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Tom Stock 03-17-2008 11:21 AM

you can play too

toby wilson 03-17-2008 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Stock (Post 30630)
A late kite loop (at or after apex) is a sissy kite loop.... BUT if the kite isn't over your head on that sissy loop it will drill you... because you won't be under it when you land.

Well most of us don't even have the cajones to do sissy kiteloops!!! And when we do them on accident we get hurt, LOL!!!

Tom Stock 03-17-2008 11:37 AM

Aw c'mon Toby I bet you can do them no prob. Just pull with one hand on the way down. Feels the same as diving your kite as long as you do them late starting with kite > overhead <.

bryanleighty 03-17-2008 12:39 PM

toby..

kiteloops (small ones) are much easier than you would believe.

truly.. just jump and at the apex pull HARD on backhand.. i move my front hand to other side of bar so i dont whimp out half way thru..(painful)

a 3 foot jump is all you need..think small .. and really try to separate the jump motion from the loop motion.. think JUMP.. then think LOOP.. its when you pull the loop in the same motion as your jump that you get yanked ..

inferno 03-17-2008 12:48 PM

toby, dont be scared, guys like us (200+lbs) dont get yanked quite as bad as the feather wieghts who need to start drinking some protien shakes and pumping iron so they dont look like girly men :)










































J/K guys, you all know im just jealous that your main kite is 3m smaller then mine....

Tom Stock 03-17-2008 08:58 PM

Well... had a little kiteloop contest and Scott and I concluded it was a draw. We agreed we are both doing some pretty good powered kite loops. It sorta died but then picked up again as the sun went down and we got some real good ones when it gusted to solid 25. Have to admit I was impressed with Scotts loops. I was pretty happy when Scott confessed that i was doing them the same way he was cause his were pretty sick and I've never seen what mine look like (and I don't do them that way often).

I guess I thought Danny was doing the big ones but it seems thing are not what I once thought. Danny has been downgraded.

Broke my board... so I guess it is not unbreakable (but what is).

Skyway Scott 03-17-2008 09:05 PM

That was sort of funny doing them out in the dark.
Yeah, I thought Danny's looked pretty insane at first.
But not after what I just saw tonight. :)

inferno 03-17-2008 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Stock (Post 30656)

I guess I thought Danny was doing the big ones but it seems thing are not what I once thought. Danny has been downgraded.

thats just wrong.....

Tom Stock 03-17-2008 10:21 PM

LOL Danny we're messin' with ya. Sorta.

Skyway Scott 03-18-2008 12:18 AM

Definitely just messing around.
You and I both know the whole reason I ever even tried a loop at height was because you have been doing them awhile and then egging me on. The first time I saw you do one at Lassing I was totally floored.
I saw you do at least ten of them and waited at least 3 months until I even tried one. I waited until I saw you get close and also til I saw you wouldn't snap in half (I thought you would, to be honest). I then just mimicked you exactly.
That's not very hard to do.
It's pretty obvious who already "won" our 3 way bet, by simply being first :)


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