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North American Championships 2013

Postby ronnie » Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:36 am

Good close-ups video.




Highlights video


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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby knot_moving » Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:59 pm

What were the wind conditions for this. Very novice kiteracer - but seemed everyone was riding fully powered upwind. Wouldnt there be advantage to going up a kite , or are downwinds really power reaches and not true downwinds?

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby longwhitecloud » Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:52 pm

if 8 kites go down at start (as happens here - 7 in tangles) is there a general recall?

nice wind for it

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby ronnie » Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:13 am

Nice bit of skill at 6:50 in the first video.

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby Adam S » Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:01 pm

knot_moving wrote:What were the wind conditions for this. Very novice kiteracer - but seemed everyone was riding fully powered upwind. Wouldnt there be advantage to going up a kite , or are downwinds really power reaches and not true downwinds?
Downwinds are true downwinds - 45 deg off true downwind on 17-15sqm kite and 10-15 deg off on 7sqm kite (you just need to loop it a lot).

The guys chose the best size possible. Most of them really know the game ;)
longwhitecloud wrote:if 8 kites go down at start (as happens here - 7 in tangles) is there a general recall?
Depends on the jury. 7 out of 40 is not even 20% of the fleet. I wouldn't recall.

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby lander » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:41 am

ronnie wrote:Nice bit of skill at 6:50 in the first video.
Agree. That is a pretty fast reaction and a difficult one too. He was even starboard

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby Tone » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:18 pm

lander wrote:
ronnie wrote:Nice bit of skill at 6:50 in the first video.
Agree. That is a pretty fast reaction and a difficult one too. He was even starboard
That's what I was thinking, It looks like Adam Koch that made the error, I could be wrong though... but super quick reactions all the same.

I wish I had water that flat to train on. where I live, unless it is <10 knots, we have 2ft short chop the whole time.

I have been in flat water once and it was a revelation!

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby davesails7 » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:56 pm

Wow that's a lot of tangles! This is more than usual right?

Why was everyone going all the way to the land after each start? Trying to avoid the current? Seems like the wind would be lower right up against the shore.

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Re: North American Championships 2013

Postby ozchrisb » Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:57 pm

Tone wrote:
I wish I had water that flat to train on. where I live, unless it is <10 knots, we have 2ft short chop the whole time.

I have been in flat water once and it was a revelation!
We usually have 2ft chop at Crissy too :) What you're seeing there is a string flood tide making the water flat. It also takes a few knots off the wind speed, plus the wind where they're tacking is super gusty and horrible. I have trouble sailing (and sometime keeping a kite in the sky) there at all, and I have no idea how they tack and get up to speed so fast in that area!


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