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 Mon May 16, 05 7:46 am slingshot glide? |
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| Anyone heard or seen anything on this board yet?
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| Mon May 16, 05 7:58 am |
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| no rocker, wide, small fins & flexi
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colby
Since 23 Apr 2005
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| Mon May 16, 05 8:41 am |
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| Wide flat board made for going upwind in lightwind conditions...much easier to pull out and use than blowing up a 20M kite...and guessing it will compliment the SS Machine really well...very hard to sink this board!
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
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Couve / Hood
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| Mon May 16, 05 9:25 am |
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Real square tips too, which has been shown to really help going upwind.
I think its going to be a winner. Lots of 10knot days down in SPI for Doyle to get the lightwind equation dialed. Not sure how good its going to be when the wind comes up, probably like a skimboard... you keep it on the beach and grab it when its too light for your regular board, then switch back when the wind comes back up.
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bambam
Since 15 Mar 2005
760 Posts
Hood River
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| Mon May 16, 05 10:26 am |
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Ask and thou shall receive from the Bammer... Personally I think that the board has a lot more to do with how light you can go over the kite. Keep an eye out on the Slingshot website as I think more information is about to be posted. You can also see some of the Bam's "A" level stuff.
http://www.slingshotkiteboarding.com/water/lightwind.htm
Aaron was ripping pretty good on this 17.5m Machine/Glide set-up in basically a ducks fart of wind. On the outside he was busting pretty good air, but was too far away and it was too dark to even bother taking photographs.
Enjoy... Jon
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
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| Mon May 16, 05 10:35 am |
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Bam - good job getting on Slingy's website... but isn't that like sharing Russian spy photos with China? ... What?
You know what I mean. 
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| Mon May 16, 05 10:53 am |
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Not really...
Any advertisement is good advertisement for the Glide and Slingshot... Nothing you see here is going to be used by Slingshot, and the board really is a nice lightwind tool!
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| Mon May 16, 05 11:35 am |
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| any dimesions? width, length, rocker? doesn't look that big. and the flag in the background is looking like 12knots I'd say?
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| Mon May 16, 05 12:35 pm |
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| That flag is a poor wind meter... It is so light and tattered that it makes four knots look like a gale... Water looks pretty glassy...
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Portland Pete
Since 08 Mar 2005
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| Mon May 16, 05 1:35 pm |
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Here is the windgraph from that evening
10MPH was the max out there after 5PM
I couldnt make my 20M X3 and 48" skimboard work anymore
and Aaron was out doing tricks and jumps.
The glide kills it in light winds
Pete
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colby
Since 23 Apr 2005
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| Mon May 16, 05 1:39 pm |
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| same story on my 20M Nitro/132 SS board when Aaron was tacking upwind without effort
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| Mon May 16, 05 4:34 pm |
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| i was donw in south padre this winter when doyel was testing some prototypes of this board. i could stay up wind on a 15m fuel with a pulley bar and a skimboard, doyel was on a 17.5 machine and his proto and not able to stay upwind. i'm not saying that this board dosen't work well, but i think a skim board and a smaller faster kite works just as well or better.
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| Tue May 17, 05 9:36 pm |
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| no shit get a surfboard or a skim for wind that light
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