Nice looking kite and very usual looking kite. Every piece is like it has used to be: same segments, same panels, same struts, same LE, same AR, same wingtip shape, same arc, same bridle (or is there one or two more lines ?)... But hey, they have new "bladder caps" :D I see only two possibilities: 1...

If you look closely of those "inventions" you may think kite surfing industry is not the arena of the brightest engineering minds... You can also wonder: is it possible to patent anything? So nostalgic to see "velcro thing" which F-one stuck on for very late years, like beach toy valves. C'est bon! ...

8m Nemesis has 32cm LE circumference, so LE diameter is a bit over 10cm. So measuring flat uninflated would be: 16cm for the 8m nemesis. That is what I would call radically thin. I think its safe to say there is nothing big air oriented even approaching that today in production. Interesting. Yes, l...

Best nemesis was indeed a good kite design, with the today concept in mind, but it was not accepeted. At that time what pro riders wanted was totally different, they demanded heavy pulling C kites, very stable and powerfull wide loop, little depower. I tested once the best nemisis pro, (non cuben),...

I don’t think the force has a radically thinner le does it? Just “average” thin? Im guessing not as thin as the lf wow did, or brm clouds, for example. My super scientific measuring on the 9m leading edge from the centre while it was laying in my garage un-inflated: 1. Harlem Force - 22cm 2. '24 Or...

They pumped it with a normal pump - that means that the pressure was not higher than 15 PSI and that´s still pretty low compared to a bike for example (70 PSI) 8) But why this huge pressure is needed? If you are not very heavy guy usual LE - or even thin LE like in Nemesis - is rigid enough when in...

And it is not that certain kites become better if LE diameter is made smaller and pressure increased. It's not a new idea at all, about 15 years ago first thin LE kites (with partially dyneema LE) became available They pumped it with a normal pump - that means that the pressure was not higher than ...

Welding , for now still in combination with stitching, allows a higher pressure and smaller leading edge Really? I guess there is still main seam for LE because it is very difficult to understand how kite is put together and repaired without it. Seams between segments are much less strained and I d...

The whole thing if done like that is a downside, dangerous and losing that very thing Fireball was designed for, to have more smooth and flexible connection. Epoxy is not suitable for gluing those plastics, actually no glue is. POM and many other high strength plastics are "greasy" and can be glued ...

One more high-spec race kite, apparently a two-liner, has some kind of half-cell structures at the LE, and who knows what kind of spars inside. Nothing new or very interesting. Just another big-money sailing product waiting to get sold at a 90% discount when the next model arrives. It's crazy how se...