking for the hottest new action or gear videos?
Nov 11, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
