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My experience with the Rise, is that all the sizes cover the same wind range give or take a knot or two - you just select how powered you want to ride.

Always been a fan of the original Wipika Olry/Takoon Curver/Takoon Mong boards by Franz, would love to check out some of this new stuff, .

I've had 4 in 7 yrs...

Quadrifoil, Maui Magic, Prolimit, Ocean Rodeo

Each has been and improvement on the previous, although none wore out.

You're bang on about the Nokias though!

Other conspiracies....? Have kites really improved? really?

Your a hard case seano,,,,,,,, If you read the posts you would see that what I and others are saying is ,,,,,,,, we can use the power of the wave most of the time when wave riding,,,,,,we aren't saying we are riding like normal surfers do,,,,,we are saying that surfing can inspire more powerful rid...

Kevin Salter wrote:I switched to Eclipse kites 5months ago ,.

We know that already Kevin...

quite a few brands claim their 10m are as poweful as another's 12m...

can we just find out which brand it is that is making these crap underpowered 12m then at least we know what kite NOT to buy

What makes a good lightwind surfboard? I own a Freewave - I also used to own the UG 5'8 surfboard. Apparently the Freewave has the same outline and rocker as the surfboard, apart from the obvious different construction and volume, the freewave has a hard rail all over - the surfboard has standard so...

Endless forum pimping from brand reps, their aliases, fans and whores. Can't get enough of it.

I've put a lot of hours on my 2008 10m Rise over the past year and it's still in great shape, a long way from being worn out, i'll be going another 2 years at least before i'll be thinking about replacing it. 2nd hand gear is the way to go for learning, 2 kite combo is a better option too. the 10m 2...