FOAK: Kites

Didn't the Sting replace the Bullet? In which case, yes, pretty good for
a first kite, although older Bullets should be cheaper to find.

Flying on handles will be easier and more controllable than flying on a
bar. In either instance though, it can still yank you off your feet and
smack you into the ground and break bones, so know how to use the killers.

The Blade's a powerful kite, and definitely not for inexperienced folk.

heh, if you think the Sabre is any nicer than the Blade, you best sign up
to BUPA right now. I've a 9.5m Sabre and it pulls like a train, has no
qualms about lifting one into the air or looping it's way to oblivion.
Lovely kite, though I'm not using it much except when it's really too cold
to get into the water, or the winds too light for my other kites.

 

AldiLidl have some in at the mo' (or did when I looked on Sunday), 1.6m
deltas for a fiver or so - cheap enough that you can leave it behind or pass
it to a favourite niece / nephew when you've had enough

Dave H.
(the engineer formerly known as Homeless)

 

Mine too. But the point is that the 9.5m Sabre will get me going on my
landboard in less wind than my 14m SLE in the water. So if it's a really
light wind day, and the tide doesn't help, I could use the Sabre on the
beach - but of course at that stage, it's at home - I nearly always forget
to take it.

What I need is one of them hydrofoil boards.[1]

[1] http://www.carafinouk.com/