Jellyfishes as much as my airblast used too. Those 2 words wont make much sence if you started kiting 05 onwards.
Compared to the Airblast that kite is as solid as a rock. The airblast could jelly like no other, but damn it was a great kite in its day.
airush had one this year, we used one to teach with and it was awesome, super stable and easy to teach with.
Gaastra Phinix 21 back in 2004 I think takes the cake, the thing was just rubbishand then the first cabrinha kites were just as bad.
Try the first cab blacktips they jelly fished like no other... First kite I actually bought myself, 15.5m projected. Shop told me it was a good size for beginners. I was all of 50kgs at the time haha.
thats what happens when your dad goes to all the kite shops in the country and tells them that sonny is the junior australian windsurfing champion and needs sponno.
the rest is history.......
Gold grennie
Although my dad wasn't that gay... come on at least give him some credit!
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I bought it in a sale at an undisclosed brisbane store...
I see kids rocking this kite in Cabarete every day and they seem to do ok! It looks weird but hey ho
struts add weight, drag, and cost. if you can use fewer and retain stability you'll have a better kite in every way. the styling looks like a kitsch '70s ufo, and i'm still undecided as to whether that's a good thing.
reminds me of an idea i was pondering recently.
for those who ride 5th line sle's, why not a three line kite? one front line goes to a simple radial bridle, and two steering lines as usual. if it wanted to somehow roll through it's lines, the bridle would not bow-tie it like a regular 5th, it would spread the load across the whole kite and tend to unwind it back to where it should be. there would be some design work in terms of bridle geometry and depower/changing angles of attack, but no more than ozone are already doing without pulleys.
It would seem that all these different designs have been tried before. Seems like a great idea to keep it simple, but I wonder whatever happened to them?
