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Toby
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 12:40 pm |
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Hi Tomi,
I never tried the smaller FS, only 15 and bigger.
But any kite that has a good lift, hangs long, is slow (or can be trimmed slow) and good bar feedback will work for Airstyle.
The problem will be a missing stopper or microloop...you need it.
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Krucifix
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:43 pm |
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Good as new, bought from someones closet for apx. 75 USD (!) 2006 NAISH RAVEN 16.0  kite only, going to use with new bar  What do you think?
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Toby
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:31 pm |
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Never tried it, but Raven is a kite with lift and hangtime, and it shouldn't steer fast, so it will be good!
Let us know how it works out for you!
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:04 pm |
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I will, but now it is quite imposible to kite in these days in middle europe. Temperature apx. 0°C and most lakes are still frozen  and travelling to more weather-friendly location is planned to next month
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Toby
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:11 pm |
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ok, no problem. whenever you tested it, let us know 
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 3:42 am |
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I had a great session on the 2012/13 Ocean Rodeo Prodigy 14m in a steady 15-20 knots. It's a 3 strut, delta shape. Not sure if it was just the wind that day or what, but pulling down on the bar during decent just gave me another up. Anyway, it has the best hang time of any LEI I've used so far (and the handling is good) making it great for board offs. A 14m is still a bit small for going old school, but it's as big as they make it.
Personally, I don't think anything beat the foils (FS Speed 3) for hang time, but .... they have a few compromises....
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Toby
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 8:21 am |
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True about the FS! And they jump high!
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Kamikuza
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Post subject: Re: Best Old school Kites? Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:18 pm |
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gavin feargrieve wrote: I had a great session on the 2012/13 Ocean Rodeo Prodigy 14m in a steady 15-20 knots. It's a 3 strut, delta shape. Not sure if it was just the wind that day or what, but pulling down on the bar during decent just gave me another up. Anyway, it has the best hang time of any LEI I've used so far (and the handling is good) making it great for board offs. A 14m is still a bit small for going old school, but it's as big as they make it.
Personally, I don't think anything beat the foils (FS Speed 3) for hang time, but .... they have a few compromises.... I love my Flite 17 - hang time is really good, just seem to hover for ages, but the altitude isn't as good as FSer I think. They do a Flite 15 too...
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