ok kite for a beginner?

If what you say is true and you are a beginner, then you should read some of the post elsewhere on this forum concerning the purchase of a power / traction kite for the first time. But if your anything like I was in my youth; you won’t. In my youth I would have thought it was the best kite for a beginner.

In my youth I would have recomended that along with the kite you should purchase a seat harness and make sure to wear it the first time you fly your new kite. Don’t bother with the purchase of a helmet, elbow pads, kneepads, or any other possible items that might be considered a safety item. Cost too much and you wouldn’t be able to afford the kite.

I’d wouldn’t have waited for low winds either; I’d get at it regardless of the speed of the wind after all, how are you suppose to know how fast the winds are. If the trees are not bending over how bad could it be.

Then it’s off to a major parking lot with lots of traffic, near the edge of a cactus field that is under some high voltage wires leading to a nuclear plant.

Well I have experience now, I am older also and maybe wiser too, so when it comes to recommendations for your first kite; I am wrong about the previous sentence.

If you buy that kite, your first and maybe last flight should be nearer the parking lot of your local county hospital because it will not take long to get you into the emergency room.

Tigger, what you are actually saying is that with this kite I`ll end up damaging myslelf badly?!? Is it too powerful?
Pablo, I`m 185 tall and my weight is about 78 kg, so I`m tall and slim. And I`m really a beginner. Never been kiting before. Don`t know anything about winds and flying abilities. But I live on the south west coast of Norway with the best kiting eviroments in Norway. Beautiful, big and windy beaches. I don`t have any ambitions of becoming a master of fancy jumping. Just want the thrill of beeing able to manage the kite...

:saint:I am sorry Trond if you have taken me the wrong way; I am a bit of a smart ass and tend to respond to questions with a bit of tongue in cheek. I know and I realized that you asked the question for a reason. But you have to remember, in this or any forum, the question is yours the answers are ours. Relax, take a pill, enjoy, have fun with it. You may learn a thing or two in the process.

Although I as well as everyone else that post here want you to take our sport very seriously, you should not necessarily take any of us to seriously except when it comes to Safety. The number one thing to remember is Safety the number two, three, four, five, etc. is fun. If you only think of the fun part your going to get hurt and that is not fun. As you look around on this site, the answer to almost any questions can and often will be answered. Sometime (hell, most of the time) they will be tongue in cheek answers.

It does not matter what you hit, earth, water or snow (which is water on earth mixed) when you do something incorrect (and you will), you are going to get hurt with a kite that size even with experience. There are many variables to think about, when deciding which kite to buy and or fly on any particular day. You can find them all here somewhere, some are: Wind speeds, experience, kite sizes, experience, surface, experience and last but not least, experience.