The Wap Doo Wap is one of my favorite tricks! In my opinion one of the most beautiful tricks together with 540s and Taz. Thanks for this entertaining short video Carlo. 🤙🏼
Thanks! Been doing Waps more lately. Certainly a very nice trick to combine in freestyle but the deep backflip kites won’t do them as nicely compared to the older kites from the mid 2000’s.
The Cesium is a mid sized freestyle kite by french manufacturer l'Atelier Kites that was released in 2005. Frame is Skyshark P200 for the LS and 6 mm pultruded carbon for US, LE and Spine with Icarex sail. A nylon "Access" version and the ultralight "Continental" were also available. The conditions at Meijendel beach were perfect for fades and pitch tricks like Wap Doo Waps. Thanks Ronald van Zijl for providing the kite to try and enjoy!
More info about the Cesium here:
Cesium Continental video:
An was für Leinen (länge) fliegt ihr eure Escaps?
35 meter/40dAn
Some nice ones again! Added the pics to builds page:
The 6th round of 'PILOT' feature Ronald, Fred, André, and Lars who all perform the Wap Doo Wap trick at the Burgh Haamstede beach. See description and how to vote below:
Wap Doo Wap
The WAP DOO WAP is initiated from a FADE. The kite is then flared 360° on the pitch axis so that the belly is up again and the nose points towards the pilot but the lines are now over the trailing edge and underneath the kite. The kite is spun either 360° or 540°. The kite should exit the trick vertically – nose down for a 360° rotation (vertical descent, no FADE), nose-up for a 540° rotation (vertically upwards).
Wind: Light to Moderate
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Here's a recap of the 2022 Midsummer Bootcamp in Burgh Haamstede, Zeeland. Great wind, nice weather and good friends make for yet another epic edition. Footage and edit by Lars Fakkeldij.
This Le Quartz from the belgian designer Christian Derefat was built in 2009 using the step-by-step building guide from Tom (see link below). Still a very capable trick kite and a lot of fun to fly.
This kite is framed in 5pt LS and 6mm LE, US, spine. I've added rollbars back in the day which suit the kite quite well since it's so pitchy. Flown on a beautiful morning at Meijendel beach with some company of "The Law". Enjoy!
Plans and building guide:
http://tom.tweelijner.be/
OSTK Episode 1:
https://kareloh.com/ickytv_wp/…/2015/05/29/hallo-wereld/
Brought the Assassin UL by MugenKites on a bikeride to the Katwijk Skatepark. Mopped the wet miniramp and had to wait an hour to skate it. Plenty of time to take advantage of the nice seabreeze on a nice low tide sandbar in the Oude Rijn estuary. Feet in the water: bliss.
Take a look at the MugenKites website for some awesome kites:
https://mugenkites.com/
I didn't build my 90Three SUL myself but I think there are hollow ferrules used for the LE and LS. Might be a few grams lighter too.
Having the extra weight of the standoffs in this part of the kite also adds to the balance for tricks.
In my experience 2 mm gfk is too soft for use in standoffs. But if it works for you, go for it. Inland/mountain wind can be very thin indeed. You might need some sort of XUL version of the kite like Rolf did.
Maybe it's nice if this topic was combined with the bauplan topic:
Bauplan: 90Three, 90Nine, 100Sixteen
The Mini Vented is basically a 90Nine standard but with 2 small vents added in each wing built by Krijn Hemminga. It can handle quite a bit more wind compared to the standard version while retaining the low pull flight characteristics. The footage for this little edit was shot during a bike trip in Walcheren, Zeeland at the Oostkapelle beach. Enjoy!
More info about the 90Nine and the 90Three family of Open Source Trickkites:
https://www.kareloh.com/kite-plans/90three-family/
Another BadAss SUL video:
Level One BadAss Super Ultralight Egmond Aan Zee | IckyTV
Had a very nice short session with the Level One BadAss super ultralight at Egmond aan Zee beach just before the wind picked up a few notches. The little plateau in front of the the beach cabins was a fun target to do tipstands/spikes on. Made a little edit of the few minutes of footage i shot. Enjoy!
After a two year hiatus because of obvious reasons it was time to have a Tricksparty weekend in the beach villa in Zeebrugge, Belgium once again. Great weather, all sorts of wind including lab-grade sea wind and a lot of good friends and bad jokes. There might have been a few cups of coffee, tea and some beers involved as well. We had a blast. Thanks to everybody who made an effort to be there and contribute. Here's a 10 minute impression. Enjoy!
Results of the 2 day competion can be found here:
http://belgium.tricksparty.info/index.php/tricks-party-2022
Virtual Freestyle is a video based online international dual line freestyle/trick kite competition in which the competitors are the judges as well.
Skill/level is not an issue. Everybody is free to enter en there are some very nice prices donated. Some of the prices are awarded randomly across all entrants.
Closing date is 31 May 2022.
Link to the VF website:
http://vf.kiteclique.com/index.php
How to enter:
http://vf.kiteclique.com/about-vf/how-to-enter
Competition rules:
http://vf.kiteclique.com/about-vf/competition-rules
Prices for this round:
The 90Nine is the bigger brother of the 90Three open source trickkite (239cm width). This ultralight version (Nitro Lite rods) has small vents in the sail which make it a bit more stable in bumpy wind without sacrificing trickability. This was shot at the gorgeous Schouwen north beach of Burgh-Haamstede, Zeeland. Lines: 25dAn, 35 meter.
More info and plans the 90Nine and 90Three family here:
https://www.kareloh.com/kite-plans/90three-family/
A low wind sunset session with the Lazarus Mini sportkite by MugenKites at Oostvoorne beach. This scaled down version of the Lazarus open source trickkite is framed in all pultruded carbon rods and it has quite a remarkable windrange and a good frontflip for Crazy Copter combinations. Gabor kindly lend me this kite to try and enjoy. Thanks!
You can find out more about the Lazarus kite and plans here:
https://www.kareloh.com/kite-plans/mugen-kites-lazarus/
MugenKites website:
https://mugenkites.com/
The plans for the 70Eight are now published. This is the 190cm wingspan version of the 90Three.
You can find the plans here:
https://www.kareloh.com/kite-p…ree-family/70eight-plans/
Link to video:
