Every single kite brand has their issues. When I first started kiting, I expected brand support but quickly found that it was minimal especially for consumables like bars and lines. Thats when my focus changed from complaining about it to doing something. None of the gear I use today is standard man...

I will rollup the kite with the bar in front of the leading edge and put the kite back in the bag with the bar outside the bag in the outside pocket. Still have the benefits of bar attached to kite without a soggy mess.

The North/Duotone click rar does not handle looping well and will bind... Totally frustrating for me. I have the OR Click Bar I use for my LEI's but it does not have any metal in the center hole and I don't like the feeling of the PU tube to bar interface - Feels rough. For my foil kites I have been...

joriws wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 05, 2018 11:09 am

Problem with Click-bar is that it binds if you turn the kite which is IMO the worst thing in kite bars and foil kites like to be sheeted.

+1. I tried the Click bar for one session and the binding while looping was too much hassle.

downunder wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 12, 2018 8:49 am

Many of us live in sharks infested waters as well

Plenty of wildlife in the ocean throughout the world. Shark sightings are common in SoCal.

Total garbage. Nothing like the power and response of a foil kite combined with super light bar pressure foiling high upwind. From five years ago to today, we now have about 20% of the local kiters hydrofoiling. From five years ago to today we went from 1-2 foil kites to close to 15% or more across ...

I love Camet Boards and one of the choices you have is a "distressed look" where Brian will actually sand away paint before doing the final clear coats. Makes it a unique piece and distracts theft since it looks old and beat up. 100% sure that board in the pic would have been painted solid white bef...

R&D does not get applied to every aspect of kite boarding evenly... In four years we went from Speed 4 to Chrono 1, Chrono 2, R1v1, R1v2, R1v3, back to R1v2, Elf, F-One, Speed 5, Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic Race, Sonic VMG, Hyperlink, and Soul ... Speed4 Lotus seemed to match stencils of Speed3, the Sp...

Every year that time we have new kites coming with better turning speed,better low and ,new bomb prof material new stiching new who now's what and then crazy priceses for bar today slingshot is out and the bar is 490 quit how crazy is that.I'm sure their will be some new twigs for a bars who did ch...

For SoCal, We post of classifieds on the following three groups. https://www.facebook.com/groups/167699799923802/?ref=br_rs Belmont Kite Friends https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCKAPres/ Southern California Kiteboarding Association https://www.facebook.com/groups/sdkiteboarders/ San Diego Kite Board...