actually looks a lot smoother than most hack passes iv seen, french guys know whats cool anyway
sweet now i can do pass less surface passes with backless bindings on a 100% depower kite!
I'm with the uncool half of you guys... I think it would be fun, those double roll things just look freakin awesome 
Find me a place to buy one and ill let you know how it goes :)
if its good enough for hadlow.. saw the early vids with hadlow using it.. good way to train muscle memory..get those handle passes smooth as.. hey hadlow is living proof..
You guys realise that it isnt some continous ring, you won't be able to spin twice in the same direction. Also you can't properly pop into tricks with the pull coming from your waist, it's all about the recoil which you get from unhooking.
well actually... the ring was originally made and patented by catapult/hadlow when hadlow used to ride for them
not that i would claim that craap hahaha.
using that for handlepasses is like... saying your a F1 driver wen u race go karts...
why would you want to learn something and not learn it the proper way, by taking out the difficulty of a handle pass it just becomes like a simple boost... no point to it, it doesnt feel good doing **** half arsed.. its like if you going to build your house, will you do it properly or will you half arse it and stick it together with sticky tape?
as for passes they look silly because they are not powered.. passes are all about going in fast and lit up not slow and lofty...
Yeh it's just like freestyle motocross - they practice new tricks by jumping into foam pits.
In the good old core days they just broke their necks when the trick didn't work
I am off to ski in the French Alps in December and i had some mega trouble to source a good old monoski and not be hip like all the snow boarders but i found one, a beaut salomon and i may even post a pic when i return in January!!!!!
You guys have no idea what you are missing on!!!!
Nah the waters hard - I'm soft.
But my point is really that FMX has progressed heaps since they got professional about their training and developed things like foam pits to practice new tricks with.
Heaps of other sports use training tools. I just don't think there's anything wrong with that
totally agree with saffer. Great training aid. Nothing is more uncool than nursing a blown out shoulder when the wind is cranking.
Pretty rich when snapper kiteboarders bag each other for things being too easy when kiteboarding is so easy. If you want to get hardcore get a pole hit the waves.
Trampolining is probably more extreme than kiting i would say. check out some crashes on youtube[}:)]
