omnismurfz wrote:TY for the info, I'm going to call kyle today.
Also I don't buggy either, nor am I planning on it. I was mainly interested in snowkiting and maybe some kiteboarding next summer. You don't think these kites are good for that?
My advice is buy a brand new kite and get going. I suppose it's possible to use those kites for snow kiting and kiteboarding it might take you months to learn in what you otherwise would be able to figure out in days or weeks. A brand new kite will give you tons of depower, safety and ability to relaunch. What good is it to have a cheap kite with poor relaunch capabilities, if every time you crash it, your session is over? I also like brand new kites for a beginner because if you kook it up, at least you know your safeties, and lines will all work as advertised.
I know plenty of people on this forum advise getting an older kite, but not too old, because they are cheaper, but for a newbie, figuring out which is good and what is worthless is an impossible task, it's much quicker to get a new kite and get started immediately without having to worry about your gear.
Once you get to the intermediate phase, you can go try whatever old stuff you want, and you can use those foils for snow kiting, but as a beginner, you progress so much faster with a brand new and forgiving kite.
The kites you mentioned are particularly well suited for buggies and landboarding but we don't practice that landlocked sport much here in MI, nestled as it is in the biggest coastline of continental united states.
Hope to see you this Friday, take the day off work, it's gonna blow!