^^this man is fast!!^^
Why does everyone post these records and then add the brand of kite?
Is it closet pimping?
The name of the record holder is more important.
When KS won 10 world titles, did anyone post the brand of board he was on?
I just wondered. Kiting seems to be the only sport where people get emotionally attached to the brand that they ride.
I guess we all do have our favorite. Especially when we start to talk to our kite surfers friends.
What it really matters is a good kiteurfer always will be no matter what kite is riding!
And I guess as people tattoo on them self Harley Davidson logo there will be for sure someone out there with a kite brand tattooed somewhere on his body.
I think your consideration it is really relevant, thanks lot let me think about it.
World record breaks have a really close link with technology.
From Formula 1 to Motogs to Swim records etc..
But never forget the amazing people that are the HEROS
I think it is impressive by any means.
As far as Cabrinha goes they might need to change there marketing about which kite is their speed kite. Don't they advertise the crossbow as their speed kite?
Yeah but in order to have good upwind performance, the kite needs to have low drag, which makes it aerodynamically efficient and therefore fast.
Of course not fast in the sense of turning speed, that's a totally different thing.
So it is essentially what speed kiters want as well, what they might add though is more responsiveness, like some are using pulley bars.
There are some irritable cranky people on sb tonight! Must be the weather.
My point was that the rider should get mentioned first but that the people who make the posts here promote the brand before the rider.
It is the rider who breaks the records, not the kite. Sometimes we forget.
it's not something to get knickerknotted about!
where is the place to beat this record in Australia???
How many knots do you need to go 6oknts on average?
I wonder what the difference is between the wind speed and the rider speed is for the top 5 records...
I'd like to give that a go one day, I like to go fast :)
But i reckon it could be quite hard getting the right conditions at the right place in Aus.
I got to 32 knots one day when we were playing with my GPS. Going twice that would be scaaaaary
an emoticon just so you know i am joking this time.
When Oz held the record for many years with the "Yellow Pages" rig they ran it at Sandy Point near Waratah Bay in Gippsland, Victoria. Should be easy to find info on it.
