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Jom Gelborn
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Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:11 pm

Ya, I've always wanted a kite that looked like someone took a crap on. Seems real popular too. I guess thats why you see so many brown and piss colored kites.
 
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oooooooooh American humour, don't you just love it, y'all have a nice day 'y hear!!!!!!!! .......from the land of dodgy applique!!


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Martin wrote:
No, this is my nice looking nirvana...


Oh, very nice; not only tasteful earth/autumn colours, but assymetry as well! I presume it's a custom job?
 
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Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:39 am

it is one of the first nirvanas made , 1 of 8 in this colour scheme
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oooooooooh American humour, don't you just love it, y'all have a nice day 'y hear!!!!!!!! .......from the land of dodgy applique!!

Hey, i hate applique and I'm american. I hate Bush too. I'm anti gun and pro abortion. Legalize weed. pro environment. yadah yadah. There are A LOT of americans like me so please don't put us all in the nascar redneck group.
 
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Oh ya, and I'm not even fat!
 
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You don't represent them well John.
 
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Martin, how well does it fly and is it going to be your world cup kite. Are you going to get enough time on it to get 100% comfortable with it?
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I have been sitting back, waiting patiently, for a question worded just like that.
I have been wondering too, but I know last weekend the wind was wrong and this weekend?????
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Nice looking nirvana you've got there.

?? To my eye this kite bears more of a resemblance to an STX. Martin, you have flown these too, how does it compare?
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Morning boys and Juha :p

ok... i had 1 hour on this on friday....

Mr Phelps 10/10 top of the class, this kite is the kite the 2.1 should have been

ok, stock, top precision nice slots and 540s, ladders are ok bacspins are there , yoyos can me done mayet stylee,

move the wieght from the tail to the nose and this thing becomes a yoyo monster, one pop rolls in the blink of an eye

overall impression is very good, one or 2 things i would change build wise i nee another good session on it to play with the weighting and bridle to see if it is a nirvana killer...

but i will tell you now anyone loking for a modern freestler that cant afford french prices ... you give tony a call :D
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First pic I've seen of the Genesis vent proto:

http://www.drachenforum.net/galerie/det ... ge_id=4479

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looks perfect for those 25 mph winds in Herault
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Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:49 pm

move the wieght from the tail to the nose and this thing becomes a yoyo monster, one pop rolls in the blink of an eye


I've found moving weight to the nose in most kites slows flic flacs and the over rotated move into a wapdowap. Its a very fine balance when moving weights around to get the perfect combination of effects and can be very frustrating.
Hope you get those settings nailed
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jrharrold wrote:
I've found moving weight to the nose in most kites slows flic flacs and the over rotated move into a wapdowap.


Definitely. Slower flic-flacs (and pancakes, which affects 540's too), more difficult waps, more nervous fades.

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