Average Joe Kite Review- Light wind kites

[L0KI]

Hey, I've got an idea.
As a consumer who is not near a kite dealer or a demo center, call five kite brands HQ, and have each send their kite of your choice to demo for the price of postage one way (about $18 USD with Fedex Ground).
Then you can compare those five kites for yourself and decide what is what!
...Good luck getting the other four.
One advantage of dealing with a small company.

[SupaEZ]

All I can say, less than 9 knots we didn't go up wind, 9knots we all started holding the line and as the wind build that day to 10 we started going upwind better. If you watch the infinity video Nate says the exact same thing.

Did the same thing on a Cabrinha bar that was tuned. It had nothing to do with power, it has to do with where the kite flys in the window. It just likes to fly deep in the power zone.

Well said...there is only one knot.. between holding the line..and going upwind..in the lightest winds
One knot drop when the wind is light from 9kn to 8kn is similar to 4 knot drop when the wind is 18kn
Witnessed first hand the most experienced V3 rider in the world on his widest TT.....
....holding a line beautifully in 8kn (9.2mph)...but denied at going upwind

Those of us with 50 years LW wind experience can tell what is 2kn-3kn- 4kn-5kn-6kn-7kn-8kn-9kn
.. exactly ...no low balling necessary

Keep up the good work Curt
Still baffles me to have all that light wind kite testing / demos in the winter and the spring
When summer heat hits everywhere in the USA there will be a lot less hype about smallish LW kites

[SupaEZ]

Got a hunch that Coleman and Oldnbroken could be the same person
Both in Texas...both with same first name...(5 letters)
Both posted back to back today on this thread 33 minutes apart
Yesterday on the Lou Wainman thread Olnb wrote first then 9 minutes later Coleman...back to back
Do they have lunch together ? and go on KF at lunchtime
Coincidence or just bipolar avatar ?

[L0KI]

Got a hunch that Coleman and Oldnbroken could be the same person
Both in Texas...both with same first name...(5 letters)
Both posted back to back today on this thread 33 minutes apart
Yesterday on the Lou Wainman thread Olnb wrote first then 9 minutes later Coleman...back to back
Do they have lunch together ? and go on KF at lunchtime
Coincidence or just bipolar avatar ?

I have one Kiteforum account, having two would be dishonest, and if nothing else, I am honest.
I know Coleman, we kite at the same places, he is a real person, in Texas, about two hundred miles from where I am now.
Coleman is 7 letters, my name has 5.
Your over-interest in me would suggest a unhealthy state of mind.
Jeez you're a pain in the ass.
Please go find somebody else to harass, you old queen.

[SupaEZ]

I think Coleman may be his last name
His first name may be Chris ( sorry if bad spelling)
Funny thing Olnb you say that you kite together...and you are honest
Funny thing i asked Coleman once in a PM if he knew you...and he said he did not know you
Wow

[L0KI]

I think Coleman may be his last name
His first name may be Chris (sorry if bad spelling)
Funny thing Olnb you say that you kite together...and you are honest
Funny thing I asked Coleman once in a PM if he knew you...and he said he did not know you

His first name is Coleman, my first name is Chrys, as you know.
His last name is Scottish, mine is German.
He is close in age to my kids and has two sons himself.
Check the profiles you idiot, he joined the forum in 2004, I joined in 2005, you will also see that he is an acupuncturist, with a practice in Dallas and in Austin, and I have stated several times what I do and that my shops are in Austin.
We kited on the same lake Sunday, 35+ wind, me on my Smoke 9M, he ended up on his Gypsy 6.25 late in the day before snapping a steering line and swimming in from the middle of the lake, he was on his North Nugget (which he has posted about plenty) and I was on my Dialer.
After, we all had beers and venison tacos and went home to our families.
There were four other kiters and four windsurfers in our crew Sunday.
I am honest, not sure where your disconnect for correct information is, but again your over-interest in me suggests a problem in your personality, does your wife Gina know you are obsessed with a man you don't even know?
Your kooky ruminating is slightly entertaining, but I would prefer that you f*** off and die.

[BWD]

Which one of you guys shot the albatross?

No need to try to out the merely annoying.
Now that flyweight rastafakian from the NW, that was something entirely different....

Seriously, put your crossbows away and maybe the wind will blow.

[The Captain]

There is still only one king of the hill when it comes to pure low end.

[SupaEZ]

After, we all had beers and venison tacos and went home to our families.
Your kooky ruminating is slightly entertaining, but I would prefer that you f*** off and die.

This sounds honest enough

[ronnie]

I'd like to see a video of everyone who claims their kite is useable in 2 knots, where they are inside a closed aircraft hangar and walking around keeping their kites in the air.