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My experience: I started powerkiting in 2000 and have owned a large variety of different types of power kites over the years, i.e. depower kites, LEI`s, racekites, Arcs, single skin kites, two liner power kites, and even flown parachutes as kites. Skills have just been on the mountain board and buggy, never kite surfed or [...]
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My mission was to find a cheap board on which to learn to landboard on. I had been static flying for about 10 months before I got this board. This is a basic and cheap board its spec is: * Freestyle deck, overall length 97cm, 89cm (laminated maple) deck. * Full coverage grip tape. * [...]
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Having just got into kiting, the natural progression from flying had to be for me, landboarding. So after many hours of internet use and abuse I opted for the bluearth C series tribal. Now as a first board (its advertised as intermediate to expert) it is cheap enough, I paid less than £100 for mine [...]
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About 18 months ago i got this board as my first flyboard. As a beginner i looked around for a sturdy board that would allow me to learn the “delicate art” of flyboarding. In these 18 months the board has been used on average 2 times a week, and always at the beach. Most of [...]
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I have been riding the scrub Photon for seven months now, both with and without a kite, and it has performed beyond my expectations. As an entry level board it is lightweight, fairly maneuverable and won’t break the bank as you can pick one up for less than £100. The limited pop and absence of [...]
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well, what can i say about this board? After owning it for a little more than 9 months now i feel that i have had a good use of it before reviewing it. Firstly: The Deck The deck is of a fibreglass and maple composite build with a fair amount of flex and pop on [...]
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Hello all, I am writing a review on my Radsail R1 mountain board, as you may know the R1 range underwent a design change and 3 emerged from it, the R1, R2 AND R3. Now I bought the R1 because it doesn’t weigh much, and its fairly cheap and since I was only a beginner [...]
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I have been flying my 5 meter kite static for a long time now, so as I started to want to push myself, I decided to buy a mountain board for landboarding. Being as I was on a low budget (I’m always on a low budget ) I needed something that was cheap but not [...]
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After spending a long time reading up on the web I decided that I was going to look for a board that would fit certain criteria 1 Must be able to cope with my weight of 16.5 stone 2 Must be able to be fine tuned 3 Must be able to look nice and not [...]
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Can I firstly say that I used this board before I got into Kiting and so i only used it at a downhill mountainboard course Called Out To Grass near malvern in herefordshire. This was my first mountainboard that I chose because I found it hard to see any problems highlighted in reviews of the [...]
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