fully agree with the venture snowboard site saying sex dosen't matter, but height, weight, foot size, and riding style. just buying a small "guys"-board wont do the job - at least wouldn't have done for my girlfriend. She is so small, that the stance of a "normal" board even if it is realy small was...

the main place in rio is Barra da Tijuca (that's what the guy was talking about, when talking about barra) - it's in the southern part of rio. buzios is something about 200km north of rio - beautiful place! go to praia raza an look for the kiteschool there (look for eduardo the owner - he is super n...

hi gumball,

do you have the hellfish with you?
if so, i would think of going to cumbuco/taiba (i'll be in ceara and RGDN anyway) too - if you are there.

greetz
tom

...He abuses me... why complain? you seem to love it!!!! and btw, what about you abusing this forum? okay, i know the answer - you seem to love it! @ toby: is this flamers paradise???? or is it a part of the forum where people who are interested in the hellfish can get information (biased or not) -...

and how did you launch it, if it was 0 knots on the surface?

am i wrong or has this hellfish a wider/more open arc then the one we have seen before?

it was an 04 -first generation (if there were any afterwards)
so a "bad copy of an 03 kite"- as all the best bashers called them, beat the raven

But Damn the Raven it great kite!!!!! maybe the raven is a great kite, BUT the nemesis (not the hellfish!!!) is an even greater kite! today i was one of three(!!!) kiters at my local spot who could go upwind and had a lot of fun (i was the only on a damn short board - jaime 04. the others were ridi...

it's a research done by stanford university. they collected data from 7500 meteorological stations and 500 weatherballoons. unfortunately only the first map is relevant. it is the only map showing windspeed 10 meters above ground - the others are 80 meters above ground (hmm, maybe we should think ab...