Wondering the same ! I'm guessing its a close secondPogibro wrote:I'm curious about light wind performance. Can anyone compare it to the previous champ, the Speed 3 21 meter?
Wondering the same ! I'm guessing its a close secondPogibro wrote:I'm curious about light wind performance. Can anyone compare it to the previous champ, the Speed 3 21 meter?
Nothing like that, it's just magic. I pump my 13 Cloud to 6-7 psi. Until you try it you will just not believe how fast and stable these kites are.plummet wrote:I'm trying to understand how the no strut kite works. the only thing i can come up with is mega pressure. Have you stiffened the le bladder and pump 20-30 psi into it?
ps is it a light wind only kite? the vid seems to be light wind.
I think this is in a large part because people simply don't know about the kite. Most of the people that ask me about my Clouds ask something like "who makes that"? But they generate a lot of interest, especially after people see how they fly.Global sales volume for Boardriding Maui is sufficient to sustain the effort but is below what one high volume store sells to a single market. So seems either my designs are too outside the norm or that dealing with the designer is not interesting to most riders. Regardless, I'm holding the course and send mad thanks to the supporters.
andI didn't have any strong impression if this was weight or steering speed or something else.
I have a variation on this theory. I definitely don't think the drift is anything to do with turning speed. I think mostly the light weight of the kite. But also, I think it is the lack of struts. The most extreme drift I see is if I come out of a turn moving really fast, but I started moving the kite too late. The result is a huge amount of slack in the lines. With strutted kites, this would result in the nose of the kite dipping into the wind and the kite falling out of the sky (and often tumbling through the lines). With the Cloud, I still get the same amount of slack and the nose still dips into the wind a bit. But, instead of hindenburging, the canopy of the kite luffs heavily. The kite drifts back into the wind window. The first lines to generate tension are the back lines, which pulls the nose back up, filling the canopy and the kite starts flying as normal again.My theory is that the profile going flat reduces the lift at the front of the canopy driving the kite forward in the window. The result when sheeting out while surfing is that the kite is dropping back as your turning under it reducing the likelihood of the lines going slack and/or the lift pitching the kite forward resulting in the kite dropping.
boardriding maui wrote: Instead of making gear obsolete my hope is to provide something like a software update so riders can continue to get the latest and greatest in the gear they already have.
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