2010 Flexfoil Kite Buggy: Trials at Stockton Beach

[sandman78]

Stockton Beach this Saturday all welcome!

Tides are low 0.30 of a meter at 1.40 pm, Saturday Outlook: Wind: S/SE 10/20 knots. About as good as it gets.

Ill be right up the Birubi end just under the surf club from 10.30 you will be able to buggy from then onwards, if you don't have a 4wd, there is a carpark there and a 30 meter walk to put up your kite and you are away.

Be good to catch up with some flyers.

Jon and myself are both coming up, we have hired a semi trailer to bring the 2010 Flexfoil!
Bring all the tools to dial it in although from the short run I had in it at Wanda last week its going to be Ok to ride as is. We may drop the camber back a bit from where it is now thats all.

Really hoping I can get a run down to the wreck and back, have not done that for a few years now.
We hope to be there by 10 -10.30 too, packing the ute tonight and leaving around 7ish, so might see you on the road!

Room for one, maybe two people in the ute, call Kitepower today, if you want a lift up. Must be able to get gear to Kitepower by tonight (anytime), and meet at Kitepower at 7.30am'ish

Cya and

Goodwinds

Cheers
Steve

[justme32]

Most excellent Steve.

I will be leaving Sydney about the same time. will definitely be at Birubi by 10.30am

Cheers
Luke

[sandman78]

Quick report - it was excellent!
But the wind was a bit light peaking around 12 knots at various times IMO. Mostly around 8-10 knots ESE to E, but starting off SW.
With a super low tide we had tons of beach, and I was able to make it all the way down to the Cigna shipwreck, and enjoyed an average or around 45kph all the way back (approx 25klms one way).
Managed to get snagged and avoid being hooked by some drunk fisherman who had tangled line and hooks laid out behind their rods, as in upwind of them and their gear, grrr.

Lots of stupid people around, I mean really stupid as in one bunch in black xtrail softroader, 20 klms from the Anna bay entrance, driving in the water pulling friends on a boogie board, the car will be stuffed and if they did bog it then it would be a total loss, because the tide was on the way in.

Approx 12 or some people turned up, and there was a collection of buggies and landboards, as well as people just learning the ropes and static flying.
Luke was a bit underpowered, but still putting on an excellent demonstration of skill and control, love the backwards transition spins.
I was able to match Luke for speed and power as I had a 10M Flysurfer Speed2 and Luke had his 12M

The 2010 Flexfoil buggy is amazing, so comfortable, solid, smooth, and stable. It feels like it would be possible to do 100kph in this thing no problem and no mods.

I have set the buggy with no toe in, and a minor amount of negative camber, I'm guessing a few degrees, maybe 5 max. Turning circle is surprisingly tight for such a large buggy and at no time did I feel it was big and cumbersome (except dragging it to the acr over soft sand!)

Other large depower kites that we had and were performing well were the Manta1 10M and the Frenzy FX 9M, as well as a 4.9 Blade4. The Blade4, 4.9 performance made us think we should have had an 8.5 there as well?

Awesome day and looking forward to the May weekend!! Big thanks to Aaron and Jon for helping out with all the gear.

Cya

Steve

[cruzer901]

Even without the wind it was a great day.

Stoked to see some new faces arriving on the scene, the guy in the white T-shirt, who jumped in a buggy for the first time and proceeded to put up a 10 meter Manta, and go up and down the beach....... dude, your a natural, suggest you get some gear asap haven't seen that kind of natural talent for a long time. Congrats.

Steves 2010 Flexfoil is......... slick with the chrome mud guard? thats one way of describing it, it should have a coffee machine on the back so you can pull up behind it and make one heading down the beach. Nice looking buggy.

Aarons first effort with a depower basically went like this. He was flying down the beach, kite set and have never seen him go so fast. His first attempt at depower was a 10.5 Montana I am really stoked to see him using big powerful kites a fantastic effort.

Jon spent most the day on the VR2 Nova 9.5 m and practically used my own words once I had flown one a couple of times "geeze, I think i should have bought one of these instead" ha ha ha sweet kite, sweet ride.

For me, as steve said, the wind was a tad light, still had a great time but jumping was an uphill battle, an extra 3 knots would have had me sorted with some floaty hang time, next time

As for the other new people that showed up, I speak for all us regular flyers its awesome to see new people getting into the sport, and we are all really looking forward to the Kitepower Demo weekend in early may with the amount of people showing interest its going to be HUGE.

Cheers
Slater

ps...... I notice a trend towards much bigger kites lately which illustrates the fact that land kiting in general is producing much more experienced flyers opening up new doors on the kind of gear that is being used......

Supersize me! Nice guys