I Kited This 17 Year Old Kite 

What about shredding an old two-line-kite 🤔 ? That would be another level 🤩

I remember going from a 2001 2-line Naish AR 3.5 to a 2002 four line Naish X2 I could not believe the improvements. It felt so good at the time. Every year the kites improved so much, it was incredible :)!

Now imagine somebody will do similar video in 17 years about some of the newest kites we’ve got today

still have north rhino 2... 20 m2... flies like a caravan .... with a truck attached, but... it can also pull a boat, that´s nice

The new bar's make a big difference with older kites

Wouldnt it just be lengthening the steering lines a bit? @2:21 the steeringlines seem to be shortened at the bar. Secondly, pulling the depower strap would also quickly avoid backstall. My experience is that some old C-kites are very nice for wakestyle, but sometimes lack the slack in the lines after the pop, compared to newer generation kites

Pull a trimer until it stops backstalling while fully sheeted in. You can trim any kite like this, also when you know how much trimer you shoul use to trim it you can add extenders on stearing lines.

I started kiting in 2001, I still have and ride, very often, having a lot of fun, 2005 Slingshot Fuel in 7, 9 and 11 meters. The only problem that I have are the blatters losing the inlets The front lines of that kite are stretching on flight, that's why is stalling.

I started kiting 2000 and still have my 1st kite in the basement. It is a Cabrinha black tip 11,8 with a hand leash. To improve that beast I made some kite poles into the tip ends and even installed a servo steering with pulleys which helps a lot to lower the steering power of this truck. I also made new depower lines like Fone have had it later 🤣

How about a series about the differences in technologies over the last decade the old vs the new that will be amazing to watch

makes you appreciate those early kiters that were shredding it and inventing new tricks on those kites

I rode this thing back in the day and for that time it was an awesome freestyle kite! Maybe if you fly it on your current 5line bar and do some freestyle on it, it will work a bit better. This thing originates from 05/06 and back then people where not boosting, but only doing freestyle (since that was the only discipline for competition riding PKRA).

I acquired an old 19 meter Cabrinha with BATTENS ! It's stained but otherwise in good shape from being in storage. Probably the most dangerous kite around. I've not set it up, no bar came with it. It's a museum piece.

I remember Hadlow kitelooping the old Felxifoil Strike 7m. That thing at the time turned super quick and was an amazing kite, but it would be scraping the water on the way around. He used to land with the loudest SLAP on the water. Wakeboard and bindings. Crazy.

17 years ago I took my first kitelessons at Lake Silvaplana, also at the age of 14. I remember this kite, most riders had it in 18 m² sizes up there. My first kite was a RRD Type Wave in 15 m² then, it's still in my basement, I think I have to give it a try someday. 🤙

Hi Ben, it was a real pleasure to meet you at the fort of porto botte

I was a little sceptical of buying an old kite but after i saw the makeshift equipment the early kitesurfers were using i am ok with having an older kite

I 've got 2006 North Torch :D it nearly killed me when i started kiting 10-11 years ago. I gave it another try last year and it was pretty wild too :D :D

I found an old 2004 cabrina nitro in the trash a year ago. it inflated but when i tried to kitesurf with it the inflate delaminated.... Now i just need some spare time to repair it and see if i can get it flying again! cant wait.

yeah man! you need shorter depower (or longer steering lines). more wind. turning will be dog slow (compared to new gen kites!!

every year kite manufacturer : "all new design and materials for 202X" yeah dude same ol piece of cloth

I’m still using a Core GT 13,5 from 2010 with a 2016 core sensor 2 bar and it works great! Still being a great kite!

Haha! Nice one Ben! Reminds me of that time I tried a Naish AR5. That thing had a massive bar, 80cm or something like that. Just a single slim hole in the bar for the center lines so you couldn't pull or push the bar while even slightly steering. (Not that it would have changed anything) but the scariest thing was the "safety". Just a simple wristleash that was attached to one of the steering lines further away. And to release yourself, you had to unhook from the chickenloop, after that, the kite just lands in the deathloop like safety, gorgeous... 😂

Yeah!!! I was waiting for it!!! Vintage kitesurfing!!!

You should try setting it up with a newer bar, i want to see that :)

I start whith a fone starter 7m :) 2000 I think 🤔 I still have a naish x4 20 m no depower, no upwind, vert tricky to ride ;)

Im actually still rocking a 15m slingshot fuel from 2005, works very well actually. It is however a lot riskier and demanding to kite with.

Nice! Und jetzt noch mal bitte ein Board von Anfang 2000er testen ?! 😅

That looks like the kite I first started on..

wow! What a nice video idea! 😍 how about removing the line extension and making another video? 🤩

Wish I had some of them old flexi foil fusions and hadlow pros from back in the day. The kites I had from 2007 never lasted more than 3 years materials wise. Line and canopy stretch was shocking, kites were alot cheaper thou.

KITE MAN! HELL YEAH!!!

ich hätte dir in der Region noch einen North C Kite von 2006 wenn du willst

I had the first airush atv kite and a 16 mtr lift. Wrist leash lol

Geil, ich habe auch einen fast nicht geflogen Unit im Keller

Your double rotations look like 80% of my normal jumps lol 😝

The average kitesurfer was waaay better 17 years ago than today. Backstalling? Simple - we depowered before unhooking.

I still have in my garage old Wipika 11m, this was bad ass, even when kite was lying on the ground ,sometimes could just start by his own, it was crazy !!! I will make movie also when flying on old Wipika 😂😜😜

Ich habe mir 2011 das Kiten selber beigebracht und mein erster Kite war ein 14er North Vegas von 2004 - ich frage mich oft noch wie ich das damals nur überlebt habe😂

It’s not about the skills, it’s about the material 🫣🤣

Ab 20Knoten hole ich immer meinen Lieblingskite raus... Einen 8ter Switchblade von 2009

not an old kite, its got a one pump system;) I assume, the front lines were simply too long.

I have a 2019 slingshot RPM 12 meter and to me it looks like it flys like that one. It turns slow and i have a hard time getting it to pull me after i get up.

The kite is even older than I am😂

I had the exact same one....

I still have my very first kite. 2004 Naish Boxer 14m, zero depower.

I think it was out of tune for some reason. I fly Vegas 5 line mostly and it makes a huge difference when one line is stretched. The kite behaves much like what you experienced when this is the case. I'll bet that with proper bar tuning, a kite that holds air and some more time with it you could shred with the old dinosaur. :)

This is Como right? It's really strange for me looking at all those mountains on both sides and seeing that the wind is somewhat consistent and not crazy gusty :/

where is this spot, looks so majestic!

:-D But you as a pro rider, you made it - thumbs up. I had a grin all the time, nice.

Hiho. Kannst du mir kurz sagen wie der Spot heißt? Welcher See ist das ? Coma?

Get a Wipika kite or a 1st gen RRD 😁

Yeaaaaaa , nice video , allways is funny regress the beginning , maybe the best way to compare the Evolution of kites, I try remmeber It when I pay for a new one kite. I like the mix contents of your videos. See you Next monday 💪💪😃

Where is it?

Still going strong 😎😎👍👍

Niceee! Und gude Mucke 😁👌

It looks amazing 🤩 By the way, any new wingfoil vlog coming ? looking forward to see it :)>>>>

Is Carved the same company that makes carbon boards nowdays? :)

BRah, you wanna impress? Get a Wipika Airblast then show us.

where is lake ?

AWESOMEEEE!!!

Nice!! :D

Oh cool, reminds me of this video from a couple of years ago ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-863KiZG-uvE.html

Der muss mit nem tiefen V geflogen werden! Mit nem North SetUp fliegt der nicht so wie der soll....

Why are you talking English and not German ???

Bitte sprecht deutsch… Sorry aber is eben deine Sprache 😊

I mean honestly you just didn't think about it, you didn't have any other options and these were pretty good compared to what we learned on, like *stacked Peter Lynn arcs* philipbchase.com/assets/documents/arc_setup_faq/The%20Peter%20Lynn%20ARC%20set-up%20FAQ_files/3stack.jpg with a wichard shackle as a QR. It always makes me laugh the folk who complain about the safety systems these days 😂