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Re: Thank you Lou Wainman

Postby GTC » Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:37 pm

Toby wrote:
Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:16 pm
Sad to see what happened to Wainman kites.
Agree... Awesome kites with unique characteristics and very fun to fly. Haven't found anything that compares. My new '18 kite is a piece of crap compared to the Wainmans.
After owning a Smoke 9 for 5 years I recently bought another one as a replacement.
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Re: Thank you Lou Wainman

Postby Kamikuza » Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:15 am

Toby wrote:
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Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:52 pm
Nice :)

It was a Corey Roesler pic on water skis that got me gong.
When did you start?
Had a three-day course around 2003, but decided it'd be better learning to landboard first because I thought it's be easier, I'd have easier access to parks here and the beach was hours away.

Wrong. :D

The parks here are a lot smaller once you launch a kite and there's always some party-pooper to come and spoil your fun.

So I got disheartened and kind of gave up until about 2009...

And to crown it all off, it turned out we live 15 minutes drive from the kite surf club on the lake :roll:

But the Corey picture was in a random magazine some years before that, mid to late 90s maybe. Might have even been a hanggliding and paragliding magazine...

I'd seen kites and buggies in the eighties, maybe even Peter Lynn himself (lived nearby), but as a kid the price blew me away :D

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Re: Thank you Lou Wainman

Postby fernmanus » Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:28 am

Hey don't forget about Lou's partner in crime, Eliott Leboe. Those two owned kitebeach in 2000. Lou the king of freestyle and Eliott sending it high. I remember taking lessons there and those two would lose a kite or two every afternoon. It was a junk show!

I wonder what they would think if you told them that in 20 years the majority of the riders would be wearing full-length wetsuits, hoovering a meter off the water? :rollgrin:

I saw Flash at Kanaha yesterday. He is still riding, but not doing it for a living.

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Re: Thank you Lou Wainman

Postby Flyboy » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:00 am

fernmanus wrote:
Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:28 am
I saw Flash at Kanaha yesterday. He is still riding, but not doing it for a living.
What kind of equipment is he using?

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Re: Thank you Lou Wainman

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:12 am

When I saw him last he was on Naish, doing massive handle passes.
That was few years ago.


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