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WAROO VS SWITCH BLADE TEST: Today in Brasil!

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WAROO VS SWITCH BLADE TEST: Today in Brasil!

Postby surferazul » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:39 pm

Well i just asked to two guys in the beach to test their kites cause, they were parked on the beach and they kindly agree. I have to say i kite since 5 years and have a mid level...
This has been my first aproach to flat kites.
So this thing called Waroo, quite impressed me so soft and right placed on the window, it turns sharp and accurate, and had an awesome upwind abylity, the pressure at the bar was so light, just the necesry i needed to feel good and powered.
In the other hand, the cabrinha bow, was really powerfull, that much that i was difficult to make it upwind because of the exeeded traction i guess.
it was flying deeper into the wind window so it had much less upwind, and it has a lot more of pull when i was turning the thing up and down.
So the feeling has been much more possitive to the Waroo that was like a ferrari, ahead of the truck feeling of the Switchblade.
I guess this guys have been testing much more, and being the last, had reinvented the kite so they are far ahead.
Give it a try!!! u will believe!

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Postby kruzlifix » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:31 pm

@surferazul
hi there
what size where both kites? how much wind did you have and what is your weight?
andreas :bye:

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Postby kitehigh911 » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:52 pm

I disagree with you. I have a 12 switchblade and for wakestyle it is the best kite out there. The switchblade doesnt sit far back in the wind window. It goes upwind even better when it is juiced. I am 140 and 14 years old and stoked on the switchblade.

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Postby don pitcher » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:20 am

Did you see when "surferazul" joined the forum? :-?

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Postby kitehigh911 » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:15 am

no i didnt but now i see

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Postby dewey » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:22 am

Wow 2 posts, and the best kite is far beyond any other flat kite. Haven't we seen this before...........

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Postby Dookz » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:23 am

Hahahaha

Ahh this reminds me of the forum early this year...
They're coming again, the evil internet lurkers...
Lets not forget how quiet things became after the hellfish scandal :)

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Postby sq225917 » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:30 am

well thats one we've sold... :wink:

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Re: bow kites

Postby theflyingtinman » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:37 am

kitehigh911 wrote:I disagree with you. I have a 12 switchblade and for wakestyle it is the best kite out there. The switchblade doesnt sit far back in the wind window. It goes upwind even better when it is juiced. I am 140 and 14 years old and stoked on the switchblade.
He was making comparative statements about the Switchblade and the
Waroo, not definititive statements about the Switchblade...
surferazul wrote: ...it was flying deeper into the wind window so it had much less upwind
How can you disagree with with a comparison when you have only ever
experienced one of the kites being compared?

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Postby kitehigh911 » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:47 am

how can i compare, because all best kites are junk and are made very poorly, and cuben fiber is a joke. Why do we need it. the poleyester works great.


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