Anyone know anymore on these than what's provided here:http://www.wainmanhawaii.com/products.php
The guy was so far ahead of his time it's hard to be anything but interested.
his website could use a bit of work. why is it so futuristic... ot claims it does what every kite in the market claims to do, but then doesnt go in to detail why, sorry but not really impressed, admititly ive never head of him, who is he?
Hmm.. Not sure if you're taking the piss or not.
If not, he was one of the original Maui crew and was nailing tricks back then that most struggle with now, but was doing it on the very first kites.
Fair to say, A Legend!
I hadn't heard of him either. I just searched his name on youtube and this is what I found: and HOLY **** he was WAY ahead of his time!
Yeh can you imagine how good he would have been if safety leashes worked 10 years ago!!
i'm surprised he is promoting a bridled model in the range. wainman has always been loudly opposed to SLE kites
Is no one gonna pick 'Slave up on his claim to be a pioneer of kiting??!?
'I need to pioneer another board sport'
And on a post about Wainman too...
gimme a break.
lol
lots of people pioneered 2 lines, some excelled, some crashed and burned and lou was the shining light........egos........egos............nice pioneering 'slave......SUP for you next. good call ben.
lol
yeah and i pioneered it to..........lol.
p.s. quick everyone can claim now if they want, the door is open for a claim fest.
I remember him being the main pusher for a wake board style that had square ends. It was the first I saw that didn't use the fork designs which everyone else was using at the time. It ended up being the standard as far as twin tip designs go. It was called the hazmat and was totally rad at the time.
Lou was one of the first to ride the pickle fork design. Jimmy lewis made them in the early days, and Liquid Force made a Lou signature 141 Pickle fork. Thats way back in the day though. I actually had a couple of pickle forks my self, a 141 and a 151. They sucked! but that was a long time ago now, back when we used 2-line kites, and no leashes.
Lou was doing it way before any one! When I say doing it, I mean pushing it, and hard! Watching Lou, Mauricio, Elliot and crew in those early days was just painful. Never seen any one punish them selves like they did. If you can find a movie called "HIGH" watch it. Most of Lou's moves are better than anyone is doing today (if you are going to compare them to wakeboarding moves) and that was shot in 1998.
Very talented rider.
JB
If you want more old school Lou, Elliot, Robby, Mauricio, Flash Austin and the guys check out "Air Sickness" on VHS. Everyone is ripping pretty hard but Lou's segment in the very end is in a completely different league.. He's the king, simple as that.
