In my opinion these are the best comments ever to flow from the keyboard of Sir Rowdy.
Long live the C
Long live Sir Rowdy
Death to Fashion
sooo, if you ride the surfboard without straps, that gives you full cred for degree of difficulty.
aaand you need a kite that tells you where it is in the sky at any given time with precise feedback........is that not a cop out?
Bows are good for kite schools and pensioners, apparently the give you a pensioners discount on bows but not on C´s
FFS, bow kites have BRIDLES, and this word is a noun.
Weddings have brides and brides have BRIDAL parties, BRIDAL boutiques etc., and this word is an adjective.
Flame away if you will, but please at least learn this distinction too.
Started off learning unhooked stuff last season on SLE's. As usual for anyone learing unhooked I was often lofting the kite and getting dangled or having my arms ripped out of their sockets as the kite stayed powered up after popping.
Yeh, I know it was all technique but I had none. Ended up grapping a cheapy C, 06 Yarga. Fell in love the first raley I tried, no dangle, no stretched arms, it was just so easy. The line slack is brilliant, gives you so much time to hook back in.
C's have their limitations, wind range, depower, but for unhooked they excel. I have one C in my quiver, that is enough, I use it in the right conditions and it always makes me smile. Currently upgrading to the Best team C, told it is a copy of the 06 yarga, just love the easy 4 line relaunch, good depower and line slack. Anyone want a real cheap C to learn unhooked on, contact me.
when you are an experienced rider, c kites are generally less drama as they have less mechanical things to go wrong.
c kiters tend to be the kind of riders that love to ride so much that they don't have time to talk to you about the latest developments in kite technology before a session, they are usually focused on their next session progression.
The flat bow revolution died just because the pull was not so good for freestyle and because they relaunched like ****.
No one can argue with the fact that Youri kills it. My mate tells me rpm is a good kite for slack pull after pop which is awesome- but i still don't like pullies and bridles - i just can't be bothered with the dramas, and in super high wind frontal riding pullies and bridles scare the **** out of me.
Tension on a 5th line is a great thing when your rigging a kite too big for the conditions... oh hang on... no one ever does that!
It's also a great way to munch through a really gusty session.
Yes, it'll fly a bit like ass but you'll still be able to unhook and get 80% of the kites performance. I like to think of it as 'bow-kite mode' for a c-kite.
Having spent a bit of time on the early Ozone Instinct's with their tensioned mid-line (no it's not a fifth line!), and then swapping to Alliances and Torches i took a lot of the tuning experience on the Ozone and occasionally apply it to my C's.
As for if the Alliance is a C or not... meh. It's a softcore C.
talking bridles
C compared to air ram
peter lynns and flysurfers all boost and float well. plus an autozenith.
never ridden them but they seem to be "out of fashion"
hehehe
C kites teach you better kite, board and edge control.
If you know how to edge to depower, you can fly any kite.
Im pretty sure competition drives development in almost all industries.
What happened to kiteboarding?
Almost every competition is won by C kite guys.
Now Im starting to think kite schools drive kiteboarding development. I'm guessing they buy and sell the majority of kites. I guess those kites are sold to beginners.