Who is the best High wind (30kn+) Foil Kitelooper on water?

knyfe · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:29 pm **Posts:** 171

well, that video is a rather bad ad for flysurfer seeing that even the newest kite out there loops really slow compared to any other tube out there. I thought that was not the case any more.

Still wait for a time to try the kite. G

Pump me up · **Joined:** Fri Jan 24, 2003 1:00 am **Posts:** 662

knyfe wrote:

well, that video is a rather bad ad for flysurfer seeing that even the newest kite out there loops really slow compared to any other tube out there.

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Tone · **Joined:** Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:34 pm **Posts:** 959

knyfe wrote:

well, that video is a rather bad ad for flysurfer seeing that even the newest kite out there loops really slow compared to any other tube out there. I thought that was not the case any more.

Still wait for a time to try the kite. G

you can compare that 8m Speed4 to a 10m Lei, agreed, still not as fast as a 10 C, but as fast as a bow I think.

Very good hangtime it would seem.

voodoospirit · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:03 pm

we all know that C, bow, delta, hybrid , turn at the same speed.......

when i see a switch/hydra truning, can t say it s faster than a flysurfer.

jens · **Joined:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:47 pm **Posts:** 73

I have never seen a mega loop performed on a foil. People have forgotten what a mega loop really is. Watch this video filmed 08 from 2:30 to the end. I have never seen the height and distance traveled downwind matched. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaWM6lY70YI

plummet · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:43 pm

knyfe wrote:

well, that video is a rather bad ad for flysurfer seeing that even the newest kite out there loops really slow compared to any other tube out there. I thought that was not the case any more.

Still wait for a time to try the kite. G

Have you ever looped a foil? if you want to loop like a man. then loop a foil and experience POWER. Silly little C kite loops are gutless and pussy by comparison.

knyfe · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:29 pm **Posts:** 171

plummet wrote:

Have you ever looped a foil? if you want to loop like a man. then loop a foil and experience POWER. Silly little C kite loops are gutless and pussy by comparison.

The foils I owned were Mosquito 5.5 & 9 / Speedair 12 / Psycho1 12 / Psycho2 19. Only the Psycho 12 could be looped and I did that only 2-3 times and gave up and waited for something different to loop. I agree to that - the radius was Huge and with that the pull.

The difference is that I still would like to try the Speed4s as I am not big into looping anyway and like hangtime a lot. Looping is just not a solid point of the kite as I see it. Hangtime for sure - hell yeah ...

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TheJoe · **Joined:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:13 pm **Posts:** 763

voodoospirit wrote:

we all know that C, bow, delta, hybrid , turn at the same speed.......

when i see a switch/hydra truning, can t say it s faster than a flysurfer.

Um no they do not. Turn speed and radius are all so different. C's for example turn in a radius and generate power in the turn. Delta's pivot turn or on a radius just depends on the kite. Who still makes a bow besides Cabrinha? Bows turn really slow and I don't like them.

Sorry but foils just don't do it for me.

Windrider · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:36 am

Do you mean on Tuesdays or on Sundays when it's a full moon?

getting mighty specific in your question there, mate....

Tone · **Joined:** Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:34 pm **Posts:** 959

jens wrote:

I have never seen a mega loop performed on a foil. People have forgotten what a mega loop really is. Watch this video filmed 08 from 2:30 to the end. I have never seen the height and distance traveled downwind matched. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaWM6lY70YI

If you are saying that those loops are the only bona fide loops ever done then you are right, I have never seen a mega loop on a foil.

But. Hadlow says anything about 10m is a megaloop - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-f6XfI ... age#t=455s

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