old kites fabrics stretch, bridle's length changes, they lose their original qualities, and also olds kites have less performance.
new kites in same size, bandit more than so, has a better windrange in its upper end. people here use the new 9m bandits in crazy winds.

they probably waste so much time on theatrical movie production and prototypes they forget year after year to replace those god damn wheeled pulleys.

evo for cancun
switchblade in tulum
you can't use one of them in both places

Teabageppo wrote: Left a smile on our dials (three of us had the enduro and a dice up at the same time, swapped every 20 minutes or so).
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Thoughts on the endure compared to the dice?

i wonder if they stop upgrading it on a yearly basis with the new versioning. I think it's quite important to know the roadmap because buying a kite in its end of lifecycle affects the value/resale value very much.

Try a board with some more rocker and channels, not this 2006 design Monk. You'll love it a lot more, I just don't get the hype for the Monk or any of the Shinn boards for that matter, their board design is really oldschool while a lot of progress has been made in the past 5-6 years. Look at Axis, ...

The Shinn bronq looks like something made before 2010, no bottom profiling, single concave. I like the graphics but overall a rather 'aged' design philosophy. The Axis Limited looks like a modern freestyle/freeride twintip with a nice double concave and rail channeling. If I would have to pick I wo...

for 75kg you need 136 x 40,5 for the F-One,
that's what my friends ride and they love it.

which monk (year) are you comparing to?

Moved to a Pyro from Warrior, much more comfortable for me. spreader bar design does not hurt my ribs as it is much smaller and the harness almost never rides up unless I crash hard.
Also, I hate the clicker bar of mystic.
Leverlock is v.nice