The BFK 16 is an awesome jumping machine. I love it.

Beebes333 wrote:Americans travelling to Brazil MUST have a visa...

If you're just a US resident (green card etc.) and not a US citizen you might not need to obtain a visa beforehand:
http://www.brazilsf.org/visa_tourist_eng.htm
http://www.brazilsf.org/visa_by_country.htm

If you prefer riding your kites with a 5th line you can move the stopper ball for the safety closer to the kite. If the kite crashes and you can't launch it immediately then deploy the safety and the kite will fly upside down above the waves. I had to this a few times and it worked pretty well. (pic...

http://forum.bestkiteboarding.com/viewtopic.php?t=856 >We had a similair problem with a X4, it's was always turning turning to >the right. Which was no fun. >In the end we got the tube from the leading edge out and re-inserted it, >that did the trick. Kite was more stable. >I think that the tube of ...

Fokiten is still way funnier than you guys.

pauli wrote:Does the Hellfish have a ball-valve system on the leading edge and centre struts?

The hellfish has ball valves on all struts and also on the leading ege.

NIN wrote:So how much of the kite actually is Cuben Fiber?

Pretty much everything is made of cuben fiber except for the first foot (or less) of the struts depending on the strut. It's not like they are saving material cost...

mikes wrote:Funny, now that the Hellfish has started shipping there aren't any reviews or posts that I've come across about the performance of the production HF's.

Most people that ordered early got their hellfish kites early this week. And I suppose most of them have to work from Monday to Friday...

The front sections of the struts on my production hellfish kites (11+15) are not made of segmented rings, just 2 pieces of dacron. But because the struts are so thin compared to traditional struts it works just fine with only a few minor wrinkles at the seams. And let's not forget that the front par...

I think you finally made it, I can see the pics....

Nice job.
I'm not sure but you can probably get that T-connector with a threading, saves you that 5 minute task where you glue in the bushing.