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The local kiters in Maui I met last week were riding a lot of Best C kites. The rest were about evenly distributed between crossbow, Naish C, shockwave, North, one guy on an Airush, one on a GK sonic, one on a Caution, and one guy on a prototype bow (he was the best kiter out there).

I didn't see any Slinghot, Gaastra, Windwing, or non-lei kites at all.

In La Ventana last week, there were an amazingly high % of bow kites out there, STDs, Sonics, and one guy on a Waroo who was kickin it. He was out in 30 mph gusting to 40 on a 7M, and man was he having fun.

Other than that, I didn't pay that much attention to brands.

I was staying with someone who repairs kites, so I did get to see that bow kites are not any more indestructible than C kites. Especially when you overestimate their ease of self-landing and have them relaunch on their own and impale themselves on trees, fences, and buildings.

You got watch out for STDs in La Ventana...
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Pablito wrote:In La Ventana last week, there were an amazingly high % of bow kites out there, STDs, Sonics, and one guy on a Waroo who was kickin it. He was out in 30 mph gusting to 40 on a 7M, and man was he having fun.

Other than that, I didn't pay that much attention to brands.

I was staying with someone who repairs kites, so I did get to see that bow kites are not any more indestructible than C kites. Especially when you overestimate their ease of self-landing and have them relaunch on their own and impale themselves on trees, fences, and buildings.

I can vouch for that...

And to top it all off, now you've got an STD, huh Karl?

Pablito wrote:And to top it all off, now you've got an STD, huh Karl?

No blow job jokes Paul. :mrgreen:

I got white stuff blown in my face all day yesterday -- awesome powder day.