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Firewire Kiteboards - Felix Pivec Vid.

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Created by marty72 > 9 months ago, 15 Feb 2010
marty72
QLD, 298 posts
15 Feb 2010 7:30AM
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kyteryder
NSW, 692 posts
15 Feb 2010 8:41AM
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Top unstrapped video. Makes me want to go out and get off my twinny.

Top stuff. - Good promo video as well

KR

sammyd
QLD, 101 posts
15 Feb 2010 9:11AM
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He needs a good haircut and needs to stay on the wave -

Going out on the flat and then banging a lip looks spectacular - but id rather watch a more surfing approach -

Ioz
WA, 495 posts
15 Feb 2010 9:35AM
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Nice Vid,

I like his style and versatility,

Unstrapped on the waves where it suits and then strapped when he wants to hit it big and bust out.

Going frontside on the lefts and then frontside on the rights,

thats got to be the ultimate if you really have all the skills ......

to adjust your riding and technique, to best suit the waves on the day - and then make it look like thats the way you ride all the time.

and then to do this for most of us, is such a challenge that the sport will never get boring as you are always trying to master that new skill.

loco4olas
NSW, 1525 posts
15 Feb 2010 3:33PM
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Good stuff-shame the boards are so ridiculously expensive-that 511, would make a great travel board for me, combining a surfboard and kite surfboard.

niall barrett
WA, 248 posts
15 Feb 2010 4:19PM
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Felix rips........ strapped or unstrapped ..........and he carries everything with a beautiful style and flow which only video and not still photos can show us.
He had dedicated the last decade of his life to one crazy obsessional idea which is surfing waves with a kite as best he can, and it shows.

It is shame some criticise his style as not 'surfing' enough, well 2 points:
Firstly feel free to criticise when you can ride better than him, otherwise shut up. Secondly, I think that is exactly how Mick Fanning or Parko would ride if you put a kite in their hands, and the skills to use it. Power + Speed has made them the best surfers in the world, give them more and they would lap it up.

With Kite-surfing, Speed and power is there on tap so use it..........or can you handle it? The better the surfer the more they look like kiters in the waves. No-one should try and dumbdown kiting because they reckon it doesnt look like surfing enough. In my experience that leads to a lot of guys parking their kite, stalling in a poo-stance with their heads stuck under the white water ........then claiming they got barrelled. In anyone books that looks like s--t. This is Kite-surfing not surfing.

Paul1
QLD, 1011 posts
15 Feb 2010 7:04PM
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sammyd said...

He needs a good haircut and needs to stay on the wave -

Going out on the flat and then banging a lip looks spectacular - but id rather watch a more surfing approach -




Maybe you should watch Kelly Slater drawing out his bottom turns out to the flats then smashing the lip, its one of the hardest things to do surfing without a kite but the likes of Parko, Irons and Fanning do it with ease, I think your criticism is a little dumb.

marty72
QLD, 298 posts
15 Feb 2010 7:59PM
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sammyd said...

He needs a good haircut and needs to stay on the wave -

Going out on the flat and then banging a lip looks spectacular - but id rather watch a more surfing approach -



If you ever watch really powerful surfers like Occy surf waves such as Bells or J-bay you'd see them come right out the front onto the flats and then bottom turn straight up into the lip, you need extra speed and power to do that. Not surfing approach? - I guess COs such as Billabong and Firewire that sponsor Felix disagree!
Seriously STFU, stick to commenting on peoples haircuts on http://www.prohaircut.com/talk/ you'll never be able to ride anywhere near Felix's level, no matter how many Ben Wilson wave-riding clinics you go to!

marty72
QLD, 298 posts
15 Feb 2010 8:12PM
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loco4olas said...

Good stuff-shame the boards are so ridiculously expensive-that 511, would make a great travel board for me, combining a surfboard and kite surfboard.

Well you pay for what you get, or you can get a couple of seconds on sale for $800 from the factory, reinforce them and they work almost as good!

TurtleHunter
WA, 1675 posts
15 Feb 2010 7:35PM
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nothing worse than ****ty little waves and someone sitting on the shoulder if only I had a firewire surfboard

roachy
NSW, 391 posts
16 Feb 2010 8:29AM
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He deadset rips he is taking kitesurfing to where it should be going what surfers cant do, we have the speed lets use it and abuse it , those bottom turns are sic who wouldnt want to kite like felix. Id give my right nut, i heard you can get replacements !

crabs
18 posts
16 Feb 2010 12:43PM
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niall barrett said...

...The better the surfer the more they look like kiters in the waves...


LOL - kiter arrogance at its best

BoDiddly
VIC, 622 posts
18 Feb 2010 4:20PM
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Nice!
Can't wait to get just a litle better on my surfboard and get into some swell.
I was quite suprised with how easy it was to stay on the board without straps (this is on flat water by the way!) I'm sure swell will be heaps different!

Great vid.

sunseeker
QLD, 1203 posts
18 Feb 2010 6:23PM
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BoDiddly said...

Nice!
Can't wait to get just a litle better on my surfboard and get into some swell.
I was quite suprised with how easy it was to stay on the board without straps (this is on flat water by the way!) I'm sure swell will be heaps different!

Great vid.


Swell is not too bad, it's the chop that makes it hard

getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
18 Feb 2010 5:51PM
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Hubba hubba. Noice vid.

I ride twinnies in the surf (mush) but that is deluxe to watch.

Good to see some longer sequences/sections as anyone can look good smashing one lip, then - cut the vid - goin nowhere afterwards. Not so here.

Speed, power, lots of spray and... kn fun like all kiting (SB/Twinny or otherwise) should be.

hargs
QLD, 634 posts
18 Feb 2010 11:59PM
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Yep he's going off



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