isn't that just a glorified downloop?

yeah just a downloop.

Look carefully the trailing edge is pointing at the wind at one point in the move and he recovers from that .

HighzaKite said..
isn't that just a glorified downloop?

ColoColo said..
red thumbed the video

Redgy said..


yeah just a downloop.

Are you guys taking the piss your are you that completely uneducated you have no idea what this guy is doing?

It's a deadman turn where he drives the kite directly upwind and it completes a full 360 around him. There is a point where the kite is directly upwind and the rider is directly downwind.

This is a the worlds first filmed deadman turn on the water and it is freaken awesome.

Previously only a handful of landkiters have been able to do them on snow and or in kite buggies. I've done them in the buggy before and its a site to behold watching the kite go directly upwind and complete the loop.

kookaburrahz said...
Yawn... all you need is light wind

Go and do one then video it and upload it. I can guarantee you have zero chance of pulling it off.

Difficult!!!!
Impossible for twin tippers like myself.

It doesn't look like the kite goes into the wind.

More likely the kite turns on the same spot. Doesn't take anything away from the trick.

Looks like the kites going "forward" -however it's an optical illusion cause by the foil rider shooting in the opposite direction.

Hybrid_Z said..

Plummet

I've done them

Of course you have, you've done everything, you're incredible.

I haven't done them on the water.

Kamikuza said..

HighzaKite said..
isn't that just a glorified downloop?

Yes, the glory being the kite doing a horizontal 360.

The real trick ..how did he get a degree sign in the title?

HighzaKite said..

The real trick ..how did he get a degree sign in the title?

On a mac it's just option + shift + 8

Plummet said..

Hybrid_Z said..

Plummet

I've done them

Of course you have, you've done everything, you're incredible.

I haven't done them on the water.

quite fun on a buggy i know

but you can also do it easily in light wind just sine it hard and fast and as you bring it up wind spin like a shot putter with it. short lines help

Kozzie said..

Plummet said..

Hybrid_Z said..

Plummet

I've done them

Of course you have, you've done everything, you're incredible.

I haven't done them on the water.

quite fun on a buggy i know

but you can also do it easily in light wind just sine it hard and fast and as you bring it up wind spin like a shot putter with it. short lines help

I don't have enough beach for that madness. Each loop you shoot downwind. I run out of beach after one loop.