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jjm · Post by **jjm** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:18 pm

I didn't post the original thread URL: http://www.kiteforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2322720

Starting to get some interesting discussion going, including:

Windzup wrote: ...I think the future of snowkiting will be large kites on short lines, where we will snowkite up a hill and then fly down like in this video.

elli · Post by **elli** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:22 pm

This site supposedly have good snow kiting videos, too big for me to download:

http://www.mach12.fr/page-video/video.htm

elli · Post by **elli** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:50 pm

WOW Josh that was cool. Looks like a video game.
There are paragliders by the way, not kites. The big difference between a paraglider and a kite is the line length, when you have long lines of a kite you are swinging underneath it like a pendulum.

Any semnozkitesurfing.com tour movie from 04 is amazing, specifically Silvaplana and Guielo (if I spelled it right). I think they don't have them any more, I can try to email that, its pretty big.

There is one that the guy is carving a wall side to side (rather than upside down) where he leans so backward that the board is above his head, so he is upside down carving against the power of the kite above him. They totally abuse the terrain and gravitation going up, down sideways, any direction.

elli · Post by **elli** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:04 pm

Crush and burn movies:
http://media1.break.com/content/kite.wmv

The notoriously violent flexifoil blade:
http://www.crustysoft.co.uk/Kites/video ... 0Jump-.wmv
http://www.crustysoft.co.uk/Kites/video ... lying.mpeg

Sometimes you just need to let go of the kite.

WOP · Post by **WOP** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:38 pm

Great videos elli

panzerfaust · Post by **panzerfaust** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:30 pm

oh man, I laughed so hard that everyone around had to come over and check out what was going on, thanks elli

Pablito · Post by **Pablito** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:39 pm

And kicking your legs frantically accomplishes what?

I want to know what happened after that video ended. It looks like the next thing he was going to hit was one of those parked cars.

charlie · Post by **charlie** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:05 pm

i think imo that thay are paragliding, and also i know thay do that in france somewere are maybe crazy frenchmen doit, in the summer, with markers
like a slomom cours and race 4 to a heat down the mounten 15 feet off the deck. trying to pass eachother
the kites here look smaller.
what a blast ... that is were are water based sport is going....
up,and up, and glide around.
so get my flaps ready and luanch me into the wind!

and id be kickn o would i be kick n and scream n
o shut i was watch n speedrideing

dewey · Post by **dewey** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:37 pm

found this on kiteforum. Looks like the same size parachute!!!

http://www.highflyerz.co.uk/VX-39_Fantastico-High.wmv

elli · Post by **elli** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:20 pm

There is definitely a link between kites and paragliders.

A lot of foil kites are actually made by paraglider companies. Ozone and Flysurfer are the most famous ones, but also Advance, PKD, MACÖ
I think flysurfer is just a brand name for their kites.

Flysurfer kite designer Armin Harich was a German pargliding champion. He still tests the FS kites as paragliders using paraglider harness. I read somewhere that since people are getting huge airs on the snow jumping from cliffs with kites, they actually need to test the safety of the kites in flight.

They even have a new model which is a kite/praglider mutant, called "Taco" :shock: Special NorCal edition will be called "Taco de Pollo" :)

This is Armin testing one of the kites as a paraglider:

BayAreaKiteboarding.com

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